May 14, 2026

Ayo Fasanmi, Leader of Afenifere, is dead

By Muhammad A. Aliyu

Leader of the Yoruba Socio-Cultural Group, Egbe Afenifere (ILOSIWAJU YORUBA), Senator Ayo Fasanmi is dead.

He died at the age of 94 years.

According to a statement signed by his son, Folabi Fasanmi, he passed on peacefully in Osogbo on Wednesday night.

He stated that burial arrangements will be announced by his immediate family in conjunction with his political associates and the South West Governors.

The Second Republic Senator was until his death, a leader of the Yoruba Socio-Cultural Group, Egbe Afenifere (ILOSIWAJU YORUBA) and a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, (APC).

Fasanmi was born on 25th September 1925.

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