OPC FOUNDER, DR FASHEUN DIES AT 83
Joseph Omoniyi
Founder of Odua Peoples Congress, OPC, Dr. Frederick Fasehun had died at the age of 83.
Reports indicated that Fasehun died in the early hours of Saturday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH Ikeja after a brief illness.
It was learnt that the octogenarian was admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital on Tuesday where he remained until his demise.
Fasehun’s spokesman, Mr. Adeoye Jolaosho confirmed the death of the late OPC founder;
“It is true, baba died this morning at the ICU in LASUTH, Ikeja,” he said.
The Nigerian medical doctor, who was born in Ondo City, founded the OPC, a Yoruba-based organization formed to actualize the annulled mandate of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, a Yoruba who won the presidential election of 12 June 1993 but was barred from office.
Fasehun was imprisoned for 19 months from December 1996 to June 1998 during the military rule of Sani Abacha, only ending 18 days after Abacha’s death.
Fasehun was born in Ondo Town, Ondo State in 1935.
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