Fasanmi: Curtain Closes on a Man of Integrity
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, in this tribute, paid an emotional and overwhelming honour to the late Afenifere leader, Chief Ayorinde Fasanmi, who passed on recently
He joins three other prominent Ekiti icons, who recently went the way of the ancestors: Evangelist Bamidele Isola Olumilua, Pa SK Babalola and Sir Oluremi Omotoso. In the space of three months, Ekiti has lost some of our most invaluable elders and statesmen. He passed out in 1946 and got admitted into the School of Pharmacy, Yaba in 1947. He finished his training in Pharmacy in 1951 and was posted to Osogbo and had since then made the town his home.
He was a true Ekiti man, an unrepentant Awoist, a progressive politician of note and a veteran democratic activist. Since he joined the Action Group and became the Chairman of the Youth Association in the 1950s, where he worked with other notable progressive youths of his time such as Chief Soji Odunjo, Sikiru Shitta-Bay, Prof, Banji Akintoye, Prof.
Even though Omoboriowo did not support his previous effort in 1978, he volunteered to serve as the chief campaigner for Chief Akin Omoboriowo in his determination to ensure an Ekiti man was governor in 1983. He played an important role in the transformation of AC to ACN and APC in its evolutionary curves. Until his death, he was the Leader of Afenifere , which espouses socio-political interest of the Yoruba people.
One event that further bore eloquent testimony to his high integrity quotient was the 1994 Constitutional Conference debacle, when the Yoruba nation spoke with one voice that all Yoruba delegates serving in the Constitutional Conference of Gen. Abacha, should return home. As a token of appreciation to his contribution to the development of Ekiti, Nigeria and humanity, and particularly for being an embodiment of the finest Ekiti values, my government named one of the newly created secondary schools after him. I am glad we did this during his lifetime.
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