A former governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kogi State, Rotimi Obadofin, has been reported dead.
Obadofin was said to have died on Thursday in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, from a ruptured appendix.
The deceased contested the governorship ticket of APC in last year’s election but lost the ticket to, Abubakar Audu, who died shortly after the election was declared inconclusive.
Obadofin, who hailed from Aiyegunle Gbede, in Ijumu Local Government area of Kogi State, was also one time gubernatorial candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, which merged with other political parties to form the APC.
Meanwhile, the governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has expressed shock over the death of Obadofin, whom he (Bello) described as a ‘frontline progressive’ who displayed exemplary zeal for the actualization of civil rule in Nigeria.
Bello said in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Kingsley Fanwo, that Obadofin was a “Pragmatic democrat, fiery human right defender and a believer in the core ethos of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-cultural group that wrestled power from khakistocrats and returned the nation to representative democracy.”
He sympathized with the family and prayed God to grant them the fortitude to bear their huge loss.
