BREAKING: Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, is dead
The Spokesman of pan-Yoruba socio-political group ‘Afenifere’, Yinka Odumakin, is dead.
Source confirmed that Odumakin died of complications from COVID-19.
Newsflash Nigeria gathered that the activist had been on ventilator at a treatment centre in Lagos.
Mr Odumakin had serious underlining conditions including diabetes, lung-related issues and a mild stroke first suffered a few years ago.
“He had lung surgery before he was put on a ventilator.
His case took a turn for the worse last week, with doctors concluding he had few days left,” a source told this online newspaper.
His wife and fellow activist Joe Okei-Odumakin had just been informed of the death shortly before the filing of this report.
He was 56 years old.
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