Kogi guber candidate, Rotimi Obadofin is dead

A former governorship candidate in
Kogi State and a front line Afenifere
member, Prince Rotimi Obadofin is
dead.
Obadofin, who hailed from Aiyegunle
Gbede, in Ijumu Local Government
area of Kogi State was one time
governorship candidate of the defunct
Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN,
before it merged into the All
Progressives Congress, APC.
Obadofin who was said to have died in
Oshogbo, Osun State on Thursday
night from ruptured appendix also
contested the governorship ticket of
APC in last year’s election but lost the
ticket to late Prince Abubakar Audu.
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 in a statement signed by his Chief
Press Secretary, Kingsley Fanwo,
described the late Obadofin as 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