Former Ogun Assembly deputy speaker, Tokunbo Oshin, dies at 66
By Jeffrey Agbo
Former Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Tokunbo Oshin, has died.
The 66-year-old former lecturer at Tai Solarin College of Education, now Tai Solarin University of Education, died in Sagamu on Saturday night after a brief illness, according to Ogun State Commissioner for Community Development and Cooperatives, Ademola Balogun.
Speaking with PUNCH on Sunday, Balogun said, “Hon Oshin is dead. He was said to have died on Saturday at a private hospital in Sagamu. He should be around 66 years old. It’s a big loss to our great party, the All Progressives Congress, and Ijebu Igbo town, where we both came from. May his soul rest in peace.”
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Oshin was the Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly between 2003 and 2007 and was a member representing the Ijebu North State constituency 1 between 2007 and 2011.
He ventured into private business in 2008 as a small-scale petroleum products marketer with the brand name Zipest Ventures Limited, owner of Zipest Filling Stations in Ijebu-Ode, Ijebu-Igbo, Ago Iwoye, and until recently, Ibadan.
He represented the South West on the Board of the Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) and some occasions acted as the Board Chairman between 2018 and 2022. He was at various times a member of Ogun State University, now Olabisi Onabanjo University, and Ogun State.