By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
Exactly one week after news of his death first broke in the media, which turned out to be false, the immediate past governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, died on Thursday.
He was said to have died of COVID-19 complications at First Cardiology Specialist Hospital, Lagos. He was 70.
News of his death broke last Thursday. But his media aide, Bolaji Tunji, in a telephone discussion with TheNiche said it was false.
He was said to have been in the intensive care unit of the First Cardiologist hospital where he reportedly slipped into coma on June 8. But when TheNiche reached out to Tunji to confirm the story, he said it was false.
“My oga is still alive. He is not dead,” he said last Thursday night.
But a source close to the former governor told TheNiche this evening that Ajimobi breathed his last at about 4 pm.
Oyo House of Representatives member, Akin Alabi, also tweeted: “Forever in my heart.”
Ajimobi was the first Oyo governor to win a second term in office and governed between 2011 and 2019.