The pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has refuted the news of Pa Ayo Adebanjo’s passing. According to Chief Sola Ebiseni, the Secretary General of the group, Pa Adebanjo is in good health and spirits.
In a statement he issued, Ebiseni clarified that there was a mix-up, as Adebanjo was erroneously identified with Professor Ayo Banjo, a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, who sadly passed away at the age of 90, as reported on Friday.
According to Ebiseni: “Baba (Adebanjo) is alive. The attention of the Afenifere, apex Yoruba Socio-Political Organisation has been drawn to a statement making the rounds, particularly in the media, that our leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo is dead.
“Afenifere wishes to say that Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Leader of the Afenifere, whose 96th birthday was celebrated recently, is alive, hale and hearty.
“As a matter of fact Baba presided over a meeting till very late Saturday night where he received a report of a Committee of the Organisation led by Balogun Akin Osuntokun and other eminent Yoruba personalities.
“It is however not unlikely that the rumoured death might not have been a mistaken identity for another distinguished Yoruba son and former Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Professor Ayo Banjo, whose death at the age of 90 years, was reported on Friday.”
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