The Publicity Secretary of the Pan-Yoruba political group, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, is dead.
Aged 56, Odumakin died on Saturday of COVID-19 complications at the Intensive Care Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.
He was said to have been battling underlying conditions such as diabetes before the COVID-19 attack.
His wife, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, confirmed this in a press statement entitled: “A PART OF ME IS GONE!”
The statement reads:
“With gratitude to the Supreme Being for a life well spent, I announce the passing on of my beloved husband, Comrade Yinka Odumakin, to the great beyond after a brief illness.
The sad event happened this morning (Saturday, 3/4/2021) at the intensive care unit of LASUTH where he was being managed for respiratory issues due to complications from COVID-19, which he had recovered from about a week ago.
I appreciate the outpouring of grief and sympathy from home and abroad as I mourn my irreplaceable soulmate. I urge us all to remain steadfast in the cause of the masses to which he dedicated his life.
Burial arrangement will be made public in due course”.
