A former Minister of Labour and Productivity under the Interim National Government of Chief Ernest Sonekan, Prince Ajibola Afonja, has passed away.
The former Chairman of First Bank and native of Oyo Town, Oyo State, died on Sunday night at the University College Hospital, UCH, in Ibadan, at the age of 82.
He was said to have sustained injuries from a lone accident he was involved in at Ilora, a few kilometres from his country home.
He was thereafter rushed to UCH in Ibadan where he eventually died.
The deceased was at a time the senatorial candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in Oyo Central Senatorial District.
