Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, is dead
Yinka Odumakin, National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, is dead, The PUNCH has learnt.
He died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital Covid Isolation Centre.
His wife, Mrs Joe Okei-Odumakin, confirmed this to The PUNCH on Saturday.
Married to a fellow rights activist, Joe, in 1997, Odumakin’s voice was heard through the dark years of military despotism.
He played a major role in the National Democratic Coalition that fought the regime of late military head of state, General Sani Abacha, after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election. Punch
