Olaniwun ajayi biography

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Olaniwun ajayi biography

We have been suffering for 56 years and we are like a small child of 3 or 5 years who cannot walk if you compare us with Brazil, India and Malaysia. Where are we?&#; Olaniwun Ajayi asked in an interview published in National Mirror in February

Ajayi, 91, who died in the early hours of Friday in a Lagos hospital, was a consistent advocate of a balanced Nigeria, where power should be equally shared and resources evenly distributed.

Apart from being a chieftain of Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Ajayi was a lawyer par excellence, a philosopher with a great deal of sartorial acumen.

A devout methodist, he belonged to the Reuben Fasoranti faction of Afenifere.

When he turned 91 in April , he donated a building to the Methodist Church Training school in Sagamu, Ogun.

Until his death, he was deeply concerned about the moral decline and deg