The immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, has died at age 70 after battling coronavirus-related symptoms for a month.
The former governor was said to have been hospitalised at First Cardiologist and Cardiovascular Consultants Hospital, Lagos on June 2, 2020 where he breath his last on the 25th of June.
He was said to have tested negative for COVID-19 but the illness had caused his health to deteriorate.
His death came a week after he was rumoured to have died at the same private hospital which was later debunked.
Ajimobi, who was governor from 2011 to 2019, was named the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the ruling All Progressives Congress last month but never resumed.
