Ayo Fasanmi | |
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Born | |
Died | 29 July 2020 | (aged 94)
Nationality | Nigerian |
Citizenship | Nigerian |
Occupation(s) | politician pharmacist |
Years active | 1978–2020 |
Ayorinde Fasanmi // (27 September 1925[1][2] – 29 July 2020) was a Nigerian pharmacist and politician.[3][4][5][6]
He was born in 1925 at Iye Ekiti, a local government area of Ekiti State, southwestern Nigeria.[7] He attended St Paul's primary school, Ebutte Metta and Government School, Ibadan before he proceeded to the Pharmacy School of Yaba where he received a diploma certificate in pharmacy.[8] He practiced as a pharmacist at Oshogbo briefly before he joined the Nigerian politics.[9]
He joined the Unity Party of Nigeria in 1978 and was a candidate in the Ondo State gubernatorial primary election but lost to Michael Adekunle Ajasin, the former governor of Ondo State.[10] In 1983, he was elected member of the Federal House of Representatives representing Ondo North.[11] He later served as member of the Board of Directors of the Old Western Nigeria Housing Corporation.[12] During the Fourth Nigerian Republic, he served as the National Vice Chairman of the Alliance for Democracy, Southwest zone.[13][14]
He was married to the late Madam Adejoke who died at the age of 82 years in October 2014.[15]