The founder of Odua Peoples Congress, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has
died.
Fasehun, it was learnt , died in the early hours of today at the
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital , Ikeja .
The octogenarian, it was learnt , was admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of the
hospital on Tuesday where he remained until his demise .
Confirming his death to pressmen on the telephone,
Fasehun’ s spokesman, Mr. Adeoye Jolaosho, said the late OPC founder was
confirmed dead after a brief illness .
“ It is true , baba died this morning at the ICU in LASUTH , Ikeja ,” he
said .
Fasehun was born in Ondo Town , Ondo State in 1935.
He was a medical doctor and hotel owner and was responsible for
the recent revival of the Unity Party of Nigeria , a party formed by
the late sage , Chief Obafemi Awolowo in the 1970 s .
He studied science at Blackburn College and furthered his education
at Aberdeen University College of Medicine . He also studied at the
Liverpool Postgraduate School after which he had a Fellowship at
the Royal College of Surgeons, according to Wikipedia .
In 1976 , he studied acupuncture in China under a joint World
Health Organization and United Nations Development Scholarship
Program .
In 1977, he set up an Acupuncture Unit at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. He resigned in 1978 and immediately set up the Besthope Hospital and
Acupuncture Centre in Lagos . The Acupuncture Centre once earned a reputation as Africa ’s first for the Chinese medical practice.
The OPC is a Yoruba - based organization formed to actualise the annulled mandate of Chief MKO Abiola , who won the presidential election of 12 June 1993 but was barred from office .
Fasehun was imprisoned for 19 months from December 1996 to June 1998 during the military rule of Sani Abacha .
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