Yinka Odumakin, the National Publicity Secretary of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere dead.
Report has it that, Odumakin died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital’s Covid Isolation Centre.
Yinka, a human rights activist, who is married to a fellow activist, Joe Okei Odumakin, played a major role in the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO that fought the regime of late military head of state, General Sani Abacha, after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election.
As Afenifere spokesman, Odumakin spoke tenaciously for the rights of the Yoruba and the people of the South-West geopolitical zone.
He was an aide of Buhari during the 2011 presidential election campaign, but left the former Head of State during the 2014 presidential election, which Buhari won.
He later became staunch critic of the policies and programmes of the regime of the President Buhari.
