The founder of Odua Peoples Congress, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, is dead.

Fasehun died in the early hours of Saturday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.

According to reports, the 83-year-old was admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital on Tuesday where he remained until his demise.

Confirming his death, Fasehun’s spokesman, Mr. Adeoye Jolaosho, said the late OPC founder died after a brief illness.

Fasehun was born in Ondo Town, Ondo State in 1935.

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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 1970s.

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.

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.