Gani Fawehinmi Passes Away At 71
September 5th, 2009 - 8:50 pm ICT by GDBy gina gomez
It has been reported that prolific Nigerian attorney and human rights activist, Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi, popularly known as Gani, has passed away. According to sources, his colleagues have said that he has succumbed to a long drawn battle waged against cancer, that had lasted for about 2 years. He was 71.
The news of his sad demise had flooded in during the early hours of the morning today, on September 5.
The president of the Campaign for Democracy, Joe Oke-Odumakin has reportedly told AFP, “Gani passed on this morning in his residence at Ikeja. We are saddened and devastated by his death.”
Fawehinmi had founded and presided hopeful for the National Conscience Party in the year 2003. He had been regarded as a threat by quite a few Nigerian governments, both military and civil, because of his vehement stand in social matters.
The reports of his death has been confirmed by another rights activist, Shina Loremikan, who said, “I was informed by his family that he died early this morning.”
Fawehinmi is known to be the holder of the highest legal title in Nigeria, which is the Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). He had also secured a widespread reputation as an author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, and most prolifically, as a human and civil rights activist. He was born in 1938, on April 22 and has led a very eventful life, dedicated to the cause of others living.
Over the past few years, he was said to have been making frequent trips to the hospital and back, both on the home turf, as well as abroad, for the treatment of his cancer.
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