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A former deputy governor of old Ondo State, Chief Akin Omoboriowo is dead.
Omoboriowo, lawyer, politician and the Second Republic Deputy Governor of
Ondo State, died of complications from prostate cancer.

Family sources say Omoboriowo, who died at the highbrow St. Nicholas
Hospital, Lagos, on Tuesday, had internal bleeding last week as a result of
complication occasioned by the prostate cancer.

It was learnt that there was a plan by the family was to fly out him abroad
this week for further medical attention.

A native of Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Omoboriowo was survived by five children
and a wife.

Omoboriowo was elected Deputy Governor on the Unity Party of Nigeria
(UPN) platform, running with the late Chief Michael Adekunle Ajasin, who
became governor.

He claimed that he should have been UPN candidate for governor, since he
had won more votes that Ajasin in the primaries, but that the UPN leaders
had rigged the results. During his period as deputy governor, he fell out with
Governor Ajasin, who refused to swear him into power as acting Governor
when Ajasin was away from the state.

Omoboriowo switched to the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) and ran against
his old boss in the 1983 elections. When the federal Electoral Commission
declared Omoboriowo the winner on 16 August 1983, the announcement
sparked riots.

His election was disputed, and was reversed by an electoral court of appeal
before he was inaugurated, with Ajasin being reinstated in office.

After the coup on 31 December 1983 that brought General Muhammadu
Buhari to power, he was jailed for four months, as were almost all the former
governors and their deputies, but was then released without charge. He would
later state that Buhari was right to have jailed him and the others at the time.

Later he became Pro-chancellor and Chairman of the governing council of the
University of Ado Ekiti.. He was also Chairman of an Electrical Company
based in Abuja where he was based for a stretch of time before his death.

Meanwhile, President Goodluck  Jonathan has said “he received with
sadness the death of the Second Republic Deputy Governor of old Ondo
State, Chief Akin Omoboriowo.”

The President described Chief Omoboriowo as a politician who was not afraid
to stand for his political beliefs, expressed his deepest condolences to his
widow, family and the government and people of Ekiti State.
Akin Omoboriowo dies of cancer
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