The President of Yoruba World Congress Professor Banji Akintoye has said the late Senator Ayo Fasanmi was the brain behind the team put together by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo to actualize his policies as the premier of the defunct western Nigeria.
The Second republic Senator said Fasanmi’s death was as a personal loss to him and a huge loss to the people of Southwest in particular and Nigeria in general. He commiserated with his immediate family, people of Ekiti State, praying that God will grant the family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss and grant the deceased eternal rest.He said, ” The late elder statesman Senator Chief Ayo Fasanmi was a dedicated national democrat, the brainiest of the brains behind the yet to be equalled people oriented Obafemi Awolowo team of Western Nigeria of the mid-1950s to mid-1960s.
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