Former Presidential Candidate Dies

A former Presidential candidate is dead.

Newsone Nigeria reports that a former presidential candidate of the National Action Council (NAC), Olapade Agoro is dead.

The former presidential candidate who founded NAC died in the early hours of Sunday, November 1 at the age of 78.

Sources close to his Apata, Ibadan residence said Olapade Agoro died around 3 a.m. on Sunday.

The news of his death was announced on Sunday Adeola Agoro by his daughter. Adeola announced the death of her father on her Facebook page.

She wrote “Olapade Agoro we are calling you but you’re not answering again.

‘Ha! We said we loved you but you refused to listen.

“You have left us like that.

“It’s not okay o. It’s just not okay.

“But as you have gone to be with your mother Dorcas Oyejola Asabi, I won’t talk yet.

“But this is not fair on me.

“Baba Deola, you should have looked back a little now.

“Ha death you’re wicked!”.

Also confirming his death, son of the deceased, Adebo Agoro, said “my father died after a brief illness.”

Until his death, the former Presidential candidate was a community and spiritual leader as well as a politician. He was born on October 9, 1943, at Ajibabi village of Ibadan to Royal Prince of Atapami Dynasty of Itapa Ijesha, late Omo-Oba Owa ‘Tapa Joshua Alaba Agoro and his wife Late Mother in Israel Dorcas Oyejola Asabi Agoro.