A former Majority Leader of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Honourable Yinka Mafe is dead, eliciting shock and sadness from the state branch of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Mafe died Tuesday night shortly after celebrating his 46th birthday at Tenth Planet & Suites , Sagamu, Ogun State.
The deceased who was born on February 4th, 1974 was said to have complained of chest pain after the celebration.
Mafe represented Sagamu Constituency 1 (Ofin) at the Ogun State House of Assembly between 2011 and 2019 on the platform of the APC.
He had earlier on Tuesday organized a prayer session at his country home in Emuren as part of activities to commemorate his birthday and visited inmates and warders at the Nigerian Correctional Centre, (Prison), Sagamu.
His remains have been deposited at the morgue of the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu.
Tunde Oladunjoye, Ogun APC Caretaker Committee in a statement said “Though the circumstances surrounding his death are still sketchy, our party however, has, indeed, lost a vibrant lawmaker, legal practitioner and consummate entrepreneur, known for his outspokenness, no matter where he finds himself.
“The party recalled that even when others remained in the deflated and defunct Allied People’s Movement (APM), Yinka Mafe took a very bold and courageous step to return to APC”.
“While the other defected and defeated members of defunct APM were still shadow-chasing and preoccupied with empty boasts, Mafe, less than a month after the election of Prince Dapo Abiodun, specifically on April 2, 2019 announced his return to APC on the floor of Ogun State House of Assembly.”
“While commiserating with the wife, children and the entire members of the family of the deceased, and indeed the people of Sagamu 1 State Constituency, the APC prays that God will give them the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.”