A former Military Governor of Oyo State, Brig. Gen. Adetunji Olurin is dead.
He died on Saturday at the age of 78.
The septuagenarian was reported to have died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in Lagos of an undisclosed illness.
Olurin, who was an indigene of Ilaro, Ogun State was born on Dec. 3, 1944.
A former Commander, ECOWAS Monitoring Group, (ECOMOG), Olurin had his primary education at Christ Church School, Ilaro from 1951 to 1954; St. Paul’s School, Odo-Ona, Ibadan, 1955 to 1957 and Local Government Authority Modern School, 1958.
Olurin also attended Egbado College, Ilaro, 1959-64, Technical College (now The Polytechnic), Ibadan in 1966.
The deceased, thereafter, attended the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1967 to 1970; School of Infantry, Quetta, Pakistan, 1973; Army Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1977 to 1978.
He was also a former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State in 2011.
He got married to his wife, Kehinde Oyeleye, in 1975 and they had two sons.
