Breaking: Gani Fawehinmi’s eldest son, Mohammed, dies at 52

Mohammed Fawehinmi, the first son of the late human rights lawyer Chief Gani Fawehinmi, is dead. He was 52.

He was said to have died in an undisclosed Lagos hospital on Wednesday after complaining of breathing difficulties.

News of the death of the younger Fawehinmi was first reported by qed.ng.

In 2003, he had an accident in Lagos, which affected his spinal cord and confined him to a wheel chair.

Mohammed was a graduate of Business Administration at the University of Lagos.

He also obtained an LLB degree from the University of Buckingham, England, and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1998.

Until his death, he was the head of Mohammed Fawehinmi’s Chambers; Director, Nigerian Law Publications Limited; Director, Books Industries Nigeria Limited, and Director, Gani Fawehinmi Library & Gallery Limited.

Mohammed Fawehinmi was unmarried before his death.

He said in an interview in 2018, “I just felt that I shouldn’t bother any woman with my condition. I didn’t want anybody to marry me out of pity. Even though I always have females around me, it is not every woman that can stay with a person with disability of my kind.”