The former Military Administrator of Oyo and Ekiti States state, General Tunji Olurin (rtd.), has died at the age of 76.
Olurin died at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in the early hours of Saturday, according to Funso Olurin, the deceased’s brother.
He said the former ECOMOG commander died after a brief illness.
Olurin, who hailed from Ilaro in the Ogun West Senatorial district of Ogun State, was the military administrator of Ekiti State between from October 8, 2006, and April 27, 2007.
He was the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the 2011 general election for Ogun State.
He was a field commander of ECOMOG Peacekeeping Force in Liberia from 1992 to 1993 during the first Liberian civil war.
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