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Former Oyo Military Governor Gen. Adetunji Idowu Olurin Dies

 

A former military governor of Oyo State, Brigadier General Adetunji Idowu Olurin (rtd) is dead.

It was gathered that the former administrator died on Saturday morning at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital(LUTH) after a brief illness.

General Olurin served as the Field Commander of the ECOMOG Peace keeping Force in Liberia between 1992 to 1993.
He attended the Nigerian Defence Academy.

After his retirement from the military, he went into farming and later contested the Ogun governorship election in 2011 but lost to Governor Ibikunle Amosun.

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