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Breaking News | Yinka Odumakin & Innocent Chukwuma: Indelible footprints of two revolutionary fighters

By Lanre Arogundade The demise of Yinka and Innocent within twenty four hours of each other last weekend was a double blow for Nigeria’s radical movement. The more the reality of their exit registers, the more the pains and pangs torment. If the passage of Gani Fawehinmi, Alao Aka-Bashorun, Arthur Nwankwo, etc, at advanced age caused considerable grief, that of Yinka and Innocent cannot but be evocative of the kind of deeper grief that greeted the exit of Chris Abashi, Chima Ubani, Bamidele Aturu, Remi Ogunlana, Rotimi Ewebiyi, Bala Muhammed, Emma Ezeazu, etc. Even if the gods of revolution are equally in shock, we must ask them why significant numbers of the ‘younger’ generation of radicals and revolutionists are struggling to cross the sixty borderline to make a dash at the biblical three scores and one.

OBITUARY: Yinka Odumakin: A fighter falls in his prime

OBITUARY: Yinka Odumakin: A fighter falls in his prime Yinka Odumakin died at the age of 56 but left behind a legacy of active public engagements 7 min read Leaving behind aged parents and a young family made the sting of Yinka Odumakin’s death even more painful for his loved ones, associates and admirers. The heart-rending moment the news was broken to his centenarian father was Not even the scriptural sermon and proverbs employed by a pastor in breaking the sad news could cushion the blow on Pa Ezekiel Odumakin, a church elder at the Christ Apostolic Church, Waasinmi, in Moro, a small community in Ife North Local Government Area of Osun State.

Odumakin Contracted COVID-19, Recovered, Dies of Lung Complications

Our Correspondents The fiery spokesperson of Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Comrade Yinka Odumakin, yesterday, died from lung complications, after testing negative to COVID-19 twice. He had earlier contracted the COVID-19 but had recovered and tested negative to the virus on two consecutive times. Odumakin had been discharged penultimate Monday from the Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH), Yaba, Lagos, the isolation centre for COVID-19 patients. But while still battling the disease, he was said to have been intubated and, in the process, suffered lung complications. According to close family sources, when the complications in his respiratory organs did not give way as quickly as expected, he was rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, where he eventually passed on yesterday.

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