Ex-Ogun Dep Gov dead

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Ijebuland have lost a chieftain from Ogun State.
Alhaji (Chief) Raifu Ogunleye who was Deputy Governor to Chief Olusegun Osoba in the 1992/93 political dispensation that saw the aborted famous June 12 election in the Babangida era died Monday morning at Babcock Hospital, Illishan Remo after a brief illness.
Alhaji Ogunleye, aged 81, who hails from the Agbodu Quarters of Ijebu Itele Moyegeso is survived by a wife and six children Two of his wives had passed on before him.
His children who live abroad sent in words that their father will be interred according to Muslim rites after Muslim prayers at the Itele Central Mosque at 2pm tomorrow Tuesday.
Alhaji Ogunleye’s political journey traversed the Alliance for Democracy (AD); the Alliance Congress of Nigeria (ACN); the All Peoples Congress of Nigeria (APC) before he cross carpeted to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) because of irreconcilable differences with the immediate past Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun.
He was one of the 12 gubernatorial candidates of the PDP in the 2014 Ogun PDP Guber party primaries election.
Alhaji Ogunleye was one of the politicians honored by the former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan for his role in supporting women development in Nigeria in 2014.