General Tunji Olurin, former governor of old Oyo state between 1985-1988 is dead.
He was born in Ilaro,Ogun state on December 3,1944.
Olurin
He passed on Saturday morning at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital,Luth, after a brief illness.
General Olurin also 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 joined the People’s Democratic Party,PDP, on which platform he contested the Ogun state governorship election in 2011 but lost to Governor Ibikunle Amosun.
He is survived by a wife and children.
The news of his death was confirmed to Newdawnngr.com by a member of the Olurin family.
