Pa Ayo Adebanjo is alive not dead – Afenifere douses rumour

Pa Ayo Adebanjo, leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, is alive.

In the early hours of Sunday, there was news circulating that the leader was dead.

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However, Sola Ebisieni, the national secretary of the organization in a telephone interview debunked the news of the leader’s death.

Ebisieni confirmed that the leader is hale and hearty, adding that they were together last night.

His words “ That is not correct Pa Ayo Adebanjo our leader is alive, he is hale and hearty he has even directed me this morning to issue a statement to that effect. I was with him last night in a meeting with other Yoruba leaders.

He explained that Pa Adebanjo was mistaken for the former VC of the University of Ibadan, Ayo Banjo who died on Friday.

“There is a mistaken identity, there was an announcement on the vice-chancellor from the University of Ibadan, Ayo Banjo who died,” he said

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