The four-time Lagos House
of Assembly member was elected a senator in 2019.
He was representing Lagos East
constituency in the Senate.
Lagos Senator Bayo Osinowo
is dead. He died in Lagos today of complications from COVID-19.
He was 64 years old.
Osinowo, famously called Pepperito
was born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State on 28 November 1955.
He had his early education
in Ijebu-Ode at St. Augustine Primary School and Isonyin Grammar School.
After his graduation in
Isonyin, Osinowo worked with the Federal Ministry of Works till 1979.
He then set up his own
businesses where he was managing director.
Osinowo also spent some
years in Italy studying building technology, according to his bio published by
Wikipedia.
Osinowo was part of the
June 12 campaign and was arrested by the DSS, spending months in detention,
until Sani Abacha’s death in 1998.
Osinowo also joined the
Alliance for Democracy in 1999 and was elected a member of the Lagos House of
Assembly in 2003.
He spent four terms in the
house before he was elected Senator in 2019, replacing Senator Bariyu Gbenga
Ashafa in Lagos East constituency.
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