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Kwara Assembly House Leader Olawoyin is dead

The House Leader of the Kwara House of Assembly, Abubakar Mogaji Olawoyin, is dead.

• January 9, 2023
ABUBAKAR MOGAJI OLAWOYIN
ABUBAKAR MOGAJI OLAWOYIN

The House Leader of the Kwara House of Assembly,  Abubakar Mogaji Olawoyin, is dead.

The chief press secretary to the speaker, Abdulquadr Yusuf, confirmed this on Monday in Ilorin.

Mr Olawoyin was of the APC and represented Mogajin geri constituency. 

(NAN)

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