Tag: Funke Olakunrin

Fasoranti’s daughter: “No man can change what God has ordained” -Tinubu

Jide Ige

All Progressives Congress stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, says Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, daughter of Afenifere Chairman, Reuben Fasoranti, was destined to die in such a manner. Tinubu said this while addressing journalists after paying Fasoranti a condolence visit on Sunday. The former governor of Lagos State said no man can change what God has ordained even as he maintained that she could have died in a road accident if she wasn’t shot on her way to Lagos last Friday. He said the tragedy could be converted to an opportunity to improve…

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“Police demanded N1000 from us to take mummy to hospital” – Late Olakunrin’s aide

Wura Kelani, Crime Reporter

Oke Olasehinde, an aide to the late Funke Olakunrin, daughter of elder statesman and Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, who was shot by unknown gunmen on Ore road, has revealed that his boss might have lived if not for the insistence of one of the policemen at the scene that demanded N1,000 as ‘fuel money’ that caused the delay they encountered in taking her to the hospital. According to The Punch, Oke said, “The people (bandits) were about 20 in number. They shot at our vehicle; as we were about…

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