Former Ogun Assembly leader slumps, dies after birthday celebration

The immediate past majority leader of the Ogun State House of Assembly and Allied Peoples Movement (APM) House of Representatives candidate during the 2019 general elections, Honourable Yinka Mafe, is dead.

He was aged 46 years.

The late Hon. Yinka Mafe was said to have celebrated his birthday in Emuren, his home town, and Sagamu on Tuesday night before he slumped and died.

Mafe who was born on the 4th of February, 1974, is a Nigerian lawyer; he was elected the Councillor of Ward three in Sagamu Local Government Legislative Council in December 1998, a term which ended in 2002.

Mafe got elected as a member of the Ogun State House of Assembly in 2011 and became the Chairman House Committee on Education, Science and Technology and re-elected in 2015.

He represented Sagamu 1 constituency of Ogun State in the House of Assembly and served as the Majority Leader.

He was married to Yeye Asiwaju Adetutu Yinka-mafe (CEO Tenth Planet Suites Sagamu). The marriage is blessed with two boys and two girls.

-The Nation