By Gabriel Atumeyi
365Daily – The former Military Administrator of Oyo State, Brig-Gen. Tunji Olurin (rtd.), is dead.
Olurin who is also a close political ally of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in the early hours of Saturday, according to family source, at the age of 77.
The deceased’s brother, Funso Olurin, made this known in Abeokuta on Saturday .
He said Olurin died after a brief illness.
Olurin, who was also a former Military Administrator of Ekiti State from October 8, 2006 until April 27, 2007, hailed from Ilaro in Ogun West Senatorial District of Ogun State.
Olurin, a Field Commander of ECOMOG Peacekeeping Force in Liberia from 1992 to 1993 during the First Liberian Civil War, retired from service in 1993.
He later ventured into politics and was the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate in the 2011 general election in Ogun State.