Former Military Governor of old Oyo, General Tunji Olurin has died at age 76.
Olurin, who governed Oyo from 1985-1988, passed away on Saturday, August 21 at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) after a brief illness.
General Olurin served as the Field Commander of the ECOMOG Peace keeping Force in Liberia between 1992 to 1993.
He attended the Nigerian Defence Academy.
After his retirement from the military, he went into farming and later joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on which platform he contested the Ogun governorship election in 2011 but lost to Governor Ibikunle Amosun.
He is survived by a wife and children
