A former Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly and a former lecturer at Tai Solarin College of Education, now Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Dr. Tokunbo Oshin has passed away.
He died at a private hospital in Sagamu on Saturday night following a brief illness. He was 66 years old.
Ogun State Commissioner for Community Development and Cooperatives, Ademola Balogun, who is also an indigene of Ijebu Igbo in Ijebu North Local Government, like the late Oshin, confirmed the news on Sunday.
Balogun said, “Hon Oshin is dead. He was said to have died on Saturday at a private hospital in Sagamu. He should be around 66 years old. It’s a big loss to our great party, the All Progressives Congress, and Ijebu Igbo town, where we both came from. May his soul rest in peace.”
Oshin served as the Deputy Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly from 2003 to 2007 and was a member representing the Ijebu North State constituency 1 from 2007 to 2011.
In 2008, he ventured into private business as a small-scale petroleum products marketer with the brand name Zipest Ventures Limited, owning Zipest Filling Stations in Ijebu-Ode, Ijebu-Igbo, Ago Iwoye, and until recently, Ibadan.
He represented the South West on the Board of the Small & Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) and occasionally acted as the Board Chairman between 2018 and 2022. He also held positions at Ogun State University, now Olabisi Onabanjo University.
An alumnus of Mayflower School, Ikenne, and Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, Oshin was, until his death, a Non-Executive Director of Gateway Mortgage Bank Limited.
