Folorunso Alagbede, Abuja
A chieftain of the defunct Alliance for Democracy, AD, and former Senator between 1999 and 2003, Chief Olabiyi Durojaiye is dead.
Durojaiye passed on in the early hours of Tuesday at the age of 88 years.
Durojaiye, a lawyer, was born in 1933 and worked for 35 years in the public sector including 28 years as a director of the Central Bank of Nigeria and Minting and Printing company.
He was elected Senator in 1999 for the Ogun East constituency of Ogun State, at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform.
The former Senator and erstwhile leader of the AD, earned a BSc (Economics) London, and an LLB, London.
He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1979, and was a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Senator Durojaiye will be remembered as one of the prominent figures in the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO that fought the administration of late military leader, General Sanni Abacha which took him to detention for months.
