Spokesman Says Ajimobi is Alive

Abiola Ajimobi, earlier rumoured to be dead, may not be dead afterall as a aide to the former Oyo State governor said he was still alive as of 9:00 p.m. on Thursday.

Bolaji Tunji said Nigerians should discard raging social media rumour that Mr Ajimobi had succumbed to coronavirus at an undisclosed hospital in Lagos..

Mr Ajimobi’s commissioner for information when he was governor, Toye Arulogun, also saidr he had no information on his principal’s status.

The rumour, which earned rapid circulation on social media, said Mr Ajimobi had spent weeks in critical condition at a Lagos hospital after contacting the coronavirus.

The report came two days after the ruling All Progressives Congress named the former governor, who also once served as a senator from Oyo State, as its national chairman. The party has been engulfed in leadership tussle amidst multi-dimensional opposition to Adams Oshiomhole.

But Mr Tunji, a journalist who became Mr Ajimobi’s media aide at the twilight of his career, said Mr Ajimobi’s family insisted he was still alive as of the 9:00 p.m.