The Aderinokun family has announced the death of their illustrious son, Otunba Eddie, Olayiwola Aderinokun, a veteran journalist, published poet, eminent culture of patron and sports administrator.
According to a statement released by his younger brother, Chief Kayode Aderinokun, on behalf of the family today, Otunba Aderinokun died “on the 3rd of January 2021, following a brief illness.”
“Funeral arrangements will be announced by the family”
He was aa vice president of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) and was instrumental to the birth of the Lagos chapter of the association, providing a much-needed home to the body at his Surulere Lagos, guest house.
Otunba Aderinokun was modestly celebrated on the occasion of his 80th birthday anniversary last year in Abuja, by family and friends, especially in the political circuit, where he had spent his last years. He had suffered the loss of his last daughter, Bisola, a few weeks before then, and thus was least interested in the celebration, though his friends and associates insisted.
