Ogun PRP Gov Candidate Dies After Brief Illness

By Oladosu Oluwagbenga

Prof. David Olufemi Bamgbose, the Peoples Redemption Party’s (PRP) candidate for governor of Ogun State in the general election of 2023, has passed away.

According to information obtained by THEEAGLE, the 54-year-old philanthropist and professor of education passed away on Friday at the Sacred Heart Hospital in Lantoro, Abeokuta, where he had been brought following a brief illness, six days after obtaining the party’s governorship nomination.

According to reports, the late Bamgbose had complained of persistent fatigue on Thursday, prompting his family to take him to a private hospital in the Federal Housing Estate, Olomore neighborhood of Abeokuta, where he was then sent on to the Federal Medical Central (FMC), Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.

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The late politician was thereafter admitted at the Sacred Heart Hospital, Lantoro, Abeokuta, where he was given oxygen till Friday, when he later passed away, according to Oduntan Olayemi, the deceased’s personal assistant and an assistant senior pastor of Peace and Love Church.

Olayeni said, “he complained of tiredness on Thursday and we decided to take him to a hospital around Olomore. We were referred to FMC for further checks”.

“We opted for Sacred Heart Hospital, Lantoro because of the urgency and he was admitted at the emergency ward where he was administer oxygen till Friday, when he died.”

“When I got back to the hospital yesterday morning and I met him breathing too fast and heavily. I was at where I went to get him some prescribed medication when he has passed on”.

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Bamgbose, who recently left the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGAgovernorship )’s candidate in the state’s 2015 election. However, at the PRP’s primary held last Saturday at the State Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Iwe Irohin, Abeokuta, he later emerged as the party’s governorship candidate for the 2023 election.

The late professor of European America University is left by his wife, Mrs. Mary Bamgbose, and six children. He was the Minister-In-Charge of Peace and Love Church of God in the Ogbe neighborhood of Abeokuta at the time of his death.

Olaposi Oginni, the leader of the New Nigeria People’s Party, called Bamgbose’s death as shocking in response to it.

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Oginni, in a statement made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, condole with the family of Bamgbose and members of his party.

He said, “I received the death of the gubernatorial candidate of PRP Ogun State with rude shock.

“I hereby send my condolences to Prof Bamgbose’s family and the entire PRP members in Ogun State.

“I pray God will give the entire family the fortitude to bear the irreplaceable loss”, Oginni prayed