May 4, (THEWILL)- Olorogun Kenneth Gbaji, a former federal cabinet member, businessman, politician and governorship aspirant in Delta State, has died in a Lagos State hospital, a senior Delta State official with knowledge of the development told THEWILL moments ago.
The 62-year-old criminologist and attorney of the Nigerian bar was the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 gubernatorial election in Delta State and a former Minister of State for Education.
Born in Sapele, Delta State, in a Catholic hospital by the Cemetery at Ogodo Road on September 22, 1961, Gbagi attended Bishop Johnson Memory Primary School, Sapele. At 14, he left for Kosofe Secondary School, Mile 12 in Lagos.
After his secondary education, Gbagi worked with a Foreign Service before travelling abroad to further his education. While in Hong Kong, he shot a movie titled The Birth of Hong Kong in 1993. This gave him some money to pay his tuition fee at Sans Thomas University in the Philippines, where he read political science. He left Sans Thomas University and graduated as a criminologist from the Philippine College of Criminology.
Gbagi returned to Nigeria for his National Youth Service (NYSC) and served at the Police College in Ikeja, where he taught criminology.
He later went back to School and made distinction at the faculty of law, University of Lagos. He was the youngest lawyer ever to head the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria.
His investments in Nigeria include GKO Group of Companies, Geekos Investments, Woodridge Hotels Group, and Robinson Shopping Plaza in Warri.
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