August 21, (THEWILL) – A former Field Commander of the West African peace initiative, ECOMOG, and Military Administrator (Milad) of Oyo and Ekiti states, General Adetunji Idowu Olurin, has died.
He was 76.
According to Funso Olurin, the deceased’s brother, Olurin died in the early hours of Saturday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
Details about his death were still sketchy at the time of filing this report.
The septuagenarian, born on December 3, 1944, was an indigene of Ilaro, in Ogun State.
Olurin, a former Governorship Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, attended the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1967-70; School of Infantry, Quetta, Pakistan,1973; Army Command and Staff College, Jaji, 1977-78.
Olurin had his primary education at Christ Church School, Ilaro from 1951 -54; St. Paul’s School, Odo-Ona, Ibadan, 1955-57 and Local Government Authority Modern School, 1958.
He also attended Egbado College, Ilaro, 1959-64, Technical College (now The Polytechnic), Ibadan, 1966.
He was also at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, 1989. He was appointed Battalion Commander, 1970-71; Brigade Major 1972-74; Instructor, Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, 1974; Defence Adviser, Nigerian High Commission India, 1975-77.
General Olurin served as the Field Commander of the ECOMOG Peace keeping Force in Liberia between 1992 to 1993.
He in 1975 got married to Kehinde Oyeleye, with whom he had two sons.
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