Lagos Senator Bayo Osinowo is dead. He reportedly died in Lagos on Monday of complications from COVID-19.
According to reports reaching TheNewsGuru (TNG), Osinowo reportedly called in sick for treatment after he tested positive for COVID-19, but died days later while under intensive care.
The Senator popularly known as Pepperito in died at the First Cardiologist Hospital, an approved Covid-19 ICU in Lagos.
A source, who is very close to the family spoke to TNG in confidence: “Osinowo did all he could to battle the virus, but it is unfortunate the complications overwhelmed him”
However, TNG is yet to get an official report on the Covid-19 status of the deceased.
The four-time Lagos House of Assembly member was elected a senator in 2019.
He was representing Lagos East constituency in the Senate.
Osinowo, famously called Pepperito was born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State on 28 November 1955.
He had his early education in Ijebu-Ode at St. Augustine Primary School and Isonyin Grammar School.
After his graduation in Isonyin, Osinowo worked with the Federal Ministry of Works till 1979.
He then set up his own businesses where he was managing director.
Osinowo also spent some years in Italy studying building technology, according to his bio published by Wikipedia.
Osinowo was part of the June 12 campaign and was arrested by the DSS, spending months in detention, until Sani Abacha’s death in 1998.
Osinowo also joined the Alliance for Democracy in 1999 and was elected a member of the Lagos House of Assembly in 2003.
He spent four terms in the house before he was elected Senator in 2019, replacing Senator Ashafa in Lagos East constituency.
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