BREAKING: Obafemi Awolowo’s eldest child, Tola Oyediran is dead

Rev Tola Oyediran, the eldest child of late Western Region Premier, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, is dead.

She passed on around noon on Friday October 16, 2020 at 79 years.

She was billed to celebrate her 80th birthday on December 1.

Newsacross.com gathered that she was very hale and hearty as at late last night.

Until her death, she was the Chairman, Board of Directors of African Newspapers of Nigeria ( ANN) publishers of Tribune titles.

Revd Oyediran was married to Professor A. B. O. O. Oyediran, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan.

Her death, leaves Dr Olatokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu as the only surviving child of the Awolowo dynasty.