‘How Yinka Odumakin attended to Yoruba issues on sick bed’

By Kennedy Mbele

At the main gate of the popular Omole Estate, Ojodu, Lagos hung a portrait of the frontline human rights activist, Yinka Odumakin, confirming the news of his sudden death at 59 last Wednesday.

At the Odumakins’ residence inside the estate, also hanging at the entrance was an upright banner bearing the picture of the late Afenifere spokesman, clutching communication tools: books, a diary and a pen, which had become part and parcel of him until that black Saturday of April 3 when he passed on to eternal glory.

Sympathizers trooped in and were ushered into the modestly…