Members of the Odua Peoples Congress have been thrown into mourning, following the death of their founder, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, CEOAfrica reports.

Report gathered that Dr. Fasehun, died in the early hours of Saturday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.

The deceased was reported to have been admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital on Tuesday where he stayed until his demise.

Fasehun’s spokesman, Mr. Adeoye Jolaosho, disclosed to our correspondent that the late OPC founder was confirmed dead after a brief illness.

“It is true, baba died this morning at the ICU in LASUTH, Ikeja,” he affirmed.

The Octogenarian was born in Ondo Town, Ondo State in 1938.

He was a medical doctor and hotel owner and was behind the recent revival of the Unity Party of Nigeria, a party formed by the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo in the 1970s.

He studied science at Blackburn College and furthered his education at Aberdeen University College of Medicine.  

According to Wikipedia, the late medical doctor turned politician, also studied at the Liverpool Postgraduate School after which he had a Fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons.

In 1976, he studied acupuncture in China under a joint World Health Organization and United Nations Development Scholarship Program.

In 1977, he set up an Acupuncture Unit at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. He resigned in 1978 and immediately set up the Besthope Hospital and Acupuncture Centre in Lagos.

The Acupuncture Centre once earned a reputation as Africa’s first for the Chinese medical practice.