A former chairman of the governing council and pro-chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, Dr. Nasiru Dejo Raimi, is dead.

Raimi was also a former Secretary to the Oyo State Government, SSG, before his demise.

CEOAFRICA gathered that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain, aged 81, was hale and hearty on Saturday.

He was, however, said to have complained of uneasiness in the midnight, after which he was rushed to a nearby private hospital where he died yesterday.

A Russia-trained medical doctor, Raimi rose through the ranks to become the chief medical officer in the old Oyo State, before his venturing into politics in the aborted Third Republic, and becoming a member of the defunct Social Democratic Party, SDP.

 He was subsequently appointed the SSG by the late Governor Kolapo Ishola in 1991 Raimi left the office after the sack of the then civilian administration on November 17, 1993, when he was replaced with Dr. Busari Adebisi, the current state chairman of Universal Basic Education Board.

Ex-governor Ladoja appointed him a member of the governing board of the Oyo and Osun states-owned owned Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, in 2003/2004.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed him the pro-chancellor and governing council chairman of FUTA in his administration.

As the news of his death filtered into ‘Denton Villa’, his residence, at Agodi GRA, Ibadan yesterday, the area became a mecca of sort, with people trooping to commiserate with the family.