UPDATED: Nigerian senator Adebayo Osinowo is dead

Adebayo Osinowo, a Nigerian senator from Lagos, is dead.

Mr Osinowo died on Monday, an official said.

The death of Mr Osinowo, widely known as Pepper, stemmed from “complications” from ailments not immediately disclosed, Lagos government spokesperson, Gboyega Akosile, told PREMIUM TIMES.

Mr Osinowo was until his demise a first-term senator from Lagos East Senatorial District. He was 64.

Here are ten things you need to know about him.

1. He was a native of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.

2. He was the Ogun State Youth Chairman of the National Party of Nigeria in the Second Republic, in 1979.

3. He was a four-term lawmaker (from 2003 – 2019) representing Kosofe Constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly.

4. He served as chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Lands and Housing for 11 years.

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5. He held a Diploma in Building Technology at the Instituto per Geometri, Rome, Italy. He also studied Italian Language.

6. He also held a Masters Degree in Mass Communication from the Urbaniana University in Rome, Italy,

7. He was married with three children, two of them medical doctors.

8. To emerge as the Lagos East senatorial zone candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the party’s primaries in 2019, he polled 247,743 votes to defeat the incumbent senator, Gbenga Ashafa, who got 20,385 votes.

9. He was more popularly known as Pepper or Pepperito. He was also known as Unifier and Stabiliser.

10. He was first nicknamed Pepper Eyes while in secondary school due to his red eyeballs. It was later shortened to Pepper.