OPC founder Frederick Fasehun dies at 83 | The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper

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The founder of Odua Peoples Congress, Frederick Fasehun, died Saturday at age 83, his family announced.

“Frederick Fasehun, founder of OPC has passed on at 83,” Fasehun’s brother, Macneneize Fasehun told The Guardian.

He was a medical doctor and was responsible for 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. He also studied at the Liverpool Postgraduate School after which he had a Fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons, according to Wikipedia.

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

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