A former Military Administrator of Oyo State and a bosom friend of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Brig-Gen. Tunji Olurin (rtd.) is dead.
Olurin, who died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in the early hours of Saturday, was 77, family sources revealed.
The deceased’s brother, Funso Olurin, confirmed his death in Abeokuta on Saturday .
According to him, Olurin died after a brief illness.
Olurin, who was also a Emergency Government Administrator of Ekiti State from October 8, 2006 to April 27, 2007, hailed from Ilaro in Ogun West Senatorial District of Ogun State.
He was the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate in the 2011 general election in Ogun State.
Olurin, a Field Commander of ECOMOG Peacekeeping Force in Liberia from 1992 to 1993 during the First Liberian Civil War, retired from service in 1993.