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Renowned Marxist Segun Sango dies at 64

A renowned socialist and activist Segun Aderemi, popularly known as Sango, has succumbed to his protracted illness. Aderemi died on Monday, aged 64 years. Lanre Arogundade, the director of International Press Centre (IPC), broke the news of Aderemi’s death on Monday.

The deceased’s corpse was deposited at the TOS funeral home, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

Aderemi cut his teeth as an ardent agitator for students and workers welfare at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife), where he graduated as a lawyer.

He was the founding general secretary of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM); foundation leader of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN); former leader and Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the National Conscience Party (NCP).

He was also “an erstwhile students’ movement fighter and a strong anti-military and anti-capitalist pro-democracy – a real hero of Nigeria’s democracy,” wrote Arogundade in his tribute to the deceased.

 

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