Dr Frederick Fasehun
Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick
Fasehun is dead, aged 83.
Senior Special Adviser on Media, to Fasehun, Mr Adeoye Jolaosho,
disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on
Saturday.
He said the OPC chieftain died at about 1:00 a.m, Saturday at
the intensive care unit of the Lagos State University Teaching
Hospital Ikeja (LASUTH).
“Baba took ill on Wednesday and was rushed to the intensive care
unit of LASUTH.
“He died early hours of today. We are all devastated,” he
said.
Fasehun was an active member of National Democratic Coalition
(NADECO).
He was born in Ondo on September 25, 1938, in Ondo, Ondo
State.
He began his education late, entering primary school at the age
of 13 at Saint Matthews Roman Catholic School, Ondo.
He later moved to Saint Peter’s Teacher’s Training College,
Akure, also in Ondo state. But he was expelled from school, because
of his non-conformity with Catholicism.
Fasehun was then admitted to Ondo Boys High School, where he
completed his secondary education in less than three years, with a
Grade One distinction.
His brother offered him a scholarship to study science at
Blackburn College in the UK. He 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.
In 1976, he studied acupuncture in China under a joint World
Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Development
Scholarship Program.
On his return in 1977, he set up an Acupuncture Unit at the
Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
He resigned in 1978 and immediately set up the Besthope Hospital
and Acupuncture Centre in Lagos.
His Acupuncture Centre once earned a reputation as Africa’s
first for the Chinese medical practice.
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