The senator representing Lagos East senatorial district in the ninth Assembly, Senator Bayo Osinowo, is dead. He died in Lagos today of complications from COVID-19.
He died on Monday after a brief illness at the age of 64 at the First Cardiologist Hospital, Lagos State.
He was elected Senator in 2019 and was subsequently appointed as the Chairman, Senate Committee on Industries.
Senator Osinowo had his primary education at St. Augustine Primary School in Ijebu-Ode and his Secondary Education in Issoyin Grammar School, Isoyin.
In 1977, he started his career as a Land Officer at the Federal Ministry of Works till 1979. He then became the Managing Director at NITAL International from 1986 to 2003.
Senator Osinowo became the Managing Director at NIMCO International Co. Ltd from 1990 to 2003. He also worked as Managing Director, at Extreme Piling and Construction Company Ltd and NIMCO Dredging Company from 1990 to 2003.
Osinowo began his political life in the second republic serving as a youth Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
He was part of the June 12 campaign and was arrested by the DSS, spending months in detention, until Sani Abacha’s death in 1998.
Osinowo also joined the Alliance for Democracy in 1999 and was elected a member of the Lagos House of Assembly in 2003.
He was a four-term member of the Lagos State House of Assembly.
The late lawmaker was elected into the Senate on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on February 23, during the last general elections.
Until his death, he served as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Industry, and Investment.
