Former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Richard Akinjide, have died.
He was aged 88 years.
The Next Edition gathered that the legal luminary passed on in his Ibadan home in early hours of Tuesday, April 21.
He had battled an undisclosed ailment.
According to Wikipedia, Akinjide was born in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on November 4, 1930 to an influential family of warriors.
He attended Oduduwa College, Ile-Ife from where he passed out in Grade One (Distinction, Aggregate 6).
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He proceeded to the United Kingdom in 1951 for his higher education and was called to the English Bar in 1955 and later to the Nigerian Bar. He established his law firm, Akinjide & Co soon after.
A frontline Yoruba leader, Akinjide served as Minister of Education in the first republic, during the government of Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa and Minister for Justice in the second republic, during the administration of President Shehu Shagari.
He was a member of the judicial systems sub-committee of the Constitutional Drafting Committee of 1975-1977 and later joined the National Party of Nigeria in 1978. He became the legal adviser for the party and was later appointed the Minister for Justice.
He was a chieftain of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
