Taiwo Ogunjobi, former Nigeria
Football Federation secretary general, is dead.
Ogunjobi, chairman of Osun state
Football Association, died in UCH Ibadan on Monday morning.
Tunde Shamsudeen, Ogunjobi’s
personal assistant on media, told TheCable: “He felt unwell and went to the
hospital on Saturday and the doctor put him on bed rest.”
“He told me to represent him at
the Osun SWAN award last night in Osogbo.
“I am shocked to hear that he
died this morning.
“I didn’t know that he told me
good bye forever for the last time on Saturday.”
Taiwo Ogunjobi was one of the
pillars of the IICC Shooting Stars in the seventies and a member of the
Shooting stars team that won the African Cup Winners Cup gold medal in 1975.
The former NFF’s secretary
general was also a major part of Nigerian football administration for a long
time.
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