The Chairman of Otto-Awori Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, Prince Musbau Ashafa is dead, reports thegazellenews.com
Ashafa, a prince of Ijanikin kingdom, thegazellenews.com learnt, died late Friday, 13 June, 2025 after an undisclosed illness that took some months.
This medium learnt that Ashafa has not been seen in public for sometimes while most of the Council’s activities requiring his attention were being performed by his Chief of Staff and younger brother, Waliu Ashafa.
Ashafa is serving his second term as Chairman of the Council. Before becoming the Council Chairman, he was the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Otto-Awori LCDA.
Ashafa rose into prominence in 1997 during the Late General Sanni Abacha military rule when he was elected Chairman of the old Ojo Local Government in the Zero Party Election.
Since then, he has been active in the politics of the Ojo axis which later culminated in his becoming the local APC Chairman and the substantive Chairman of the Council.
