Pepperito: Senator Bayo Osinowo, member representing Lagos East Senatorial District is dead.
He died at the age of 64 at the First Cardiologist Hospital, Lagos, on Monday, the same place where President Muhammadu Buhari’s then-chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died of coronavirus complications in April.
An unconfirmed report said that, Bayo Osinowo popularly known as (Pepperito), an All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker, who was a former member of Lagos State House of Assembly for 16 years, died of COVID-19 complications.
The 64-year-old businessman, Pepperito represented Kosofe Constituency in the Lagos State House of Assembly for four terms between 2003 and 2019.
He was elected into the upper chamber of the National Assembly last year on the platform of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC).
He had been a managing director at NIMCO International Co. Ltd, a civil and building engineering firm, between 1990 to 2003.
Pepperito was also managing director at NITAL International, and previously worked with the Federal Ministry of Works, Lagos State.
