- Lagos APC chieftain Ganiyu Oseni died on Wednesday July 1, 2026.
- Aremo of Epe, Otunba T.J. Abass, mourned him as a generous, devoted friend of Eko Club International.
- A Jakande ally turned outspoken APC voice, Oseni’s life and death were both rooted in Lagos.
Alhaji Ganiyu Kolajo Oseni, a veteran All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and ally of the Eko Club International (ECI), is dead.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Oseni died on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, and will be buried on Thursday, July 2, at the Oke-Suna Muslim Cemetery, Ikoyi, Lagos, by 4pm, in line with Islamic rites.
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A prayer session for the repose of his soul will follow shortly after at Ebony Vaults, Ikoyi.
As of the time of reporting, the circumstances surrounding his demise were unclear.
But his family, who announced the development, described him as a devoted grandfather, father, brother and uncle whose passing has left a deep void in the household.
Professor Shaffdeen Amuwo, a friend of Oseni, broke the news of the demise to the ECI family, describing the development as a big loss to the club and Lagos as a whole.
The deceased was a close friend of ECI, the diaspora-based umbrella organisation of Lagos indigenes across the United States, Canada and Europe known for cultural preservation and community development work back home.
He was a regular presence at the group’s events in Lagos alongside dignitaries such as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Oba of Lagos, and frequently donated funds to support its projects.
Reacting to the news of his passing, a former ECI President, Otunba T.J. Abass, described Oseni’s death as a heartbreaking development.
“Alhaji Oseni was a close friend of Eko Club International and was often present at all our events with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Oba of Lagos,” Abass said.
He noted that the club had frequently benefited from Oseni’s generosity, recalling that he regularly donated funds to support its projects and was a consistent presence at its Lagos events.
“I am unaware of the details surrounding his death, but our beloved state has lost a dedicated Lagosian whose life was committed to its progress,” Abass stated.
He described Oseni as a man whose life was inseparable from Lagos itself. “Alhaji Kola Oseni’s entire life was centered around Lagos State. He walked Lagos, spoke Lagos, and it is no coincidence that he passed away in Lagos,” the Epe chief added, praying for the repose of his soul.
Oseni’s public life stretched back decades, rooted in a close political friendship with Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, Lagos State’s first civilian governor.
He was counted among Jakande’s trusted allies during the governor’s tenure, and lived out that loyalty in a personal way: when Jakande championed universal public education in the state, Oseni reportedly withdrew his own daughter from Corona Schools, a private school in Gbagada, and enrolled her in a public school, in step with the directives he had helped support.
That closeness to Lagos governance carried into his later years as an APC chieftain, where he became known as a forthright voice within party circles, unafraid to challenge power when he felt the interests of ordinary Lagosians or the sanctity of internal party democracy were at stake.
Ahead of the 2015 governorship contest, he cautioned the party against imposing a candidate, invoking Lagos’s own political history as a reminder of what grassroots discontent could produce.
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Through it all, colleagues and friends remember Oseni as a man whose politics never strayed far from a simple, consistent devotion to his home state; a devotion that, fittingly, in the words of Otunba Abass, saw him live, speak and ultimately pass on in the city he loved.
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