Popular Akure socialite and political thug, Adeleye Fayehun, better known as Ade Basket, is dead.
Ade Basket died in the early hours of Wednesday after an undisclosed illness.
The state-owned newspaper, The Hope, reports that the socialite has been in hospital for a few weeks before his passing.
This came a few weeks after the death of his wife, Atinuke Fayehun, who was recently buried in late October 2026.
Ade Basket was arrested in July 2016 for assaulting a pregnant woman, leaving her in a coma.
Ade Basket, who has repeatedly been linked in news reports to violence and gang leadership working with political parties and figures, gained prominence in the early 2000s.
