The death of the former Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) chairman and arguably the oldest football fan in Nigeria Pa Olayiwola Lankodoro has been announced on Thursday.
Lakondoro died in the early hours of Thursday at 111.
The 3SC Chairman, Babatunde Olaniyan, confirmed the death of the former Chairman on Thursday.
He added that the club was contacted in the early hours of Thursday.
He explained further that the club was already planning to visit the family.
Olaniyan said, “I can confirm that he is dead. We have been contacted on his death this morning and we are already planning to visit his family later”.
Lakondoro was a retired soldier, footballer and first Organising Secretary of the defunct Action Group (AG).
Pa Lakondoro was a foundation member of WNDC-Shooting Stars in 1963 and was the chairman of the club in 2014. Before his death, he was the only surviving member of Nigeria Footballers, named UK Tourists who traveled to Britain and played barefoot.
He was born on January 7,1912 to traditional worshiper parents, Pa Babalola Lankorodoro and Madam Ifaranti Lankorodoro of Ile Otun, Oje in Ibadan North East Local Government with their village at Saago Idiiya, Ido Local Government.
Pa lakondoro schooled at Oke Are Theological Seminary, Ibadan and St Finnbar, Lagos and taught briefly as a teacher before he joined the colonial army in 1939 for the 2nd World War which took him to Scotland, India, Trimia etc alongside the late Olubadan of Ibadan land also then an Officer
It was also gathered that he was the first Private Secretary of Alfred Rewane, a financier of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) and a close associate of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
