Afolabi Olabimtan (11 June 1932 – 27 August 2003) was a Nigerian

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, and

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. He was born in

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and was later the

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for Ogun West from 1999 to 2003. He died in a motor accident in August 2003. Olabimtan achieved a PhD at the

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in African Languages. He became an expert in the

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, and wrote a number of

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s in the tongue, such as ''Kekere Ekun'' in 1967 and ''Ayanmo'' in 1973. In 1999, Olabimatan was elected as a

for the Alliance for Democracy party for Ogun West. He served just one term, standing down in 2003 in order to allow a younger successor to take his place. Later in the same year he was killed in a motor accident.

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