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

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, and

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. He was born in

Ogun State Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. It is bordered to the south by Lagos State and the Bight of Benin, to the east by Ondo State, and to the north by Oyo and Osun states while its western border forms part of the national borde ...

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

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at the

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in African Languages. He became an expert in the

Yoruba language Yoruba (, ; Yor. ) is a Niger–Congo languages, Niger-Congo language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in South West (Nigeria), Southwestern and Middle Belt, Central Nigeria, Benin, and parts of Togo. It is spoken by the Yoruba people. ...

, 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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