Afolabi Olabimtan

Afolabi Olabimtan (June 11 1932 - August 27 2003) was a Nigerian politician, writer, and academic.cite web | url = http://www.nigeriacongress.org/SENATE/senatordetails.asp?id=348 | title = Nigerian Congress:Senators of the Fourth Republic (1999-2001) | accessdate = 2006-08-01 ] He was born in Ogun State and was later the senator for Ogun West from 1999 to 2003. He died in a motor accident in August 2003.cite news | title = Abiola detention saga: My story —BABATOPE | first = Adedayo | last = Aminu | date = 2003-10-30 | url = http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2003/oct/30/0011.html | accessdate = 2006-08-01 ]

Olabimtan achieved a PhD at the University of Lagos in African Languages. He became an expert in the Yoruba language, and wrote a number of novels in the tongue, such as Kekere Ekun in 1967 and Ayanmo in 1973.

In 1999, Olabimatan was elected as a senator 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. [cite news | title = Olabimtan: Obasanjo Condoles Daniel | url = http://www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2003/09/02/20030902pol03.html | first = Josephine | last = Lohor | date = 2004-11-15 | accessdate = 2006-08-01 | publisher = Thisday ] Later in the same year he was killed in a motor accident.

His death preceded the release of his autobiography, "The Graces, the Grass and the Gains". This contained the claim that, in a 1994 meeting, a number of Yoruba leaders had supported the continued imprisonment of Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, in return for bribes in the form of money and political positions. [cite news | title = Secret document exposes Yoruba betrayal of MKO | url = http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2003/oct/03/144.html | first = Sola | last = Shittu | date = 2003-10-03 | accessdate = 2006-08-01 ] Those accused of attending the meeting, such as Ebenezer Babatope, have denied knowledge of it.

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