Human right lawyer, Bamidele Aturu died of high pressure sources working at Lagos State Teaching Hospital, Ikeja where he was rushed to when he fell ill told orijoreporter.
The 49-year-old lawyer was rushed to the hospital after he started feeling ill in the early hours of Wednesday but attempts made by doctors at the Emergency Unit to stabilize him were futile as he died later in the day.
Aturu, who came into prominence when, as a member of the National Youth Service Corps, he refused to shake the hand of a military administrator of Niger State, Col. Lawan Gwadabe in 1988 during his NYSC passing out parade declaring that the military had caused great harm to the democratic aspirations of Nigerians.
The late activist was nominated as a member of the ongoing national confab, but he renounced his membership, arguing that the conference was designed to achieve nothing.
