BREAKING: Popular Akure socialite, Ade Basket dies weeks after wife's burial
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Popular Akure socialite and political thug, Adeleye Fayehun, better known as Ade Basket, is dead.
Ade Basket died in the early hours of Wednesday after an undisclosed illness.
The state-owned newspaper, The Hope, reports that the socialite has been in hospital for a few weeks before his passing.
This came a few weeks after the death of his wife, Atinuke Fayehun, who was recently buried in late October 2026.
DAILY POST reports that Ade Basket was arrested in July 2016 for assaulting a pregnant woman, leaving her in a coma.
Ade Basket, who has repeatedly been linked in news reports to violence and gang leadership working with political parties and figures, gained prominence in the early 2000s.
BREAKING: Popular Akure socialite, Ade Basket dies weeks after wife's burial
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- Length
- 129 words · 1 min read
- Published
- November 11, 2026
- Byline
- Racheal Ayodele
- Source
- Daily Post