Abraham Adesanya

Chief Abraham Aderibigbe Adesanya // ^ⓘ (24 July 1922 – 27 April 2008) was a Nigerian politician, lawyer, activist, welfarist, and liberal progressive. He was a member of the Action Group, on whose platform he was elected to the Western House of Assembly to represent Ijebu-Igbo constituency in 1959. He served in the Nigerian Senate during the Second Republic under the Unity Party of Nigeria. He was a leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, and a founding member of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), whose activism contributed to the return of democratic rule in 1999.