Akure Socialite, Ade Basket Dies Weeks After Wife’s Burial

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.

This was revealed by The Hope Newspaper 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.

Newspotng gathered 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.