Orisadipe Obasa,Listenⓘ (January 1863 – 15 April 1940) was a Nigerian doctor and prince who played a significant role in the politics of Lagos in the first decades of the 20th century.
His paternal grandfather was the Oba Elekole of Ikole, Ekiti, and his mother was from the Abeokuta royal family of the Akija of Ikija.
[2] He was admitted to King's College, Taunton, where he again was a star pupil, and went on to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London.
During the Anglo-Ashanti wars, towards the end of the 19th century, he served in an expedition of the Lagos Constabulary in the Gold Coast colony.
He played an important role in public health campaigns in the Lagos Colony and the interior of southern Nigeria.
In 1902, Obasa married Charlotte Olajumoke, [a] daughter of the wealthy merchant Richard Beale Blaize, and was given a comfortable house as a wedding present.
In 1908, Obasa and Dr. John K. Randle founded the People's Union to agitate against the proposed water rates, which was the first political organisation in Nigeria.
[4] In 1911, Randle and Obasa seem to have travelled to London to make the case against Governor Frederick Lugard's proposal to declare that all lands were government property.