Chief Victor Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode// ⓘ, Q.C., SAN, CON (22 December 1921 – October 1995) was a leading Nigerian politician, aristocrat, nationalist, statesman and lawyer.

Emmanuel Adedapo Kayode, was an Anglican Priest, who had got his Master of Arts degree from Fourah Bay College, which at that time was part of Durham University.

He had also got his Master of Arts degree from Fourah Bay College and later went on to become the principal of the famous CMS Grammar School in Lagos, serving from 1896 to 1914.

He set up a youth wing for the party, who wore "black shirts" and used the "mosquito" as their emblem to reflect their disdain for British colonial rule.

[2] Again, in 1954, Oloye Fani-Kayode was elected into the Federal House of Assembly on the platform of Chief Obafemi Awolowo's Action Group, and he continued his fight for Nigeria's Independence from there.

He, alongside Chief Awolowo, S. O. Ighodaro, E. O. Eyo, Adeyemi Lawson and S. G. Ikoku, represented the Action Group at the 1957 London Constitutional Conference.

[2] In 1963, he was elected Deputy Premier of the old Western Region of Nigeria under Chief Samuel Akintola, on the platform of the Nigerian National Democratic Party.

[2] In the early hours of the morning of 15 January 1966, Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, a Nigerian Army officer, attempted to effect the first military coup d'état in the history of Nigeria.

The attempt, though ultimately unsuccessful, resulted in a lot of bloodshed and many senior members of the ruling party, the military and the government of the day, were brutally killed.

Early that morning, the coupists, under the command of Captain Emmanuel Nwobosi, stormed and attacked the home of Remi Fani-Kayode, the Deputy Premier of the Western Region.

However, luckily for him, on arrival at the Ikeja military cantonment in Lagos, the mutineers were overpowered, overwhelmed and killed by loyalist troops under the command of Lt. Col. Yakubu Gowon (who later became Nigeria's Head of State).

Some of the key government officials and senior military figures that were attacked in their homes that night, included Ahmadu Bello (the Premier of the Northern Region), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (the Prime Minister), Okotie-Eboh (the Minister of Finance), General Maimalari (the Chief of Army Staff), Brigadier Ademulegun(Commander of the Northern Garrison).

Consequently, General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took over power from the remnants of the Tafawa Balewa government on 16 January, the day after successfully foiling Major Nzeogwu's mutiny and violent coup attempt.

[1] Between 1990 and 1994, he was a member of the elders caucus of the National Republican Convention (NRC), one of the two political parties set up by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida during Nigeria's third republic.

In 1994, the government of General Sanni Abacha appointed him into the Justice Kayode Eso panel of inquiry, which effectively probed and helped to sanitise the Nigerian judiciary and rid it of corrupt judges.