The writer kicked the bucket in Abuja on Saturday night after an undisclosed infirmity, as per Punch.
His passing is coming scarcely a year after the writer increased across the country distinction a year ago when he won the 2017 Nigeria Prize for Literature for his book, 'The Heresiad', a book of epic verse.
The perished was given a check of $100,000 (N37m) by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Company Limited.
Oke's gathering of lyrics entitled, The Heresiad, beat Ogaga Ifowodo's A Good Mourning, Tanure Ojaide's Songs of Myself: Quartet to guarantee the prize after an escalated arbitration process.
His companions have taken to Facebook to grieve his death.
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