Otunba Christopher Alao-Akala, a former Governor of Oyo
State, is dead.
Details of his death are sketchy but sources close to the
politician confirmed the tragic incident to our correspondent, on Tuesday.
The politician had been battling terminal ailment for a
while, according to sources.
Akala, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was a former governor of the state, between 2007 and 2011.
He was also a deputy governor under former governor, Rashidi
Ladoja between 2003 and 2006, when Chief Ladoja was impeached and consequently
became the acting governor for eleven months.
Born on June 3, 1950, at Ogbomoso in the Ogbomoso North
Local Government Area of Oyo State, Alao-Akala had his elementary school at
Osupa Baptist Day School, Ogbomoso before proceeding to Kamina Barracks Middle
School, 5th Battalion of Infantry in Tamale, Ghana.
This is the third known death of a prominent Ogbomosho
native in a month.
On December 12, 2021, Oba Oladunni Oyewumi, the Soun of
Ogbomoso, passed on.
On January 8, 2022, Prof Taibat Danmole, his daughter who
was a lecturer at the Lagos State University (LASU), also died.
The deceased, who was a professor of education was married
to another university don, Prof. Hakeem Danmole, who is the Dean College of
Humanities and Social Sciences at the Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin.
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