Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo, a former senator and ex-governor
of Kwara state, has passed on.
TheCable quoting Family sources disclosed that Adebayo died early
Wednesday morning in Abuja.
He was 84 years of age.
Born on February 24, 1941, in Igbaja community of Kwara,
Adebayo was governor of the state in 1983.
He was minister of communications from 2003 to 2006 and was
elected senator on the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) platform in 1979.
Adebayo was a member of the National Democratic Coalition
(NADECO) as pro-democracy activists sought to reclaim the mandate handed to MKO
Abiola in the June 12, 1993 presidential election.
In 1993, Adebayo was offered a ministerial position in the
Sani Abacha junta but declined.
On May 31, 1995, a bomb exploded in Ilorin, the Kwara
capital. The police arrested and grilled Adebayo and other members of NADECO
over the incident.
He fled the country in 1996 for a brief exile in Canada as the junta reportedly closed in on him for a second time.
Adebayo is credited with a slew of education reforms in
Kwara as the state’s education commissioner from 1975 to 1978.
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