Former Kwara Governor Cornelius Adebayo Dies at 84
Former Governor of Kwara State and one-time minister of communications, Chief Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo, is dead.
Born on February 24, 1941, in Igbaja in the present Ifelodun local government area of the state, Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo was educated at the All Saints Anglican School, Oke-Onigbin, Provincial Secondary School, Ilorin and then at Barewa College, Zaria from 1962 to 1963.
Between 1975 and 1978, he was Commissioner for Education and later Commissioner for Information and Economic Development in Kwara State.
In 1979, Adebayo was elected as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria running for the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN).
In 1983, he was elected governor of Kwara state, but was removed on 31, December 1983, when the military overthrow led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari took control and later became Minister during the Olusegun Obasanjo-led government in 1999.
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