Ex-Kwara governor Cornelius Adebayo dies at 84
A former governor of Kwara State, Chief Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo, has died at the age of 84 years.
He was said to have died early Wednesday morning in Abuja.
Born on February 24, 1941, in Igbaja community of Kwara, Adebayo was governor of Kwara 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, he 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.
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