A former governor of Kwara State and a one-time minister of communications, Chief Cornelius Adebayo, is dead. He was 84.
Born on February 24, 1941, in Igbaja in the present-day Ifelodun local government area of the state, Chief Adebayo died in the early hours of Wednesday. The late Adebayo was elected as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, running for the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) in 1979.
He became the governor of Kwara State in 1983 and later became a minister under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
