The former governor of defunct Western Region of Nigeria, Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, has died. Family sources said the 89-year-old passed on in his sleep.
Adebayo was born in 1928, the son of a Public Works employee from Iyin Ekiti, near Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. He became governor of then Western Region after Col. Francis Adekunle Fajuyi’s was killed in the 1966 coup d’état.
He governed from 4 Aug 1966 to April 1971.
He was commissioned as an officer in the Royal West African Frontier Force as the 23rd West African military officer with number WA23 and 7th Nigerian military officer with number N7 after completing the War Office Cadet Training in Eaton Hall, England.
Adebayo also attended the Staff College course in Camberley in 1960 and the prestigious Imperial Defence College, London in late 1965 where he was the only African officer.
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