Ex- Governor General Adeyinka Adebayo Is Dead

Former governor of the now defunct Western State of Nigeria, 1966–1971, Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, is dead. Adeyinka  was born in 1928.  He was educated at All Saints School, Iyin-Ekiti, and later attended Eko Boys High School and Christ’s School Ado Ekiti.

The late Adebayo became governor after Col. Francis Adekunle Fajuyi’s death in the 1966 coup d’état.May his soul rest in peace.