The
former governor of the now defunct Western State of Nigeria, Robert
Adeyinka Adebayo, is dead.
Family
sources said the 89-year-old died in his sleep.
The
late Adebayo became governor after Col. Francis Adekunle Fajuyi’s death in
the 1966 coup d’état, ruling from 4 Aug 1966 to April 1971.
Adebayo
was born in 1928, the son of a Public Works employee from Iyin Ekiti, near Ado
Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.
He
was educated at All Saints School, Iyin-Ekiti, and later attended Eko Boys High
School and Christ’s School Ado Ekiti. He joined the West African Frontier Force
in 1948 as a regiment signaler and later completed the Officer Cadet Training
Course in Teshie, Ghana from 1950 to 1952.
After
passing the War Office Examination for Commonwealth cadets in 1952 as well as
the West African qualifying examination in 1953.
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.
He
later 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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