Mr Alao-Akala’s death was confirmed by the spokesperson of his party, APC, Olatunde Abdulazeez, in an interview with Punch newspapers on Wednesday.A source close to the former governor told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Alao-Akala, who had been battling a terminal ailment, died Wednesday in his room in Ogbomoso, his country home.
Before he became governor, he was deputy to a former governor, Rashidi Ladoja, between 2003 and 2006, before Mr Ladoja was controversially impeached which consequently made him the acting governor for eleven months.He, however, governed Oyo State on the platform of theHe was also the governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party in the state during the 2019 general elections.
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