The former
governor of the now defunct Western State of Nigeria, Major General
Robert
Adeyinka Adebayo, is dead. Family sources said the 89-year-old died in his
sleep.
Late Major General Adeyinka Adebayo |
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.
Source: Punchng.com
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