Ex-Oyo Gov Alao-Akala, dies at 71
A former Governor of Oyo State, Chief Alao-Akala, is dead.
Akala was the governor of the state between 2007 and 2011.
Family sources said the politician, who had been battling terminal ailment for a while, died in his room at his Ogbomoso country home, on Wednesday morning.
Alao-Akala was a former police officer and a former Deputy Governor to Chief Rashidi Ladoja.
He became governor when Ladoja was impeached.
He was a candidate of the ADP in the 2019 governorship election in Oyo State before defecting to the APC.
Born on June 3, 1950, at Ogbomoso in the Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State, Alao-Akala had his elementary school at Osupa Baptist Day School, Ogbomoso.
He later proceeded to Kamina Barracks Middle School, 5th Battalion of Infantry in Tamale, Ghana.
Alao-Akala’s death comes barely a month after the death on December 12, 2021, of Oba Oladunni Oyewumi, the Soun of Ogbomoso, the paramount ruler of his own community.
