A former Governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao Akala is dead. He was 71-year-old.
Though details of the circumstances surrounding his death are sketchy as at press time, Akala was said to have died in his sleep on Wednesday morning.
However, it was contradictory gathered that he slumped and died before people could discover what happened to him.
Chief Alao-Akala, a former deputy governor during the Senator Rashidi Ladoja administration, was the governor of Oyo State between 2007 and 2011.
A top source in the All Progressive Congress (APC) who also confirmed Akala’s death said: “It is true, Oga is dead. He died early hour of Wednesday in his room in Ogbomoso. He was full of life last night. I heard he was playing with his children before he went to bed. We are in morning mood now.”
The late retired Assistant Commissioner of Police was said to have returned from Abuja on Tuesday.
An inside source said the Ogbomoso-born retired police officer was discovered dead when his kinsmen entered his room this morning.
The source further disclosed that Akala held a meeting with some people on Tuesday (yesterday).
Meanwhile, National Insight News reports an inside source as saying that the former governor woke up this morning and called one of his aides around 6am and instructed him to wake him up around 10am.
“The source revealed that they called Ambulance and team of doctors arrived hurriedly to attend to him but he was gone. His body has been deposited at a teaching hospital in Ogbomoso.”
