The former governor of Oyo State, Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, is dead. 

He was reported to have died in the early hours of Wednesday in his native home in Ogbomosho.

Akala, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was a former governor of the state, between 2007 and 2011.

He was also a deputy governor under former governor, Rashidi Ladoja between 2003 and 2006, when Chief Ladoja was impeached and consequently became the acting governor for eleven months.

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