The Director General of Michael Imoudu National Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS), Ilorin Comrade Issa Aremu mni, NPOM has commiserated with Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq of Kwara state on the death of Chief Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo, a former senator and ex-governor of Kwara state.
The second democratically elected Governor during the Second Republic passed on Wednesday morning at 84 years of age.
In a statement in Ilorin the Director General of MINILS said Nigeria’s progressive political community had lost a rare statesman, nationalist and a principled Progressive democrat in Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo . Aremu recalled that the late statesman commendably struggled against military rule and together with other compatriots entrenched democratic rule.
Born on 24 February 1941, the late Governor was at various times a lecturer at the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), a Second Republic Senator and later Governor of Kwara State and Minister of Communications and Transportation between 2003 and 2007. the Director General observed that very few are as successful in politics like Chief Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo who was a Governor, Senator and Minister ( GSM).
Aremu said Chief Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo would be remembered for his steadfastness in progressive politics and his bold imprint on public education as a teacher and administrator.
The Director General prays that his family bears the strength to fill the vacuum of the departed statesman.