Otunba Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, a former Deputy Governor and later Governor of Oyo State, is dead. Alao-Akala was the governor of Oyo state between 2007 and 2011. Although the details of his death are still sketchy but sources close to the politician has confirmed it.

It has been widely reported that Alao-Akala who had been battling an unknown terminal ailment for a while, died in his Ogbomoso country home, on Wednesday morning.

On January 8, 2022, Prof Taibat Danmole, Alao-Akala’s daughter who was a lecturer at the Lagos State University (LASU), also died.

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 before proceeding to Kamina Barracks Middle School, 5th Battalion of Infantry in Tamale, Ghana.