Alao akala biography sample

Nigerian politician and police officer (1950–2022)

Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala (3 June 1950 – 12 January 2022) was a Nigerian politician and police officer who served as the governor of Oyo State in 2006, and again from 2007 to 2011.

He was the candidate of the Action Democratic Party in the 2019 Oyo State gubernatorial election.^[1][2]

Alao-Akala previously served as deputy governor of Oyo State from May 2003 to January 2006 succeeding Rashidi Ladoja when he was impeached, but later reverting to the office when Ladoja was reinstated in December 2006.

He was elected governor in 2007, and lost reelection in 2011 to Abiola Ajimobi of the Action Congress of Nigeria.

Early years

Born on 3 June 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.^[3] Alao-Akala proceeded to the Kamina Barracks Middle School, 5th Battalion of Infa