19 Facts About Adebayo Salami

Adebayo Ayoade Salami was a Nigerian accountant and politician who served as Senator representing the Osun State Central constituency at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic running on the Alliance for Democracy platform.

Adebayo Ayoade Salami was born on 26 July 1951, at his family home in Osogbo.

Adebayo Salami's mother, Rafatu Ayinke was a very industrious woman during her early days in life.

Adebayo Salami was both a trader and contractor in the days of ECN and NEPA.

Adebayo Salami studied accounting at Kwara State College of Technology, Ilorin between 1972 and 1974, and obtained the OND.

Adebayo Salami was at the famous Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, for his HND between 1976 and 1978.

Later on in the early 2000s Adebayo Salami received his Master of Business Administration degree from Imo State University.

Adebayo Salami was mobilized as a member of the National Youth Corps in 1978 and served the mandatory one year of national service as an accountant in the old Kaduna state.

Adebayo Salami was so hardworking and effective during his service year that the management of National Freight gave him a job by retaining him after his service year.

Adebayo Salami worked as a young accountant in that office and soon became the company's principal accountant.

The ambitious young man, Adebayo Salami, later left National Freight Company to set up Aolat Nigeria Limited, a civil engineering and construction firm there in Kaduna.

Adebayo Salami began to test the murky waters of Nigeria's politics in 1990 when he contested the post of Local Government Chairman, in the 8 December 1990 nation-wide council election and won.

Adebayo Salami won the ticket to become the NRC Governorship candidate for Osun State.

Adebayo Salami contested the 14 December 1991 governorship election in Osun state but lost narrowly to Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke of the SDP who became the first Governor of the newly formed Osun State in January 1992.

The Strategic Bayo Adebayo Salami weighed his options and teamed up in 1998 with the progressives, led by the late Bola Ige.

Adebayo Salami was given the Osun Central Senatorial ticket to contest as senator.

Adebayo Salami won that election in January 1999 and became a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in June 1999.

Adebayo Salami was the Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Labour and later the chairman of the Senate Committee on Culture and Tourism.

Senator Adebayo Salami was the chieftain of All Progressives Congress representing Osun State before his death in January 2021.