Chief Akintunde Aduwo was born on 12 June 1938 and is a retired Nigerian Navy Vice Admiral who served as Chief of Naval Staff from 1980 to 1983 and as military governor of the Nigerian Western State from July 1975 to August 1975 during the military regime of General Murtala Muhammed.
13 Facts About Akintunde Aduwo
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Akin Aduwo was born on 12 June 1938 in Ode-Aye in Okitipupa, Ondo State.
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Akintunde Aduwo worked as a clerk, then as a cadet in the Merchant Marines where he obtained British Merchant Navy Sea Training and studied at the Liverpool College of Technology, Liverpool, England.
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In November 1962 Akintunde Aduwo transferred to Nigerian Navy as a sub-lieutenant.
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Akintunde Aduwo was appointed naval officer-in-charge of the Eastern Naval Patrol, then as a lieutenant took command of NNS Aanasa in 1964.
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Akintunde Aduwo was Military Governor of Western State for just one month, and then was posted to the Nigerian High Commission in India.
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General Olusegun Obasanjo said Akintunde Aduwo had been relieved of his appointment as governor to rescue him from the problem of the West "which had overwhelmed him".
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Akintunde Aduwo went for a course at the Indian National Defence College, and in 1977 was promoted commodore and appointed flag officer commanding the Nigerian Naval Flotilla.
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Akintunde Aduwo held this position until being appointed Chief of the Naval Staff on 15 April 1980 during the Shehu Shagari regime.
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Akintunde Aduwo became a leader of the Yoruba Unity Forum and attended several Yoruba Council of Elders meetings.
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Akintunde Aduwo had served for several years as an elder of the Yoruba people, holding the aristocratic titles of the Oloye Obateru of Aye and the Oloye Taarelase of Ile-Ife.
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Akintunde Aduwo was a delegate from Ondo State at the 2005 National Political Reform Conference.
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Akintunde Aduwo served on the logistics committee of the conference.