Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo is a former Senator of Nigeria, who became a state governor, and later was head of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Communications.
13 Facts About Cornelius Adebayo
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Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo was born on February 24,1941, in Igbaja in Kwara State.
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Cornelius Adebayo was educated at all Saints Anglican School, Oke-Onigbin, Provincial Secondary School, Ilorin and then at Barewa College, Zaria from 1962 to 1963.
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Cornelius Adebayo studied at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and at the University of Ghana, Legon.
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Cornelius Adebayo became a lecturer at the University of Ife in 1969, and in 1973 was appointed head of the English Department at Kwara State College of Technology.
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Olusegun Obasanjo led to democratic elections for the second republic in 1979, Adebayo was elected as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria running for the Unity Party of Nigeria.
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In 1993 Cornelius Adebayo was offered a ministerial office by the military regime of General Sani Abacha, but turned it down.
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Cornelius Adebayo described the need to grant incentives to telecommunications service providers, and spoke with approval of plans by Multi-Links Communications Nigeria to expand its switch capacity to 500,000 lines.
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Cornelius Adebayo pushed for privatization of NITEL, the state telecommunications company.
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The Board of Mtel, chaired by Cornelius Adebayo, had approved the program in September 2005.
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In September 2006, Cornelius Adebayo became Minister of Works, replacing Engineer Obafemi Anibaba.
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The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission invited Cornelius Adebayo for questioning related to involvement in the Siemens bribe scandal during his spell as communication minister.
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Cornelius Adebayo constructed a number of classrooms in secondary schools and contributed greatly to the abolition of the shift system of education in the state's primary schools by providing more infrastructural facilities.