Otunba Christopher Alao-Akala, former governor of Oyo State is dead.
Alao-Akala was 71 and reportedly died early hours on Wednesday.
There were no reports of ill-health before now.
Though details of his death still remain sketchy as at the time of going to press, a report in The Nation said he left Abuja on Tuesday morning for Ilorin before proceeding to Ogbomosho where he reportedly died in the early hours of Wednesday.
Alao-Akala was born on June 3, 1950, at Ogbomoso in the Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State.
He had his elementary school at Osupa Baptist Day School, Ogbomoso before proceeding to Kamina Barracks Middle School, 5th Battalion of Infantry in Tamale, Ghana.