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Late Alaafin’s Son, Bayo Adeyemi, Dies

Segun Atanda/

Prince Adebayo Adeyemi, one of  sons of late Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, is dead.

Newsmakerslive.org learned that the prince, popularly called D-Gov, died of diabetes complication at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, in the early hours of today.

Sources said he had been ill for sometime and received treatment in America. He returned to Nigeria to recuperate.

The late Adebayo had lost his mum, Olori Kafayat Adeyemi, about two months after Alaafin Adeyemi’s death. She died in America.

Adeyemi was the immediate past Chairman of Oyo State Local Government Pension Board.

He contested the House of Representattives seat in Oyo Federal Constituency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2019, but lost to his brother, Prince Akeem Adeyemi.

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