Cornelius Adebayo

Cornelius Adebayo
Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo
Governor, Kwara State, Nigeria
In office
1983–1983
Preceded by Adamu Atta
Succeeded by Salaudeen Latinwo
Federal Minister of Communications, Nigeria
In office
July 2003 – August 2006
Preceded by Haliru Mohammed Bello
Succeeded by Obafemi Anibaba
Personal details
Born 24 February 1941 (1941-02-24) (age 70)
Oke-Onigbin, Kwara State
Profession Teacher, Politician

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.[1][2]

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Background

Cornelius Olatunji Adebayo was born on February 24, 1941 in Igbaja in Kwara State. He was educated at all Saints Anglican School, Oke-Onigbin, Provincial Secondary School, Ilorin and then at Barewa College, Zaria from 1962-1963. He studied as the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1964–1967), and then at the University of Ghana, Legon (1967–1969). He became a teacher at the University of Ife in 1969, and in 1973 was appointed head of the English Department at Kwara State College of Technology. Between 1975 and 1978 he was Commissioner for Education and later Commissioner for Information and Economic Development in in Kwara State.[3]

Early political career

When the reforms instituted by the military ruler Lt. Gen. 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. In 1983 he was elected governor of Kwara state, but lost the position in December 1983 when the military overthrew led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari took control.[1]

In 1993 Adebayo was offered a ministerial office by the military regime of General Sani Abacha, but turned it down.[1] After a May 31, 1995 bomb explosion in Ilorin, capital of Kwara State, the police arrested and interrogated Adebayo and other members of the National Democratic Coalition, a group that called for the return of democracy during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.[4] In 1996, after finding he was scheduled to be arrested again, he fled the country in disguise for a brief exile in Canada.[1]

Obasanjo period

In June 2003, president Obasanjo nominated Adebayo for a ministerial post.[1] As minister of Communications, Corlenius Adebayo said his colleagues should not be carried away by fantastic returns that had been reported by the mobile phone company MTN Nigeria. He 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.[5] In September 2005 he was a keynote speaker at the 4th International Nigerian Telecommunications Summit in Abuja.[6]

Adebayo pushed for privatization of NITEL, the state telecommunications company.[7] In September 2005 he said the sale of a controlling stake in NITEL would be completed by the end of the year. Bidders included Vodacom and MTN Group of South Africa, Huawei Technologies, Orascom Telecom of Egypt and Celtel International.[8] In April 2006, Mtel, the Mobile subsidiary of NITEL, announced plans to add 2.5 million lines of capacity. The Board of Mtel, chaired by Cornelius Adebayo, had approved the program in September 2005. The vendors were Ericcson, Huawei, ZTE, Motorola, Nokia and Siemens.[9] A local company founded in 2005, Transnational Corporation of Nigeria, acquired NITEL on July 3, 2006.[10]

In September 2006, Cornelius Adebayo became Minister of Works, replacing Engineer Obafemi Anibaba.[2]

Subsequent career

In 2007, a Munich Court found Siemens AG guilty of misconduct and unethical contract dealings by allegedly offering bribes to Cornelius Adebayo and others to secure contracts for telecommunications equipment.[11] According to court papers, former ministers Bello Mohammed, Tajudeen Olarenwaju, Cornelius Adebayo and Alhaji Elewi were paid over $17 million dollars as bribes to secure contracts.[12] In November 2007 President Umaru Yar'Adua ordered security agencies to investigate and prosecute the named officials.[13] The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) invited Adebayo for questioning related to involvement in the Siemens bribe scandal during his spell as communication minister.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Dr. Femi Ajayi (July 7, 2003). "THE FEISTY Coooooooooooooooooooo AND THE CRITICS ABOUT HIS MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT". NigeriaWorld. http://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/ajayi/070703.html. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  2. ^ a b Usman Adams (15 September 2009). "Oweto-Loko Bridge Project: 15 Years After The Journey So Far". Leadership Nigeria. http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/index.php/columns/views/issues/6018-oweto-loko-bridge-project-15-years-after-the-journey-so-far. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  3. ^ Kazeem Akintunde and Kunle Binuyo (15 February 2009). "Birthdays". Newswatch. http://www.newswatchngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=645&Itemid=34. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  4. ^ "Africa Denounces Arrests of Human Rights and Pro-Democracy Activists and Continuing Disintegration of Rule of Law". Human Rights Watch. June 8, 1995. http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Urgent_Action/Niegeria1.html. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  5. ^ Basil Okafor (December 6, 2004). "MINISTER CORNELIUS ADEBAYO CAUTIONS HIS COLLEAGUES: ‘Not everyone is making money like MTN’". The Sun. http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/cybersun/2004/dec/06/cybersun-dec6-2004-004.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  6. ^ "The Fourth International Nigerian Telecommunications Summit". The CWC Group. 19–20 September 2005. http://www.thecwcgroup.com/UserFiles/Con_File/Nigeria%20Telecoms%20Conference%20Brochure.pdf. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  7. ^ "Nigeria turns talk into communication". World Focus Ltd.. http://www.worldfocusgroup.com/reports/nigeria/main.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  8. ^ "NITEL six preparing bids; sale due by year end". PriMetrica, Inc.. 7 September 2005. http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=8913. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  9. ^ "Nigerian Operator Doubling Network Capacity". Cellular News. 3 April 2006. http://www.cellular-news.com/story/16784.php. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  10. ^ "Corporate Information". TransCorp. http://www.transcorpnigeria.com/corporateinformation/index.php?pageid=6&portfolio=1. Retrieved 2009-11-26. [dead link]
  11. ^ "SIEMENS AG €12 MILLION SCANDAL: MORE QUESTIONS!". Point Blank News. http://www.pointblanknews.com/os656.html. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  12. ^ "Siemens Bribery Scandal: Jubril Aminu, 4 Ex-Ministers Exposed!!!". The Times of Nigeria. November 16, 2007. http://ofilis1234.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/names-of-nigerian-ministers-bribed-by-siemens-revealed/. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  13. ^ "Siemens Bribery Scandal- Nigerian President Orders Probe". ITNewsAfrica.com. November 20, 2007. http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=428. Retrieved 2009-11-26. 
  14. ^ "Nigeria: Siemens - ICPC Probes Aminu, Adebayo, Others". http://allafrica.com/stories/200711200137.html. 



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