[5] He then moved back to Ebenezer African Church School, Ibadan, where he completed his primary education in 1960.
[7] He was elected as a Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Nigeria from January 1992 to November 1993 during the Nigerian Third Republic,[8] on the Social Democratic Party (SDP) platform.
[2] He was forced to leave office when the military regime of general Sani Abacha took power.
[11] On 29 June 2006 President Olusegun Obasanjo commended him for the work he had done leading Ondo State, saying "You have taken time to plan.
[13][14] On 3 October 2013, a day before his burial, Associated Aviation Flight 361, carrying his corpse together with 13 passengers and 7 crew members, crashed on takeoff from Murtala Muhammed International Airport.