Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday, May 20, announced that the Federal University, Oye Ekiti has been named after late Major General Adeyinka Adebayo.

The university is now Adeyinka Adebayo University, Oye Ekiti.

Osinbajo made this known at the funeral of the former Governor of Old Western State currently holding at Iyin Ekiti, the country home of the General.

Dignitaries at the occasion include Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose: Secretary, Yoruba Council of Elders, Dr Kunle Olajide: former Registrar of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Chief Olu Ajayi: President of Ekitiparapo in Lagos, Chief Esan Ogunleye: former House of Representatives member, Hon Opeyemi Bamidele and and National Assembly member Hon Akin Awodumila among others.

The rites of passage for the late Adebayo, who died on March 8, in a Lagos hospital at the age of 89, began in Lagos on Wednesday and continued in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Thursday before his body was moved to Ekiti State on Friday ahead of burial slated for Iyin Ekiti on Saturday.

Source: an24.net