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background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Ondo_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Ondo State">Governor of Ondo State</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1 October 1979 – 31 December 1983</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Deputy_Governor_of_Ondo_State" title="Deputy Governor of Ondo State">Deputy</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Akin_Omoboriowo" title="Akin Omoboriowo">Akin Omoboriowo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Tuoyo" title="Sunday Tuoyo">Sunday Tuoyo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Bamidele_Otiko" title="Michael Bamidele Otiko">Michael Bamidele Otiko</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1908-11-28</span>)</span>28 November 1908<br /><a href="/wiki/Owo" title="Owo">Owo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southern_Nigeria_Protectorate" title="Southern Nigeria Protectorate">Southern Nigeria Protectorate</a> (now in <a href="/wiki/Ondo_State" title="Ondo State">Ondo State</a>, Nigeria)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">3 October 1997<span style="display:none">(1997-10-03)</span> (aged 88)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Citizenship</th><td class="infobox-data">Nigeria</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data">Nigeria</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Unity_Party_of_Nigeria" title="Unity Party of Nigeria">Unity Party of Nigeria</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">Politician</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Michael Adekunle Ajasin</b> (<span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-labelElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" 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title="File:Yo-Michael Adekunle Ajasin.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>; 28 November 1908 – 3 October 1997) was a <a href="/wiki/Nigerians" title="Nigerians">Nigerian</a> <a href="/wiki/Politician" title="Politician">politician</a> who served as <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Ondo_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Ondo State">governor of Ondo State</a> from 1979 to 1983 on the <a href="/wiki/Unity_Party_of_Nigeria" title="Unity Party of Nigeria">Unity Party of Nigeria</a> (UPN) platform during the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Second_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian Second Republic">Nigerian Second Republic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wstate_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wstate-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Adekunle_Ajasin&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Michael Adekunle Ajasin was born in <a href="/wiki/Owo" title="Owo">Owo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ondo_State" title="Ondo State">Ondo State</a> on 28 November 1908. He attended St. Andrews College, <a href="/wiki/Oyo_State" title="Oyo State">Oyo</a> between (1924–1927). He worked as a teacher for some time, then was admitted to <a href="/wiki/Fourah_Bay_College" title="Fourah Bay College">Fourah Bay College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leone" title="Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a> in 1943, obtaining a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts degree</a> in English, Modern History and <a href="/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">Economics</a> in June, 1946. Following that, he went to the Institute of Education of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a> where he obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in June, 1947.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 12 September 1947, Ajasin was appointed Principal of Imade College, Owo, where he initiated an aggressive staff development program, including sending teachers to <a href="/wiki/University_College,_Ibadan" class="mw-redirect" title="University College, Ibadan">University College, Ibadan</a> for further training. In 1951 he wrote a paper that was to become the educational policy of the <a href="/wiki/Action_Group_(Nigeria)" title="Action Group (Nigeria)">Action Group</a> party, advocating free education at all levels. He was one of the founders of the party, whose other policies included immediate independence from Britain, <a href="/wiki/Universal_health_care" title="Universal health care">universal health care</a>, and abolition of want through effective economic policies. In December 1962, he left Imade College to become founder, proprietor and first principal of Owo High School from January 1963 to August, 1975, when he retired.<sup id="cite_ref-obit_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-obit-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Married_life">Married life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Adekunle_Ajasin&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Married life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He married Babafunke Tenabe, a teacher, on 12 January 1939. They had four children, two boys and two girls. One daughter, Mrs Olajumoke Anifowoshe, became <a href="/wiki/Attorney_general" title="Attorney general">attorney–general</a> and <a href="/wiki/Commissioner" title="Commissioner">commissioner</a> for Justice in Ondo State.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Adekunle_Ajasin&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ajasin was involved in Nigeria's pre-independence politics. In the 1950s, he was a national vice president of the <a href="/wiki/Action_Group_(Nigeria)" title="Action Group (Nigeria)">Action Group</a>, became an elected ward <a href="/wiki/Councillor" title="Councillor">councillor</a> and then chairman of Owo district council which was made up of Owo, Idashen, Emure Ile, Ipele, Arimogija, Ute, Elerenla, Okeluse and a few more villages. He was also elected to the Federal House of Representatives in Lagos.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a federal <a href="/wiki/Legislator" title="Legislator">legislator</a> from 1954 to 1966 before the military took over government. In 1976, he was chairman of Owo local government and joined the <a href="/wiki/Unity_Party_of_Nigeria" title="Unity Party of Nigeria">Unity Party of Nigeria</a> when the <a href="/wiki/Military_government" title="Military government">military government</a> started a new democratic dispensation. Ajasin was elected governor of Ondo State in 1979, with <a href="/wiki/Akin_Omoboriowo" title="Akin Omoboriowo">Akin Omoboriowo</a> as his running mate. Omoboriowo later fell out with him, and switched to the <a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Nigeria" title="National Party of Nigeria">National Party of Nigeria</a> (NPN), where he competed against Ajasin in the 1983 elections and was initially declared winner. Later the result was annulled and Ajasin was sworn in for a second term.<sup id="cite_ref-sun811_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sun811-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ajasin held office until the <a href="/wiki/Military_coups_in_Nigeria" title="Military coups in Nigeria">military coup</a> of 31 December 1983 that brought General <a href="/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari" title="Muhammadu Buhari">Muhammadu Buhari</a> to power. </p><p>As governor, Ajasin signed the law establishing the Ondo State University in 1982 in Ado-Ekiti, which is in present-day <a href="/wiki/Ekiti_State" title="Ekiti State">Ekiti State</a> of Nigeria. He said that </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I came into office in October 1979 with a set of my own rich native dresses and left office in December 1983 with same set of dresses; no addition and no substraction. I had two personal cars at the time I assumed office but left without any: one had ended its serviceable lifespan with its use for the shadow elections in 1982, while the other was borrowed by a political associate with whom it ended up its lifespan</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Vanguardngr, Ajasin was honourable and incorruptible</cite></div></blockquote> <p>In 2000, during the government of <a href="/wiki/Adebayo_Adefarati" title="Adebayo Adefarati">Chief Adebayo Adefarati</a>, a new university was created in Akungba Akoko and later named <a href="/wiki/Adekunle_Ajasin_University" title="Adekunle Ajasin University">Adekunle Ajasin University</a> in his honour.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also opened <a href="/wiki/The_Polytechnic,_Owo" class="mw-redirect" title="The Polytechnic, Owo">The Polytechnic, Owo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="NADECO">NADECO</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Adekunle_Ajasin&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: NADECO"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ajasin was a leader of the <a href="/wiki/National_Democratic_Coalition_(Nigeria)" title="National Democratic Coalition (Nigeria)">National Democratic Coalition</a> popularly known as NADECO in Nigeria. The <a href="/wiki/Coalition" title="Coalition">coalition</a> was formed to bring an end to the military government of <a href="/wiki/Sani_Abacha" title="Sani Abacha">Sani Abacha</a> and the regime to honour the electoral mandate given to <a href="/wiki/MKO_Abiola" class="mw-redirect" title="MKO Abiola">MKO Abiola</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1995, he was arrested by the military government of Abacha along with 39 other activists for holding an illegal political meeting.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michael_Adekunle_Ajasin&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-wstate-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-wstate_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria_federal_states.htm">"Nigeria States"</a>. 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