Chief Sunday Adedayo Adewusi, Asiwaju Of Ogbomosoland
Leader, Ogbomoso Community Foundation
 Chief Sunday Adedayo Adewusi
“Seest that a man
diligent in his work? He shall stand
before Kings: he shall not stand
before mean men.” (Proverbs 22:29)
The Biblical
quotation above cannot be more
fulfilled in any other human life
than in the life of Chief Sunday
Adedayo Adewusi. This becomes doubly
true when one considers the glowing
achievements he has been able to
pack into his sojourn on the face of
the earth. Recall that he became the
youngest Commissioner of Police to
be appointed at a tender age of 32.
He also became the Inspector General
of police at the age of 45,
superceding those that were senior
in rank to him.
The Asiwaju of
Ogbomoso, Chief Sunday Adedayo
Adewusi was of humble parentage and
background. Born some 70 years ago
in the Nassarawa Eggon LGA of
Nassarawa State to the family of Pa
Abraham Ishola Adeyinka Adewusi and
Princess Eyiolawi Abeje.
It was at Mada
Station that the Asiwaju Sunday
Adewusi began his educational
career. He attended both the Church
Missionary Society and Roman
Catholic Mission Schools from 1944
to 1948 where he demonstrated his
unparalled academic prowess. He
proceeded to Baptist Day School, Jos
between 1949 and 1950 to complete
his Standard Six education.
The Asewaju later
continued his educational pursuit,
this time around; his secondary
education was at keffi from 1951 to
1956. there, he showed was and
demonstrated his strong moral
discipline and leadership potential
coupled with academic excellence.
All these contributed to his being
made a school prefect. He discharged
his duties as a prefect with a very
high sense of justice to such an
enviable extent that one of his
teachers advised him to consider a
career in the police since he is a
highly disciplined individual and
the Police is known to be a
disciplined force.
He joined the
Nigeria Police Force and had his
basic police training at the Police
College from 1957 to 1958 as a cadet
sub-inspector.
While in training, he
distinguished himself very
outstandingly and upon completion of
the course, he won the cane of
Honour. He proceeded to the Man O’
War Bay course in Southern Cameroon
in 1958 and graduated as the overall
best police officer.
He continued his
various trainings in police duties,
and at the same time, gamering
experience, so also he was being
appointed and elevated to higher
positions in his high qualification,
seriousness of purpose, strong sense
and dedication to duty, when the
position of the ADC to the then
Governor-General of Nigeria, the Rt.
Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, was to be
filled, he was among the fourteen
(14) outstanding police officers
short listed to be interviewed and
considered by the Governor-General
himself. He came out tops and was
subsequently appointed ADC to the
Governor-General.
He once again,
demonstrated his uncanny expertise
and dexterity with strong
Organizational capability to the
extent that he was asked to anchor
the State Banquet Ceremony on the
day Nigeria became a Republic. (It
is worthy of note; to say that the
job has always been the exclusive
preserve of the Federal Director of
Information). As the Master of
Ceremony for the occasion, he
performed so brilliantly to the
admiration of all the invited guests
and won himself a standing ovation.
It must be emphasized that Chief
Adewusi had always had the ears and
respect of his bosses, such was the
closeness between him and the farm
‘Zik of Africa’ that years later,
Zik remarked, on a visit to Kwara
State, while Brig. Theophilus
Bamigboye (rtd.) was in charge “ If
you had been with the Sardauna of
Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello. They were
known to have shared many
‘confidences’.
He continued his upward climb to the
top echelon of the Police Force
through various opportunities for
training and appointments. Another
opportunity presented itself for him
again, when in 1964, he had to go to
the police Staff College in Scotland
for another advanced training to
qualify him for top management
positions in the Force. He was also
opportuned to study the operation of
Force at an advanced level at East
Ridding Constabulary, Lancashire,
Yorskshire
He was equally
positioned to study practical
policing and the structural
administrative, political and
policing system in various overseas
countries. He also attended seminars
and undertook study visits to
countries in Europe, Asia and
America. His disciplined approach to
matters and careful attention to
details earned him frequent, rapid
and well-deserved promotions as a
career police officer. He was a
sub-Inspector of Police in 1957.
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