Adebayo Ayoade Salami (26 July 1951 – 7 January 2021) was a Nigerian politician who served as Senator representing the Osun State Central constituency at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic running on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform. He resumed office on 29 May 1999. After taking his seat in the Senate in June 1999, he was then appointed to committees on Public Accounts, Labor (vice-chairman), Power & Steel and Water Resources. In a May 2001 debate over importing beans from Burkina Faso, Bayo Salami was in the minority when he argued that whatever could be done to feed Nigerians and make food affordable to the people should be done. Salami died in the United States on 7 January 2021. Early life and education Adebayo Ayoade Salami was born on 26 July 1951, at his family home in Osogbo. Parents Adebayo's father was Busari Oladiti Salami, A well respected sanitary inspector that later became known as one of the political strategists for Osogbo. His mother, Rafatu Ayinke was a very industrious woman during her early days in life. She was both a trader and contractor in the days of ECN (Energy Commission of Nigeria) and NEPA (National Electric Power Authority). Early education "Amusa," as he was called as a child, which is the Yoruba domestication of the Islamic name Hamzat, attended Saint Michael's Primary School, Ilobu in today's Irepodun Local Government Area of Osun State. For his secondary school education, the young Amusa Adebayo Salami attended Ife-Olu Grammar School, and later, Akinorun grammar school Ikirun where he had his West African School Certificate in 1969. Then called Adebayo, he attended Oduduwa College in Ile-Ife for his Higher School Certificate Course between 1970 and 1971. Higher education Adebayo Salami studied accounting at Kwara State College of Technology, Ilorin between 1972 and 1974, and obtained the OND (Ordinary National Diploma). He was at the famous Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, for his HND between 1976 and 1978. Later on in the early 2000s Adebayo received his Master of Business Administration degree from Imo State University. National Youth Service Corps Adebayo was mobilized as a member of the National Youth Corps in 1978 and served the mandatory one year of national service as an accountant in the old Kaduna state. Adebayo Salami as a young accountant served at the Federal Government owned National Freight Company in Kaduna between 1978 and 1979.