 Bode Thomas

Chief Bode Thomas (October 1919–23 November 1953) was a Nigerian lawyer, politician, statesman and traditional aristocrat.A Yoruba tribesman, Thomas served with distinction as both a colonial minister of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria and a nobleman and privy counsellor of the historic Oyo clan of Yorubaland at a time when his native country was just beginning the journey to its independence in the 1960s.