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Abayomi was elected a member of the
Legislative Council in 1938. When he resigned from both positions so he could go abroad for further studies, he precipitated a crisis. Rival candidates were
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Lagos. He left teaching in early 1914 to join the staff of the
African Hospital, Lagos. During World War I, he volunteered to work as a dresser at a main base hospital in the
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Two years later, in April 1952, Oba Adele II of Lagos gave him the title of
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reclamation schemes and up to one thousand acres reclaimed in
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was elected president. Abayomi was elected treasurer.
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