Akerele, a veteran broadcaster, worked with the Ondo State Radio Vision Corporation (OSRC), and was appointed a commissioner during the first term of Governor Olusegun Mimiko.
Prior to his untimely death, he was said to be hale and hearty on Monday evening before retiring to his bedroom.
According to a source, Akerele was said to have taken his wife, Lucy, who was sick to the hospital for treatment and had to return home while the sick woman was placed on admission.
The source said the former commissioner came home with his driver and one of his domestic staff after the wife was admitted at the hospital around 9pm and instructed the domestic staff to put off the generating set around 12 midnight.
He said the security man was however surprised not to see the commissioner outside around 9am on Tuesday, which he said was unusual but after knocking on the door severally with no response, decided to peep through the window and found the former commissioner in bed but without response.
He said: "we had to break the door and found his lifeless body on the bed. He was rushed to an hospital where he was confirmed dead."
Reacting to Akerele's on behalf of the state government, the state Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade described his death as sad, sudden and shocking as the late Akerele was full of life with no sign of sickness till Monday night when he retires to sleep.
Akinmade, who described Akerele as an hardworking man, urged the people of the state "to take solace in the fact that while alive he served the state in different capacities and was able to contribute his quota to the development of the state."
Akinmade however condole with the wife, children and family of the late former commissioner and prayed to God to grant them the fortitude to bear the loss.
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