 In 1993 Adebayo was offered a ministerial office by the military regime of General Sani Abacha, but turned it down.After a May 31, 1995 bomb explosion in Ilorin, capital of Kwara State, the police arrested and interrogated Adebayo and other members of the National Democratic Coalition, a group that called for the return of democracy during the military regime of General Sani Abacha.In 1996, after finding he was scheduled to be arrested again, he fled the country in disguise for a brief exile in Canada.