Adegboyega Oyetola
Adegboyega Oyetola was born on September 29 1954 in Iragbiji, Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State. He is the current and 9th governor of Osun State. He won the governorship election under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) on September 22, 2018. Before then, Oyetola was the Chief of Staff to Rauf Aregbesola, the former governor of the State.
He started his secondary education at Ifeoluwa Grammar School, Osogbo and graduated in 1972, after which he proceeded to the University of Lagos and graduated with a Bachelor of Science honors degree in Insurance in 1978. He later attended the mandatory one year National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Potiskum, the capital city of present day Yobe State, where he lectured at the Staff Training Centre between 1978 and 1979. He obtained his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Lagos in 1990.
In 1980, Oyetola joined Leadway assurance company Limited as an area manager and worked there till 1987 when he moved on to join Crusader Insurance Company Limited as Underwriting Manager between 1987 and 1990. In 1990, he joined Alliance and General Insurance as Technical Controller and served in that capacity until 1991 when he left the organization to start his own company, Silvertrust Insurance Brokers Limited. He was Managing Director since its founding until 2011 when he was appointed as Chief of Staff to the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola.
Oyetola also served as Executive Vice Chairman, Paragon Group of Companies between 2005 to 2011. He was also Chairman of Ebony Properties Limited. He had been a Director of Pyramid Securities Limited, until 2011, He is an Associate Member, Chattered Insurance Institute in London and Nigeria. He is also a member of the Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM).
Oyetola was a member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), and has been in the party through its metamorphosis to Action Congress (AC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and now the All Progressives Congress (APC). In July 2018, he contested with Osun state House of Representatives deputy speaker Yusuf Lasun and Speaker of the Osun House of Assembly Nojeem Salaam for the All Progressives Congress gubernatorial candidacy of the September 22, 2018 gubernatorial election in Osun state and won.
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