Adegboyega Oyetola
Adegboyega Oyetola is a Nigerian politician and Governor of Osun State. He contested the Osun State governorship election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on September 22, 2018.
On March 23, 2019 an Election Tribunal declared he was not legally returned and orders INEC to issue certificates of return to Senator Adeleke of the PDP which is being contested at the Apeal court and judgment expected on Thursday, May 9, 2019.
Before he was elected governor of Osun state, Oyetola was the Chief of Staff to Rauf Aregbesola, his predecessor.
On March 23, 2019 an Election Tribunal declared he was not legally returned and orders INEC to issue certificates of return to Senator Adeleke of the PDP which is being contested at the Apeal court and judgment expected on Thursday, May 9, 2019.
Before he was elected governor of Osun state, Oyetola was the Chief of Staff to Rauf Aregbesola, his predecessor.
Adegboyega Oyetola was born in Iragbiji, Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State on September 29, 1954. He started his secondary education at Ifeoluwa Grammar School, Osogbo and graduated in 1972.
He proceeded to the University of Lagos and graduated with a Bachelor of Science honors degree in Insurance in 1978. He proceeded for his 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 organisation 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 and 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 for the All Progressives Congress gubernatorial candidacy and won the party primaries, He contested the Governorship election with the PDP, Senator Adeleke on 22, 2018 and won. He was sworn in to office on November 27, 2018. On 22nd of March, 2019, the Election tribunal sitting in Abuja declared that the All progressive Congress and it's candidate, Gboyega Oyetola, were not validly returned.
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