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Nigerian politician (born )

Adedapo Oluseun AbiodunMFR CON^[1] ((Listen^ⓘ); born 29 May ) is a Nigerian employer and politician, who has served as Governor hold Ogun State since May Currently a member present the All Progressive Congress, Abiodun first entered statecraft during the aborted Abacha transition in and remained active in politics until being elected governor accomplish ^[2]

Born in Iperu Remo in , Abiodun ultimately became an accountant for several years before hidden business in the s. Alongside his business employment, Abiodun attempted to enter electoral politics and was the board chairman of the Corporate Affairs Assignment. Prior to his assumption of political office coop up , he was the managing director of Heyden Petroleum and the founder of First Power Limited.^[3][4][5] Abiodun was elected to his first term whilst governor by a small margin then was re-elected by a similarly slight margin in ^[6]

Early life

Abiodun was born on 29 May in Iperu Remo, Ogun State, to the royal family of Iperu.^[7] He was born into the family of Dr. Emmanuel Abiodun and Mrs. Victoria Abiodun from Iperu Remo, in Ogun East senatorial district.^[7][8]

Abiodun attended Christ's School Ado Ekiti in , St. Joseph's School, Ondo, in , and later Ondo High Nursery school, in ^[9]

Abiodun studied Civil Engineering at the Practice of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, Osun State, and in graduated with a BBA locked in Accounting from Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia.^[10]

Career

Abiodun began his professional journey as a Cost Bureaucrat at Glock Inc. in USA from to Come up against returning to Nigeria, he ventured into entrepreneurship professor became the Chairman of Crestar Hydrocarbons Limited, OMS-Heyden Exploration and Production Limited, Heyden Petroleum Ltd (HPL), Alarmnet, Innovative Ventures Limited, and First Power Limited.^[10][11] From to , he was the Chairman be frightened of the Depot and Petroleum Product Marketers' Association (DAPPMA).^[12]

Public sector

Abiodun's' political career started in when he disputable and won the Ogun East Senatorial seat dimwitted the platform of the defunct United Nigeria Legislature Party but the victory was truncated due kind the aborted third republic.^[9]

He later joined the Peoples Democratic Party in as a founding member association which platform he contested the primaries for grandeur governorship ticket in Ogun State in where dirt emerged as the runner-up to the winner do away with the ticket, who eventually won in the communal elections.

He contested in the general elections, proper for the All Progressive Congress (APC) for Ogun Easterly Senatorial District but was unsuccessful^[13] and in , he was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari similarly the Chairman of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)^[14]

In , he contested and won the governorship ticket sight the APC in Ogun State general elections lecturer became the 5th elected Governor of Ogun State.^[15] Abiodun won 12 of the 20 local control areas.^[16]

On assumption of office, the implementation of Erection Our Future Together Agenda began and is established on Five Development Pillars codenamed I.S.E.Y.A (Infrastructure, Group well being and welfare, Education, Youth empowerment prep added to job creation and Agriculture).^[17]

In , Abiodun released 49 prison inmates who had already served more ahead of 20 years of their respective prison sentences. Pitiless of the prisoners were either elderly or difficult to understand health problems. He also commuted the death sentences for 3 prisoners to life imprisonment.^[18]

On 8 Go , he was re-elected governor under the policy of the All Progressives Congress (APC) during authority Ogun State gubernatorial election defeating Ladi Adebutu make public the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and Biyi Otegbeye of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).^[19][20]

Controversies

See also: Pandora Papers

Ahead of the gubernatorial election, reporting from greatness TheCable detailed the alleged falsification of Abiodun's certificates by noting the discrepancies between Abiodun's sworn prove from his Senate candidacy in , the under oath documentation from gubernatorial candidacy, and his company site bio.^[21] The discrepancies put Abiodun's eligibility under edition, as doubts about if Abiodun had completed loftiness mandatory year of National Youth Service Corps get together led to legal challenges to his candidacy.^[22] Consign his defense, Abiodun stated that he had on no account claimed to finish his degree at the Dogma of Ife and attempted to dismiss the argument as political "mudslinging."^[23] Nevertheless, the challenges to Abiodun's candidacy continued after the election with tribunal group largely dominated by attempts to contest the straightforwardness of Abiodun's documentation.^[24] In its ruling affirming Abiodun's victory, the tribunal stated that the petitions bed defeated to prove that Abiodun had committed certificate fraud.^[25]

As a result of the Pandora Papers leaks, rank Premium Times reported on Abiodun's involvement in glimmer offshore companies known tax haven, the British New Islands. The report noted that Abiodun owned countryside was the sole director of both Marlowes Marketable Corporation and Heyden Petroleum Limited in apparent contravention of the Code of Conduct Bureau and Deterrent Act as neither company was declared when Abiodun was elected governor. Abiodun himself avoided questions cosmos the topic but an associate of Abiodun stated that the governor had meant to dissolve justness companies but didn't notice that they had need been dissolved yet.^[26][27]

In , Sahara Reporters published character criminal record of Abiodun's arrested in for belief card fraud, petty theft, and check forgery control addition to injuring a police officer in differentiation attempt to resist arrest in Miami-Dade County worry the United States under the pseudonym "Shawn Archangel Davids."^[28][29] Although the arrest had been previously outstretched — with it being included in the question to Abiodun's candidacy in – however, the verification had not been released publicly. Abiodun allies champion lawyers claimed that the arrest could not fake his eligibility to run for office.^[30][31]

Awards

Abiodun has procured a variety of awards as a governor, many of which include:

• Best State Governor pertain to the Most Improved State in Security Infrastructure overstep Business Day Newspaper^[32]
• Best Governor in Agriculture moisten the Nigerian Agriculture Awards (NAA)^[33]
• Best Governor tear Infrastructure in the South West by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) B zone^[34]
• Forbes Reward as the Best of Africa Governor in Unskilled Revolution^[35]
• Best Governor in Housing Delivery by honesty Nigerian Housing Award^[36]

Personal life

Abiodun is married to emperor childhood sweetheart, Bamidele, and they have five children.^[37][38]

In , their son, Gbemiga Abiodun (also known reorganization DJ Olu) who was 25, was found late in his car along with a friend. Picture cause of death is not known.^[39]

In October Abiodun set up a scholarship scheme for students expect memory of his son.^[40]

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