Adedayo Clement Adeyeye

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Adedayo Clement Adeyeye
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Prince Adeyeye
Chairman, Nigerian Ports Authority
Personal details
Born (1957-04-04) 4 April 1957 (age 67)
Ikere-Ekiti, British Nigeria
(present-day Nigeria)
Political party All Progressives Congress Nigeria
Other political
affiliations		 National Democratic Coalition
Alliance for Democracy
EducationSt. John's Primary School
Christ's School Ado Ekiti
Alma mater University of Ibadan
University of Lagos
Awards Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) award

Adedayo Clement Adeyeye // ⓘ (born 4 April 1957) is a Nigerian politician in All Progressives Congress party. [1] He is a former Minister of State for Works, former Senator for Ekiti South Senatorial District.

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Background

Adeyeye was born on 4 April 1957 in Ise-Ekiti to the royal family of Oba David Opeyemi Adeyeye, Agunsoye II, the Arinjale of Ise Ekiti (who reigned between 1932 and 1976), and Olori Mary Ojulege Adeyeye, a princess of Are, Ikere-Ekiti. [2]

His grandfather was Oba Aweloye I, Arinjale of Ise Ekiti (1887–1919). [2]

Education

Between 1964 and 1968, Adeyeye attended St. John's Primary School in Ikere-Ekiti for his primary education. He attended Annunciation school (1969-1973), and then Christ's School Ado Ekiti (1973-1975). [2]

Adeyeye holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Ibadan (1978) and a master's degree in political science (international relations) from the University of Lagos (1981). He also obtained a law degree from the University of Lagos in 1986 and was called to the Nigerian Bar Association in 1987. [2]

Professional career

Senator Adeyeye is the current Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority. He was appointed to this position on the 13 July 2024 by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.[ citation needed ]

Adeyeye was a teacher at Isuikwuato High School, Isuikwuato, Imo State during his National Youth service (1978-1979) and proceeded to teach at Mary Immaculate Grammar School, Ado-Ekiti (1980). Adeyeye made the switch to journalism in 1981 and was Editor II at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), Ikoyi, between 1981 and 1982. He had a brief stint at Rank Xerox Limited in 1983 where he was a Senior Sales Executive. Between 1983 and 1987, he held various editorial positions at The Punch newspapers. During his active years in legal practice, Adeyeye was the Principal Partner at the law firm of Dayo Adeyeye & Co. between 1990 and 2000. [2]

Politics

Adeyeye was a member of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) who was prominently involved in the national struggles to end the tyranny of military rule and facilitate a return to democracy in Nigeria.

He was Director of Publicity, Falae for President Campaign Organisation (1990-1992), Adviser on policy and Press Matters, M.K.O. Abiola for President Campaign Organisation (1993), spokesperson for the Alliance for Democracy (AD), and a member of the South-West Delegation to the Nigerian leaders of Thought Conference, Abuja. Adeyeye was the youngest of the 21 leaders who represented the South Western zone of Nigeria at the Conference (2001). [3]

Adeyeye was also the National Publicity secretary of the Pan Yoruba Socio-political group called Afenifere between 2001-2004 as well as the spokesperson of the AD between 2004-2006.

In 2006, Adeyeye was an Ekiti State governorship aspirant under AD, which later metamorphosed into the Action Congress of Nigeria, and was runner up to Governor Kayode Fayemi in the controversial primary elections that led to the defection of 13 of the total 16 aspirants from the Action Congress of Nigeria to the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Adeyeye was among those who defected.

After the 2007 election, Adeyeye was nominated for a position as a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua administration, but his past roles as spokesperson for the opposition party and the National Publicity secretary of the Afenifere group worked against his final appointment as minister. [4]

Adeyeye was subsequently appointed Executive Chairman of Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) under the administration of Governor Segun Oni, where he recorded several achievements and won the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) award as the best chairman in the South-West of Nigeria in 2008. The award came along with a cash prize of Seventy Million Naira. He again won the same award as the best Chairman of SUBEB in the South West in 2009. The funds derived from the awards were used to provide more infrastructure for schools across Ekiti State. [5] That same year, Adeyeye was adjudged the most innovative SUBEB chairman in Nigeria by the Presidential Committee on Schools' debate. [6]

In 2014, Adeyeye was nominated by President Goodluck Jonathan as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This time, his nomination was approved by the Nigerian senate and he was sworn in by President Goodluck Jonathan on 9 July of that year as Minister of State for Works. He served as Minister until the end of President Goodluck Jonathan's administration on 29 May 2015.[ citation needed ]

Adeyeye was appointed by the Ekiti State Government as Pro Chancellor of the Ekiti State University in June 2015 and he is the current Chairman of the University's Governing Council.[ citation needed ]

In 2018, Adeyeye declared interest in the race for Ekiti Governorship seat and ran for the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but controversially lost to Kolapo Olusola-Eleka, the anointed candidates of the sitting Governor - Peter Ayodele Fayose. This made him and his supporters defect to the All Progressive Congress (APC), a move that eventually led to the APC winning the election. Adeyeye is the Chairman of Southwest Agenda'23 (SWAGA), which has a presence in Nigeria with offices in several states, including Kwara, Kogi, Akwa Ibom, Benue, Plateau, amongst several others.[ citation needed ]

National Caretaker Committee

Following the inauguration of the National Caretaker Committee of the PDP on 7 June 2016, Adeyeye was nominated as the representative of the South-Western Region of Nigeria. He was subsequently appointed as the National Publicity Secretary of the party under the leadership of Senator Ahmed Makarfi on 9 June 2016 and currently serves the party in that capacity. Adeyeye stopped acting in that capacity after the administration of party's executive committee headed by Prince Uche Secondus. He later contested the 8 May 2018 Governorship Primaries of his party in Ekiti State, but he lost.[ citation needed ]

Campaign for Ekiti State Governorship

Adeyeye was an aspirant for the Ekiti State 2018 gubernatorial elections under the platform of the PDP. [7]

In an interview with the Leadership Newspaper, Adeyeye highlighted his first eleven priorities which pointed at revolutions in agriculture, education, employment figures, health and social welfare amongst others. [8]

Senatorial aspirations

Adeyeye declared for Senate on Thursday 6 September 2018 at Ise Ekiti during the Senatorial meeting of the party held in his home and attended by party's bigwigs and aspirants from the zone.

Adeyeye defeated Senator Biodun Olujimi of PDP in Ekiti South Senatorial District in the National Assembly election conducted on Saturday, 23 February 2019. The Returning Officer for Ekiti South Senatorial District, Professor Laide Lawal, returned Prince Adeyeye, elected having scored 77,621 votes to defeat his closest rival, Olujimi, who polled 53,741 votes. [9] [10] During the 2019 election tribunal, his closest rival, Olujimi was declared winner after the result was recalculated under controversial circumstances. [11]

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