Osun rerun: 6 things to know about governor-elect, Gboyega Oyetola
technocrat and a politician on the platform of the All Progressives
Congress, APC.
Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
declared him winner of the governorship election after a controversial
supplementary election in which he battled for the peoples' mandate
with Senator Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Following his emergence as governor-elect under a controversial
circumstance, DAILY POST brings you 6 facts about him.
1. Gboyega Oyetola was born on September 29, 1954, in Iragbiji, Boripe
Local Government Area of Osun.
2. The governor-elect attended Ifeoluwa Grammar School in Osogbo for
his secondary school education which he completed in 1972. He
proceeded to the prestigious University of Lagos where he bagged a
Bachelor of Science honours degree in Insurance in 1978 and MBA
finance in 1990.
3. He had his mandatory one year National Youth Service between 1978
and 1979, at Potiskum, in present-day Yobe State, where he lectured at
the Staff Training Centre.
4. He started his insurance career with Leadway Assurance Company
after his NYSC in Maiduguri in 1980 as an assistant manager and rose
to the position of area manager, control office, Lagos.
4. Oyetola was at Crusader Insurance as Underwriting Manager,
Corporate Alliance Insurance as Controller Technical before he took a
giant step in 1991 by establishing his own Company, Silvertrust
Insurance Brokers Limited.
5. He was the Managing Director of Silvertrust for 20 years until his
appointment as Chief of Staff to Governor Rauf Aregebesola of Osun
state in 2011.
5. The governor-elect was a founding member of Alliance for Democracy
(AD) and has been a chieftain of the party through its metamorphosis
to Action Congress (AC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and now All
Progressives Congress (APC).
6. He is married to Kafayat Olaitan Oyetola and they are blessed with children.
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