Following Rotimi Akeredolu’s passing in Germany on Wednesday, Lucky Aiyedatiwa took office as governor of Ondo State.
According to 9jainstantgist, Aiyedatiwa, the former acting governor and deputy governor of Ondo, would take up Akeredolu’s term.
How well-versed with the new governor are you? These are the details.
1. On January 12, 1965, the new governor was born in Obe-Nla, an oil-producing village in Ondo State’s Ilaje Local Government Area.
2. Under Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, he previously held the position of deputy governor of Ondo State from 2021 to 2023.
3. Aiyedatiwa served as a Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) commissioner in the past.
4. On December 12, 2023, he was appointed acting governor when Akeredolu took a medical leave of absence.
5. Previously, from June to September 2023, when Akeredolu was on medical leave, he held the position of acting governor.
6. In 1986, Aiyedatiwa graduated from Lagos State College of Education (now Lagos State University of Education), Ijanikin, Lagos, with a Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE) in Economics and Government.
7. Later, in 2001, he enrolled at the University of Ibadan to pursue an advanced diploma in business administration.
8. In 2009, he graduated from Pan Atlantic University, Lekki, Lagos’s Lagos Business School with a Post Graduate Certificate in Chief Executive Education (CEP) in Business Management.
9. Aiyedatiwa graduated with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom in 2013.
10. In 2011 he started involved in politics as a card-carrying member of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which went on to form the All Progressive Congress (APC) after merging with other parties.