Gov.Makinde Appoints SDP Guber Candidate, Bolaji Ayorinde SAN As Special Counsel

* Appoints Aderibigbe, ex-UI protocol chief SSA on LGs, DG
protocol

Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Thursday, approved
the appointment of the governorship candidate of the Social
Democratic Party (SDP) in the March 9 governorship in the state,
Chief Bolaji Ayorinde, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), as
Special Counsel to the Governor of Oyo State.

This was just as a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress
(ADC) and candidate of the party for the Akinyele/Lagelu Federal
Constituency in the February 23 House of Representatives election,
Prince Yemi Aderibigbe, was also appointed as Senior Special
Assistant to the Governor on Local Government and Chieftaincy
Affairs.

A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor,
Mr Taiwo Adisa, indicated that Mr. Wale Onaolapo was appointed as
the chairman of the Oyo State Security Trust Fund, while a former
Principal Protocol Officer of the University of Ibadan, Mr Gboyega
Badejo, was appointed as the Director-General (Protocol) to the
Governor.

Ayorinde, SAN, an Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR) and son
of a former Chief Judge of Oyo State, Justice Timothy Ayorinde,
earned the University of Oxford General Certificate (Law)
intermediate LLB in 1983 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University
of London in 1985, before proceeding to the Nigerian Law School,
Lagos.

He set up the law firm of B. Ayorinde & Co in 1990 and was
elevated to the rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2005.

Ayorinde had previously served Oyo State in different capacities
including being Pro-Chancellor, Chairman Governing Council of the
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso where he served
for four years as well as the chairman of the Oyo State Committee
on Prisons Decongestion.

Badejo, the new DG Protocol to the Governor, was until his
appointment the Principal Protocol Officer at the University of
Ibadan, where he bagged a degree in Education in 1995.

He is a member of the Protocol and Diplomacy International.

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