The All Progressives Congress
(APC) governorship candidate for the July 14 polls in Ekiti State, John Kayode
Fayemi, has picked former Executive Chairman of Ado-Ekiti Local Government,
Chief Adebisi Adegboyega Egbeyemi, as his running mate.
A statement from JKF Campaign office
in Ado-Ekiti disclosed that 74-year-old Egbeyemi was picked in the late hours
of Wednesday, after party leaders met for long hours.
The statement, which was signed
by Wole Olujobi said Egbeyemi’s choice came after speculations by the expectant
public spread that certain eminent indigenes of the state had been picked to
fly the ticket with Fayemi in the July 14, 2018 governorship poll.
Egbeyemi, an indigene of
Ado-Ekiti, was born on May 8, 1944 to the family of the late Egbeyemi Alade and
late Madam Tinubu Egbeyemi.
He started his education at the
Holy Trinity Anglican School, Ilawe-Ekiti and Baptist School, Ado-Ekiti, after
which he attended Harding Memorial Modern School, Ado-Ekiti.
He studied privately while
working as a Laboratory Assistant at Ekitiparapo College, Ido-Ekiti, and while
working as a bursar at Notre Dame Grammar School, Usi-Ekiti, Egbeyemi sat as a
private student to pass both the GCE O’Level and Advanced Level examinations.
He later proceeded to the
University of Lagos College of Education where he graduated in Biology and
Physical Education with distinction. He taught briefly at the St Mary’s Girls
Secondary School, Ikole-Ekiti, in 1975 before he was transferred to the Teachers’
College, Oye-Ekiti, as a pioneer Physical Education tutor between 1975 and
1977.
He later went to the University
of Ife to read Law between 1977 and 1980 before proceeding to the Law School in
Lagos for his Barrister at Law certificate and was called to the Nigerian Bar
in 1981 as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
His political experiences spanned
many fields, including the Youth Leader of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN)
between 1979 and 1983; a member of the Ondo State House of Assembly in 1983;
and Executive Chairman of Ado-Ekiti Local Government between 1991 and 1993.
Others include Leader of the
United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP) in Ado-Ekiti Local Government between 1996
and 1997 and was founding member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), using the
platform to win the House of Representatives election that was cancelled by the
late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, in 1998.
Between 1991 and 1992, he was
Commissioner of Education and between 2001 and 2002, Egbeyemi was a member of
the Governing Council of the National Teachers’ Institute, Kaduna.
A receiver of many awards, the
lawyer was appointed the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General between
2002 and 2003.
He was a founding member and
Leader of the Action Congress in Ado-Ekiti Local Government and currently a
foremost leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State.
A top chieftaincy title holder in
Ado-Ekiti, Egbeyemi is married with children.
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