Senator Olusola Adeyeye (APC-Osun Central) has been made the
new chief whip of the Nigerian senate.
Adeyeye was nominated for the position by the Senate South
West Caucus and was made whip after Senate President, Bukola Saraki read a
letter by APC South West Caucus nominating Prof Sola Adeyeye as Chief Whip of
the Senate.
Saraki’s move looks like a u-turn from his previous action
when he refused to honour a similar letter sent by the leadership of the All
Progressives Congress urging him to appoint select individuals as principal
officers of the senate.
The new chief whip, Adeyeye, attended the University of
Ibadan, where he was the editor of a students’ newspaper. When the military
government of Olusegun Obasanjo lifted the ban on politics in 1978, he worked
for the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), the party of Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
After Awolowo failed to be elected President in 1979,
Adeyeye went abroad where he earned his graduate degree. He earned a PhD from
the University of Georgia. Adeyeye later became a Professor of Biology at
Duquesne University.
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