Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has approved has appoint Bolaji Ayorinde, the former governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the March 9 governorship in the state, as Special Counsel to the Governor, Igbere TV reports.
The governor made this known in a statement which was obtained by Igbere TV on Thursday.
According to the statement which was signed by Mr Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Gboyega Badejo, a former Principal Protocol Officer of the University of Ibadan, was also appointed as the Director-General (Protocol), while Mr. Wale Onaolapo, as the chairman of the Oyo State Security Trust Fund.
Igbere TV gathers that Ayorinde, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (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 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.
He also 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.
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.
This is coming after Igbere TV had earlier reported that Prince Yemi Aderibigbe, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and former candidate of the party for the Akinyele/Lagelu Federal Constituency in the February 23 House of Representatives election, was also appointed as Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
