Mulikat Akande-Adeola

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Mulikat Akande-Adeola
Member of the Nigerian House of Representatives
In office
5 June 2007 –6 June 2015

Mulikat Akande-Adeola (born 11 November 1960) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician. [2] She was elected to the Nigerian House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party representing Ogbomoso North, South and Orire Constituency in the year 2007 and was reelected in 2011.

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Hon. Mulikat Akande Adeola joined Continental Merchant Bank Plc in 1988 and while at the bank she was deployed to CMB Homes Mortgage Bank Limited as Head of Legal and Administration. In 1994 she was later appointed company secretary /legal adviser of the bank, a position she held until the closure of the bank in 1996. After living the bank she set up her own legal practice under the name of M.L. Akande & Co .She was elected into the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) representing Ogbomoso North, South and Orire Constituency in the year 2007 and re-elected in 2011. [3]

Early life and education

Mulikat Akande was born on 11 November 1960 in Kaduna, in the northern part of Nigeria to Alhaji and Alhaja Akande of the Jokodolu family. [4] She attended St. Annes’ Primary School and Queen Amina College in Kaduna. After her secondary education, she proceeded to the College of Arts and Science, Zaria for her A levels and thereafter went to Ahmadu Bello University in 1979, where she studies Law and obtained her LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) in 1982 with second class upper. She went to the Nigeria Law School and was called to bar in 1983. She later went to the University of Lagos for her second degree in Law (Master of Laws (LL.M.)) in 1985.

She started her legal career in the banking sector where she rose to Company Secretary/Legal Adviser from 1988 to 1996. She later left to run her private legal firm, M. L. Akande and Company, from 1997 to 2007. She is currently the chair of the board of Pilot Finance Ltd. [5]

Political career

She forayed into politics in 1998 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. In 2007, she was elected to the House of Representatives to represent Ogbomosho North, South and Orire Federal Constituency. She also served as a member of the ECOWAS Parliament from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, she contested for Speaker of the House of Representatives and became the first woman to hold the position of Majority Leader at Federal Legislative level. In 2018, she became the first woman to be nominated for Senate by PDP for the Oyo North Senatorial District. [6]

In May 2022, she decamped from PDP to Social Democratic Party to vie for the ticket of the Oyo North senatorial district. She left due to irreconcilable differences with governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State whom she help emerge as governor in 2019. [1]

Alleged threat to life

In March 2021, she raised an alarm that her life was under threat. The minister of Youth and Sports Development, Chief Sunday Dare warned that nothing untoward must happen to her and called on governor Seyi Makinde to treat the matter with all seriousness and ensure all-round protection for her. The security agencies were informed to rise to the occasion and see that her life was not in anyway in danger. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Former Reps leader, Akande Adeola, dumps PDP in Oyo, obtains SDP senatorial form". Nigerian Tribune . 5 May 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "If we knew it will be this way, we might have acted differently in 2019 —Akande-Adeola". Tribune Online. 18 May 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Hon. Mulikat Akande Adeola". 6 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "Hon. Mulikat Akande Adeola". Eminent Leaders. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Board of director – Pilot Finance Nigeria Ltd" . Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  6. ↑ "Hon. Mulikat Akande-Adeola". Narrative Landscape Press . Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  7. ↑ "Alleged threat to life: Minister wants special protection for Mulikat Akande". The Guardian . 20 March 2021. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
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