Siju Adeoye

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Siju Adeoye
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Member of Medway Council
for Chatham Central [1]
In office
2 May 2019 –4 May 2023
Personal details
Born
Sijuwade Adeoye
NationalityBritish-Nigerian
Political party
OccupationPolitician

Sijuwade Adeoye was a councillor for the Chatham Central Ward of Medway Council in England. [2] Elected as a Labour Party candidate in 2019, she joined the Conservative Party in December 2022. [3]

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Early life

Siju Adeoye was born in Nigeria, where she attended the Sacred Heart Private School, Ibadan and Queen's School, Ibadan. Due to change in government and civil unrest in the 1980s, Adeoye's parents fled to Ireland, where she attended Collinstown Park Community College, Dublin. She finished her secondary education at La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls' School and sixth form at Saint Francis Xavier College, Clapham in South London where she obtained BTEC First and National Diplomas in Science. Adeoye had her tertiary education in Health and Social Care and postgraduate qualified in Public Health from London Metropolitan University.

Political career

Having lived in Kent for two decades, Adeoye has led local campaign issues featured on KMTV, BBC Radio Kent and BBC South East. [4] Some of Adeoye's advocacy involves road safety, fly-tipping, drugs, gangs, vulnerability, Interventions for Young People, Children's Services, refugees, Black Lives Matter, Education, the criminal justice system and research on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom on Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in the United Kingdom. [5] She spearheaded a campaign in the South East on Access and Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccination and The BAME Community, [6] Adeoye spoke up for residents in Chatham Central, striving for vibrant community and standing up to austerity which was happening. [7]

Adeoye was a member of Planning Committee, Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee and Member Substitute for Medway Climate Change Advisory Group and Licensing Committee for Medway Council. She also represents the Council on the Admiralty Court, Chatham Charities Trustees, Medway Diversity Forum and School Governors to All Saints and New Road primary schools in Chatham, Medway. [8] [9] She was nominated by Labour to be deputy mayor of Medway in 2020. [10] [11]

In October 2022 Adeoye was not selected by the Labour Party to stand in another ward on Medway Council, Gillingham North. She resigned the Medway Labour Group whip – automatically excluding herself from the Labour Party. [12] [13] In December 2022 she joined the Conservative Party group on the council. [3]

She stood in the 2023 Medway Council election as a Conservative candidate in Gillingham South ward, but failed to be elected by a large margin, coming second amongst Conservative candidates. [14]

Career

Outside local government work, Adeoye has chaired the Independent Monitoring Board for Stanford Hill Prison in 2018 and 2019 and still is a board member.

Adeoye has also been a speaker and campaigner for Aegis Trust and a volunteer advocate for United Nations Associations UK on Genocide Mass Atrocities and UN resolutions. She was a UK coordinator for Beibei Haven International, a non-governmental organisation addressing women's maternal health.[ citation needed ]

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  2. ↑ "Councillor Sijuwade Adeoye". Medway Council. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
  3. 1 2 Nelson, Katie May (16 December 2022). "Councillor Sijuwade Adeoye joins Conservatives on Medway Council after defecting from Labour" . Retrieved 19 December 2022.
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  5. ↑ James, John (21 October 2020). "How Medway is transforming in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement". KentLive. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
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  7. ↑ Collier, Henry (8 February 2021). "Kent's Black communities aren't all taking the COVID vaccine". KentLive. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "Governors | New Road Primary School". www.newroad.medway.sch.uk. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  9. ↑ "Councillor details - Councillor Sijuwade Adeoye". democracy.medway.gov.uk. 16 February 2021. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
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  11. ↑ "Equality pioneer honoured with plaque at station". Kent Online. 24 September 2020. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
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  14. ↑ "Gillingham South - Election - 4 May 2023". Medway Elects. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
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