Meet The Strong Man Called OGBENI AREGBESOLA

Rauf Aregbesola was born on May 25, 1957. He graduated from The Polytechnic, Ibadan where he studied Mechanical Engineering. He is a Fellow of Nigerian Institute of Management, Nigerian Society of Engineers, the Nigerian Association of Technological Engineers and Certified Marketing Communications Institute.


He was on April 12 this year endorsed as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state for governorship election. The emergence of Aregbesola was preceded by congresses. The governor, who had no opponents, was endorsed as the flag bearer of the party.

The Nasir el-Rufai-led committee supervised the primary election in which Aregbesola was endorsed. While he was giving him the certificate of return, el-Rufai said 269,631 members of the party voted the for governor for a second term out 355,390 members who registered in 332 wards across the state.

But before becoming the state governor in 2010, Aregbesola had...

Served as the Lagos State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure for eight years. He left the Lagos State Government to contest the governorship election in Osun in 2007, on the platform of the defunct AC.

At the end of the election, INEC under Maurice Iwu declared Olagunsoye Oyinlola of the Peoples Democratic Party, the winner of the election. The former commissioner and his party contested the result, taking Oyinlola and the INEC to court.