“STATE OF THE POLITY”: Fresh FM Sets to Host Oyo Accord Party Guber Candidate, Chief Bayo Adelabu on Saturday
“STATE OF THE POLITY”: Fresh FM Sets to Host Oyo Accord Party Guber Candidate, Chief Bayo Adelabu on Saturday.
A most powerful and influential radio station, Fresh FM, Ibadan, will on Saturday, August 13, host the Gubernatorial Candidate of the Accord Party, in Oyo State, Chief Abdul-Waheed Adebayo Adelabu “Penkelemesi”, on “Political Circuit” Programme, to address “The State of The Polity”, in the pacesetter state, by 10:00am.
The program will be anchored by the Ace Broadcaster, ” Irresistible” Mayor Isaac Brown and other widely renowned journalists.
About Chief Abdul-Waheed Adebayo Adelabu:
Early life and education.
Adelabu was born to Aderibigbe Adelabu of Oke-Oluokun compound, Kudeti Area in Ibadan. His grandfather is Adegoke Adelabu.
Adelabu attended Ibadan Municipal Government primary school, Agodi Ibadan from 1976 to 1982 and Lagelu Grammar School, Ibadan from 1982 to 1987.
Adelabu received a first class degree in Accounting from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria(ICAN), a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and an Associate Member of the Institute of Directors of Nigeria and the United Kingdom. Adelabu has also taken up professional courses in various business schools, including Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Columbia, Kelloggs, Euromoney, and the University of London.
Professional career.
Adelabu started his career with PriceWaterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), an international firm of chartered accountants and management consultants. During his seven years with the firm, he led and managed various audit and consultancy engagements for large banks and non-bank financial institutions within and outside Nigeria.
He was on secondment to the Central Bank of Nigeria for one year in 1999 when he led the finance team on the CBN re-engineering and corporate renewal project tagged “Project EAGLES”. He left the firm in year 2000 as an audit manager and senior consultant to join First Atlantic Bank as the Financial Controller and Group Head of Risk Management and Controls. He was later promoted to Chief Inspector of the Bank in 2002 and Group Head of National Public Sector Business in 2003.
Adelabu moved to Standard Chartered Bank as the West African Regional Head of Finance and Strategy (Consumer Banking Business) with dual offices in Lagos and Accra. He was there till 2009 from where he became an Executive Director/Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Nigeria’s largest bank, First Bank of Nigeria Plc. (FBN) at the age of 39.
Adebayo was appointed by former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in February 2014 as Deputy Governor, Operations of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Adelabu serves as the Chairman, Board of Directors of the Nigeria InterBank Settlement Systems (NIBBS) and has chaired the board of Financial Institution Training Centre (FITC). He is also a serving member of the Board of Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS), Nigeria Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC), the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL).
Personal businesses
Adelabu is also a businessman and has investments spanning the hospitality, entertainment, agriculture and real estate industries. He is the Group Chairman of Bayse One Group of Hotels, the Best Western Plus Hotels, Ibadan, Bayse One Farm and others.
Political life.
Adelabu resigned from Central Bank of Nigeria with the intention of seeking election into the governorship position of Oyo State in 2019. He made his intention official on June 20th, 2018 when he visited the All Progressive Congress party secretariat in Ibadan to make his declaration and also picked up the governorship aspirant form. On 30 September 2018, he emerged as the gubernatorial candidate for the APC (All Progressives Congress) Party in Oyo State at the party primaries held at the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan. On March 9, 2019, in a keenly contested election, Oloye Bayo Adelabu lost to Oluwaseyi Makinde of the people’s democratic party in the 2019 Oyo state gubernatorial election.
This year, he attempted to seek reelection in Oyo APC gubernatorial flagbearership contest, but he pulled out of the race due to what he perceived and alleged as “irregularities that marred the then forthcoming Oyo APC Guber Primaries.
Chief Adelabu later defected to Accord Party and he has been affirmed as the gubernatorial candidate of the party, in the pacesetter state, come 2023.
