Senator Olusola Adeyeye (APC-Osun Central) has been made the new chief whip of the Nigerian senate.
Adeyeye was nominated for the position by the Senate South West Caucus and was made whip after Senate President, Bukola Saraki read a letter by APC South West Caucus nominating Prof Sola Adeyeye as Chief Whip of the Senate.
Saraki’s move looks like a u-turn from his previous action when he refused to honour a similar letter sent by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress urging him to appoint select individuals as principal officers of the senate.
The new chief whip, Adeyeye, attended the University of Ibadan, where he was the editor of a students’ newspaper. When the military government of Olusegun Obasanjo lifted the ban on politics in 1978, he worked for the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), the party of Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
After Awolowo failed to be elected President in 1979, Adeyeye went abroad where he earned his graduate degree. He earned a PhD from the University of Georgia. Adeyeye later became a Professor of Biology at Duquesne University.
