Post: | Deputy Governor |
Body: | Osun State |
Insigniasize: | 100 |
Insigniacaption: | Seal of Osun State |
Flag: | Flag of Osun State, Nigeria.svg |
Flagsize: | 125 |
Flagcaption: | Flag of Osun State |
Incumbent: | Kola Adewusi |
Incumbentsince: | 27 November 2022 |
Department: | Executive Branch of the Osun State Government |
Member Of: |
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Status: | Second highest executive branch officer |
Seat: | Osogbo |
Appointer: | Direct popular election or, if vacant, Governor via House of Assembly confirmation |
Termlength: | Four years |
Termlength Qualified: | renewable once |
Constituting Instrument: | Constitution of Nigeria |
Succession: | First |
Nominator: | Gubernatorial candidate |
Inaugural: | Iyiola Omisore (Fourth Republic) |
The deputy governor of Osun State is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the government of Osun State, Nigeria, after the governor of Osun State, and ranks first in line of succession. The deputy governor is directly elected together with the governor to a four-year term of office.
Kola Adewusi is the current deputy governor, having assumed office on 27 November 2022.[1]
The deputy governor assists the governor in exercising primary assignments and is also eligible to replace a dead, impeached, absent or ill Governor as required by the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria.[2]
Name | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | Elected | Governor | |
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Clement Adesuyi Haastrup | 2 January 1992 | 17 November 1993 | Social Democratic Party | 1991 | Isiaka Adeleke | ||
Iyiola Omisore | 29 May 1999 | 29 May 2003 | Alliance for Democracy | 1999 | Adebisi Akande | ||
Olusola Obada | 29 May 2003 | 26 November 2010 | Peoples Democratic Party | 2003 2007 | Olagunsoye Oyinlola | ||
Titilayo Laoye-Tomori | 27 November 2010 | 27 November 2018 | All Progressives Congress | 2014 | Rauf Aregbesola | ||
Benedict Alabi | 27 November 2018 | 27 November 2022 | All Progressives Congress | 2018 | Gboyega Oyetola | ||
Kola Adewusi | 27 November 2022 | Incumbent | Peoples Democratic Party | 2022 | Ademola Adeleke |