Sunday Fajinmi Explained

Sunday Fajinmi
Office1:Senator for Osun West
Term Start1:3 June 1999
Term End1:3 June 2003
Successor1:Akinlabi Olasunkanmi
Birth Name:Sunday Olawale Fajinmi
Birth Date:16 November 1952
Birth Place:Osun State, Nigeria
Party:Alliance for Democracy
Alma Mater:Teesside University

Sunday Olawale Fajinmi (; born 16 November 1952) is a Nigerian politician and an entrepreneur.

Education

Fajinmi completed his higher education at Teesside University and went on to provide national services as a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) while employed at Nigeria Airways.[1]

Career

Fajinmi was elected Senator for the Osun West constituency of Osun State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999.[2]

Political career

Senator Sunday Olawale Fajinmi was elected a Senator in 1998 representing Osun west senatorial district on the platform of the United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP) during General Sani Abacha's military regime. After democracy was restored, in June 1999 he was again elected Senator, Osun west on the platform of the Alliance for Democracy beating Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke of the People's Democratic Party.[3]

While in the senate, he was appointed to the Science & Technology, Transport, State & Local Government (Vice Chairman), Information, Government Affairs and Economic Affairs committees.[4] In December 2005 he moved over to the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).[5]

Fajinmi was the Alliance for Democracy gubernatorial candidate in the 9 August 2014 Osun State election.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Admin . Sunday Olawale . Blerf . 26 January 2019.
  2. Web site: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 20 FEBRUARY AND 7 MARCH 1999 . Psephos . 2010-06-25.
  3. Web site: Senator Isiaka Adeleke: Life and times of 'Serubawon' (1955-2017) » Top News » Tribune Online. 2017-04-23. Tribune Online. en-GB. 2020-02-07.
  4. Web site: Congressional Committees . Nigeria Congress . 2010-06-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091118151316/http://www.nigeriacongress.org/assembly/committees1.htm . 18 November 2009 . dmy-all.
  5. Web site: Admin . Nigerian Cleared candidates towards 2014 & 2019 Elections! . Nigeria Decide . 26 January 2019.
  6. Web site: No Regrets Quiting AD, Says Fajinmi . Hammed Shittu . 12 March 2005 . ThisDay . 2010-06-25.