Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Wednesday, emerged the
running mate to the All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, Gen.
Muhammadu Buhari.
Here is a profile of the former Lagos State Attorney
General and a Snr. Pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God(RCCG).
Pastor, Professor, SAN ( I do not know which comes
first) Yemi Osinbajo, 55, is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Senior Partner in
the Law firm of Simmons Cooper Partners.
He studied at the University of Lagos and the London
School of Economics where he obtained the LLB and LLM degrees respectively.
Prof. Osinbajo, was the Head of Public Law at the Faculty
of Law, University of Lagos.
He became Lagos State Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice in 1999 and was reappointed for a second term in 2003.
He was the Special Adviser to the Attorney-General and
Minister of Justice of the Federal Republic of Nigeria between 1988 and 1992.
He also served as a staff member of the United Nations and Member of the United
Nation’s Secretary General’s Committee of Experts on Conduct and Discipline of
UN Peacekeeping personnel around the globe.
He currently serves an Ethics Advisor to the Ethics
Committee of the African Development Bank and is a non-executive Director of
Citibank.
Prof. Osinbajo is Co-founder & Board Member
Convention on Business Integrity and the Justice Research Institute Ltd. He has
also authored several law books.
According to Vanguard, Prof. and his wife Oludolapo
founded “The Orderly Society Trust”, a non- governmental organization that is
dedicated to the promotion of Christian ethics and orderliness in 2007.
He is a resident pastor at the Olive Tree House of
Prayer for All Nations, Banana Island, a parish of the RCCG.
He has one wife,Dolapo Osinbajo, who is a grandchild
of Obafemi Awolowo and he’s blesses with three children
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