Olatunji Ariyo

Olatunji Ariyomo (born 26 June 1972) is an engineer and a technology advocate variously described as one of the 'issues in Ondo State politics' and a 'firebrand'. Popularly called 'Tunji L'ght Ariyomo, he is a youthful leader and motivator in Ondo State, Nigeria who has "garnered a reputation ... for delivering (results) on the use of technology no matter the odds". He trained as an Energy Engineering expert at the University of Sheffield (England) and as a Civil and Structural Engineer at the Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria. Ariyomo is an advocate of a technology driven economic sector in Nigeria. He was nominated International Poet of Merit by the International Society of Poets in 1995. He won the overall best candidate prize at the Professional Examination of the Nigerian Society of Engineers in 2005 and has served twice as Senior Aide to the Governor of Ondo State, Nigeria on information technology. He was the pioneer coordinator of the Ondo State Information Technology Development Centre (2005-Feb. 2009). He was appointed by Dr. Olusegun Agagu in 2005. He is a playwright, a poet and the author of the book “Odundun, African Legendary Monarch” one of the approved texts for secondary school education in Ondo State.

Tunji L'ght Ariyomo (written fully as Olatunji Ariyomo) is a youth icon in Nigeria and he can be described as the pioneer of electronic governance system in Ondo State. He introduced the state's e-portal www.ondostate.gov.ng, security surveillance system, computerization of processes of internally generated revenue www.ondostate-bir.com which pushed the state's Internally Generated Revenue up by over eighty six percent) and has been one of the key advocates of electronic knowledge based system in Nigeria. He was one of four Nigerians sponsored by government to participate in the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Science Technology and Innovation programme (2008 batch). As a youth involved in leadership, he initiated the current scheme allowing promising youths to be trained to acquire professional certification in India. Six young natives of Ondo State benefitted from this scheme between January and March 2009. His earlier involvement in leadership was made possible by Chief Adebayo Adefarati. The relationship was strained following his involvement in an unsuccessful attempt to introduce a "vibrant and politically dynamic deputy" for the latter.

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