Solomon Olamilekan Adeola
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| Senator for Lagos West | |
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Assumed office June 6, 2011 Serving with Oluremi Tinubu and Gbenga Bareehu Ashafa |
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| Preceded by | Ganiyu Solomon |
| Vice-Chairman of the Senate Committee on Communications |
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Assumed office September 17, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Gilbert Nnaji |
| Honourable of the House of Representatives | |
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In office 2011–2015 |
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| Preceded by | Emmanuel Oyeyemi Adedeji |
| Succeeded by | Oluwafemi Adebanjo |
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Solomon Olamilekan Adeola August 10, 1969 Lagos, Nigeria |
| Political party | All Progressives Congress |
| Spouse(s) | Temitope Adeola |
| Alma mater | Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo state |
| Profession |
Accountant Politician |
| Website | yayiadeola.com |
Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, also known by the alias Yayi (born August 10, 1969), is the Senator representing Lagos West and Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts. He is also a chartered accountant, and a member of the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT).
Solomon Olamilekan Adeola was born on August 10, 1969 at Lagos Island Maternity Hospital to Mr. Ayinde Adeola Ogunleye and Madam Abeeni Olasunbo Ogunleye (née Akinola).
He grew up in Alimosho where he began his education at State Primary School in Alimosho, Lagos. He proceeded to Community Grammar School, Akowonjo, Lagos for his secondary education. His quest for knowledge took him to the prestigious Ondo State Polytechnic, Owo now Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo state where he bagged a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accounting.
He became a Chartered Accountant at a very young age and is a distinguished Chartered Accountant-Associate Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).
Adeola had a stint with the flagship of Nigerian newspapers, The Guardian Newspapers Limited for 12 years and rose to the position of Accountant.
Adeola proceeded to Olatunji Omoyeni & Co, a chartered accounting firm, where he led the audit team for several years and was later promoted to the position of a Senior Auditor.
He later established his own company, SOOTEM Nigeria Limited, where he was the managing director and chief executive officer in the firm that specialized in tax consultancy.
Following his decision to join active politics, sometimes at the dawn of the 4th Republic, Adeola was nominated and won the primary of the then ruling Action Congress of Nigeria and was elected as a member to represent Alimosho State Constituency 2 at the Lagos State House of Assembly from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2007 to 2011. He was reputed to have been instrumental to the enactment of the law that strengthened the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service, a legislation that catapulted the revenue of the state from N5billion monthly to over N20billion. He was also part of the team that passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act and the Public Procurement Act of Lagos State.
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