Sunday Afolabi

Sunday Afolabi
Deputy Governor of Oyo State
In office 1979–1983
Minister of Education
In office October 1983 – December 1983
Minister for Internal Affairs
In office June 1999 – .
Succeeded by	Mohammed Shata
Personal details
Died	May 2004

Sunday Afolabi is a Nigerian politician who served in the Cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo as Minister of Internal Affairs. Later he stood trial for alleged bribery concerning contracts for the National ID card plan.

Sunday Afolabi was born in Iree, Osun State, of Yoruba origin. His traditional titles were Oloye Bada of Ile-Ife and Oloye Asiwaju Apesin of Oshogbo.,

Afolabi attended Offa Grammar School in Kwara State (1948–1950) and Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta (1951–1953). He became an Accounts Clerk at United African Company (1953–1954), then worked at Bank of British West Africa, later called Standard Bank and now First Bank of Nigeria (1954–1961). He was Chief Accountant at the University of Ibadan (1961–1978).

Afolabi became a member and leader of the Action Group, Osun Division. In the Nigerian Second Republic (1979–1983) Afolabi was a member of Chief Obafemi Awolowo's Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN). He served as deputy governor of Oyo State when Bola Ige was governor. Later he moved over to the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), and became Minister of Education in the Shehu Shagari government. Afolabi was a member of the defunct Social Democratic Party in the lead-up to the abortive Nigerian Third Republic (1989–1993). He became a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in 1998 in the lead up to the Nigerian Fourth Republic.

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