Honourable Olatunji Shoyinka | |
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Born | Lagos | April 11, 1962
Citizenship | Nigerian |
Occupation | Politician |
Political party | Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) |
Olatunji Abiola Shoyinka is a Nigerian grassroot politician and technocrat [1] currently serving as the Federal Representative for Surulere II Federal constituency in the 9th National Assembly [2] at the House of Representatives level [3] since 2019.
Shoyinka (born April 11, 1962) [4] hails from Lagos, Nigeria. He attended Premier Grammar School where he obtained his West African School Certificate (WASC) in 1980. After that, he went on to pursue a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accountancy at the Lagos State College of Science and Technology, (now Lagos State University of Science and Technology) [5] which he completed in 1986.
Shoyinka was appointed Principal Secretary to the National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2014. [6] From there, he entered the field of elective politics by contesting as a Federal Representative for the Surulere II Federal constituency at the 8th Nigerian National Assembly in 2015. [7] Shoyinka was reelected into the 9th Nigerian National Assembly to serve a second term in 2019, [8] under the umbrella of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) [9] and nominated as the Deputy Chairman of Legislative Compliance committee in the House of Representatives. [10]