| Christopher Omoworare Babajide | |
|---|---|
| Senator for Osun East | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office May 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Iyiola Omisore |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 October 1968 Ilesa, Osun State, Nigeria |
Christopher Omoworare Babajide (b. 31 October 1968) is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for the Osun East constituency of Osun State, Nigeria in the April 2011 elections. He ran on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) platform.
Babajide Christopher Omoworare was born on 31 October 1968 in Ilesa, to a family from Ile-Ife, Ife Central Local Government Area of Osun State. His father was Principal of a grammar school. His mother's father Adesoji Aderemi was Governor of Western Region in the Nigerian First Republic. Omoworare attended Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, graduating with a Bachelors degree in Law in 1989. He went on to the Nigeria Law School, Lagos, and was called to the Nigeria Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1990. He also obtained a Masters in Law from the University of Lagos, Akoka. Omoworare started work with the Lagos law firm of Babalakin & Co. 1991. He became a Notary Public and left Babalakin and Co. in 1998, when he started his own law firm Omoworare & Co., and decided to enter politics.[1]
Omoworare successfully ran for election for the Ifako-Ijaiye constituency of the Lagos State House of Assembly in January 1999, running on the Alliance for Democracy platform. He was reelected in 2003, and became Majority Leader and Chairman of the Business Rules and Standing Orders Committee. In the April 2007 national elections he was the Action Congress candidate for the Osun East Senatorial seat. The election was marred by electoral malpractices and violence, and was nullified in October 2009 by the Court of Appeal, Ibadan. Omoworare and Action Congress in Osun State abstained from the rerun election of December 23, 2009.[1]
In the April 2011 elections for the Osun East Senatorial seat, Omoworare polled 119,852 votes, running on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) platform, ahead of Senator Iyiola Omisore of the PDP who received 51,315 votes.[2]