Victor Omololu Olunloyo

Victor Omololu Olunloyo
Governor of Oyo State
In office
October 1983 – December 1983
Preceded by Bola Ige
Succeeded by Oladayo Popoola
Personal details
Born April 14, 1935 (1935-04-14) (age 76)

Dr. Victor Omololu Olunloyo (b. 1935) is a mathematician who became governor of Oyo State in Nigeria in October 1983, holding the office briefly until the military regime of Muhammadu Buhari took power in December 1983. He later became a power in the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State.

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Early life

Victor Omololu Sowemimo Olunloyo was born in Ibadan on April 14th 1935. His deceased father Horatio Olunloyo was Christian and his 99-year-old mother Alhaja Bintu Tejumola Olunloyo Adesokan is Muslim.[1] His father died in December 1948 when Victor Olunloyo was 13 years old.[2] Victor Olunloyo gained a Ph.D. from St. Andrews University in 1961. His thesis was on the Numerical Determination of the Solutions of Eigenvalue Problems of the Sturm–Liouville Type. He published several other papers on number theory and applied mathematics.[3]

Olunloyo was appointed Commissioner for Economic Development for the Western Region in 1962 at the age of 27, in the cabinet of Dr. Moses Majekodunmi. He was re-appointed when Colonel Adeyinka Adebayo was appointed military governor of Western State. Other positions included Commissioner for Community Development, Education (twice), Special Duties, Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs which includes crowning of two of Nigeria's monarchs namely the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III and the Soun of Ogbomosho King Oyewunmi. He was appointed chairman of the Western Nigerian Development Corporation.[1]

Governor of Oyo State

In 1983, Olunloyo ran for governor of the old Oyo State on the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) platform, and defeated the incumbent, Bola Ige of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), assuming office in October 1983. He lost the seat three months later when General Muhammadu Buhari took power and dismissed the elected government on December 31, 1983.[1]

Later career

In November 2002 Victor Olunloyo said he would be a candidate for governor of Oyo State in the April 2003 elections.[3] However, Rasheed Ladoja was eventually chosen as the PDP candidate. In 2009, he was chairman of a panel to investigate the collapse of a part of the Pharmacy section of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology. The panel laid blame on the contractor and on the state government, drawing attack from the Oyo State governor Adebayo Alao-Akala.[4] He was elected chairman of the PDP Planning and Strategy Committee for Ibadanland to prepare for the 2011 election, and was also made chairman of the PDP Media and Publicity Committee for the state.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c FEMI ADEOTI (October 23, 2009). "Olunloyo on 1983 Oyo guber Bola Ige planned to rig". Daily Sun. http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2009/oct/23/national-23-10-2009-001.html. Retrieved 2009-12-12. 
  2. ^ "The Olunloyo Women's Foundation". The Olunloyo Women's Foundation. http://www.olunloyowomen.info/. Retrieved 2009-12-12. 
  3. ^ a b Scott W. Williams. "Victor Omololu S. Olunloyo". State University of New York at Buffalo. http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/ounloyo_victoros.html. Retrieved 2009-12-12. 
  4. ^ Iyabo Lawal (September 29, 2009). "Oyo commissioner, Olunloyo disagree over report on collapsed LAUTECH building". Online Nigeria Daily News. http://news.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=8446&z=12. Retrieved 2009-12-12. 
  5. ^ By Wole Efunnuga (October 11, 2009). "2011: There may be no automatic ticket for Oyo PDP aspirants -Dr Omololu Olunloyo". Nigerian Tribune. http://www.tribune.com.ng/11102009/oneonone.html. Retrieved 2009-12-12. 
State governors in the Nigerian Second Republic (1979 - 1983)