Rauf Aregbesola

Quick Facts

Full Name	Rauf Aregbesola
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 25, 1957(1957-05-25)
Age	67
Country	Nigeria
Horoscope	Taurus

Rauf Aregbesola Biography

Rauf Aregbesola is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 25, 1957 in Nigeria. He was a politician who served as governor of Nigeria’s Osun State. He was a member the All Progressives Congress party, and has more than 600,000. followers on his Twitter account.

Both he and his fellow politician Both he and fellow political figure Obafemi Awolowo were born in Nigeria. were both born in Nigeria.

Aregbesola’s interest and involvement in politics dates back to his undergraduate days when he was Speaker of the Students’ Parliament (1977–1978) at The Polytechnic, Ibadan, and the President of the Black Nationalist Movement (1978–1980). He was also an active supporter of other progressive students’ movements nationwide, which earned him, for instance, a life membership in the National Association of Technological Students. In June 1990, he became an elected delegate to the Social Democratic Party Inaugural Local Government Area Congress. In July of the same year, he was also a delegate to its first National Convention in Abuja. Aregbesola, as a pro- democracy and human rights activist, was a major participant in the demilitarization and pro-democracy struggles of the 1990s in Nigeria.

Aregbesola is a Muslim born into a family of both Muslims and Christians. He had his primary and secondary education in Ondo State. He later attended The Polytechnic, Ibadan, where he studied Mechanical Engineering and graduated in 1980.

He was married Sherifat Aregbesola.

Rauf Aregbesola Net Worth

Rauf Aregbesola is one of the richest Politician from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rauf Aregbesola 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was the Lagos State Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure.

He said that he had never received a salary while in office.

Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola (born 25 May 1957) is the current Minister of the Federal Ministry of Interior of Nigeria. Before that he was the fourth civilian governor of Osun State. He is a native of Ilesa, Osun.

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Who is Rauf Aregbesola Dating?

According to our records, Rauf Aregbesola married to Sherifat Aregbesola. As of December 1, 2023, Rauf Aregbesola’s is not dating anyone.

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In August 2009 the police arrested Aregbesola, apparently for involvement in the alleged forgery of a police report on the conduct of the elections. Later that month he sought bail so that he could perform the lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia. In August 2010 the police summoned him to make a statement about a 14 June 2007 bomb explosion near the ministry of water resources. Aregbesola denied any involvement, stating that he was in Abuja at the time. Having gone through the tribunal of first instance, an appeal and a retrial tribunal, the second appeal court, delivering judgment on 26 November 2010, declared Aregbesola governor and ordered that he be sworn in the next day. The Court was presided over by Justice Clara Bata Ogunbiyi, who was flanked by four other justices; Honourable Justices M.L. Garba, P.A. Galinge, Chima Centus Nweze, and A. Jauro. The court unanimously nullified the election results of the 10 local governments pleaded for by Aregbesola and set aside the judgement of a lower tribunal which had confirmed the election of Oyinlola, after the deductions of the cancelled votes had left Oyinlola with 172,880 votes and Aregbesola with 198,799, thereby returning Aregbesola as the duly elected governor of the state, three years after the elections.

Facts & Trivia

Rauf Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Rauf Aregbesola celebrates birthday on May 25 of every year.

Following Tinubu’s tenure as governor of Lagos State, Aregbesola ran on the platform of the then Action Congress (AC) for the Governorship of Osun State in the April 2007 elections.