Below are some facts about President Bola Tinubu’s Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila:
Gatekeepers News reports that President Bola Tinubu named Gbajabiamila his CoS in a statement signed by the Director of Information, Abiodun Oladunjoye on Friday.
See some facts about Tinubu’s CoS below:
Olufemi Hakeem Gbajabiamila was born on 25 June 1962 to Lateef Gbajabiamila and Olufunke Gbajabiamila in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.
Gbajabiamila attended Mainland Preparatory School for elementary education and Igbobi College in 1973, where he completed his secondary education.
He enrolled at King William’s College on the Isle of Man, United Kingdom for his A-Level.
Gbajabiamila later joined the University of Lagos, Nigeria and graduated with a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) with honors in 1983.
He was called to the Nigerian bar in 1984.
Gbajabiamila first worked for the law firm, Bentley Edu & Co., in Lagos, before establishing his own law firm, Femi Gbaja & Co.
He earned his Juris Doctor from Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School in Georgia, USA. Having passed his Georgian bar exam in 2001, Gbajabiamila went ahead to set up a law firm in Atlanta.
While he was in the USA, Gbajabiamila actively participated in the election of Bill Campbell who later went on to become Mayor of Atlanta.
He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2003, he represents the Surulere I constituency of Lagos State.
Gbajabiamila was the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives in the 7th National Assembly.
He was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria on 12 June 2019.
Gbajabiamila in the last election, won his sixth re-election into the lower legislative chamber. His appointment as the President’s CoS has brought an end to his political ambition in the National Assembly.