Meet Buhari’s Running Mate, Prof Yemi Osinbajo (BRIEF PROFILE)

Yemi Osinbajo, 55, is a Senior Advocate
of Nigeria and Senior Partner in the Law
firm of Simmons Cooper Partners.
His tertiary education was at the
Universityof Lagos and the London
School of Economics where he obtained
the LLB andLLM degrees respectively.

He was appointed the Lagos State
Attorney General and Commissioner for
Justice in 1999 and reappointed for a
second term in 2003. During the period of
his public service, he commenced the
Lagos State justice reform project. A
prominent feature of that project was the
establishment of the Directorate for
Citizens’ Rights (DCR) which provides free
legal services and legal representation to
indigent citizens of the state. This initiative
gave a voice to many who would
otherwise not have a way to access their
rights.
Prior to that appointment, Osinbajo, a
Professor of Law, was the Head of Public
Law at the Faculty of Law, University of
Lagos.
Between 1988 and 1992, he was the
Special Adviser to the Attorney-General
and Minister of Justice of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. He also served as a
staff member of the United Nations and
Member of the United Nation’s Secretary
General’s Committee of Experts on
Conduct and Discipline of UN
Peacekeeping personnel around the globe.
He is currently an Ethics Advisor to the
Ethics Committee of the African
Development Bank and is a non-executive
Director of Citibank.Prof. Osinbajo is Co-
founder & Board Member Convention on
Business Integrity and the Justice
Research Institute Ltd. He has also
authored several law books.
In 2007, Prof. and his wife Oludolapo
founded “The Orderly Society Trust”, a
non- governmental organization that is
dedicated to the promotion of Christian
ethics and orderliness.He is a resident
pastor at the Olive Tree House of Prayer
for All Nations, Banana Island, a parish of
the RCCG.
He lives in Lagos with his wife, Dolapo
Osinbajo, who is a grandchild of Obafemi
Awolowo with three children.