- Christopher Omoworare Babajide
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Christopher Omoworare Babajide Senator for Osun East Incumbent Assumed office
May 2011Preceded by Iyiola Omisore Personal details Born 31 October 1968
Ilesa, Osun State, NigeriaChristopher 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.
Background
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]
Political career
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]
References
- ^ a b "About Babajide Omoworare". Christopher Omoworare Babajide. http://babajideomoworare.com/about.html. Retrieved 2011-05-05.
- ^ "Collated Senate results". INEC. http://www.inecnigeria.org/downloads/?did=114. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
FCT Philips Tanimu Aduda (PDP)
S Ahmed Hassan Barata (PDP)
C Bello Mohammed Tukur (PDP)
N Bindo Jibrilla (PDP)NW Aloysius Akpan Etok (PDP)
NE Ita Enang (PDP)
S Helen Esuene (PDP)C Chris Ngige (ACN)
S Emmanuel Nnamdi Uba (PDP)
N John Okechukwuemeka (PDP)C Ahmed Abdul Ningi (PDP)
N Babayo Garba Gamawa (PDP)
S Adamu Gumba (PDP)W Heineken Lokpobiri (PDP)
E Clever Ikisikpo (PDP)
C Emmanuel Paulker (PDP)S David Mark (PDP)
NW George Akume (ACN)
NE Barnabas Andyar Gemade (PDP)C Ahmed Zanna (PDP)
N Maina Maaji Lawan (ANPP)
S Mohammed Ali Ndume (PDP)S Bassey Otu (PDP)
N Benedict Ayade (PDP)
C Victor Ndoma-Egba (PDP)S James Manager (PDP)
N Arthur Okowa Ifeanyi (PDP)
C Akpor Pius Ewherido (DPP)N Christopher Nwankwo (PDP)
S Sonni Ogbuoji (PDP)
C Paulinus Igwe Nwagu (PDP)S Ehigie Edobor Uzamere (ACN)
C Odion Ugbesia (PDP)
N Domingo Alaba Obende (ACN)C Babafemi Ojudu (ACN)
N Olubunmi Adetunbi (ACN)
S Anthony Adeniyi (ACN)N Ayogu Eze (PDP)
E Gilbert E. Nnaji (PDP)
W Ike Ekweremadu (PDP)C Mohammed Danjuma Goje (PDP)
N Sa'idu Ahmed Alkali (PDP)
S Joshua M. Lidani (PDP)E Chris Anyanwu (APGA)
W Hope Uzodinma (PDP)
N Matthew Ifeanyi Nwagwu (PDP)NE Abdulaziz Usman (PDP)
NW Danladi Abdullahi Sankara (PDP)
SW Abdulmumini M. Hassan (PDP)N Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed (CPC)
S Nenadi Usman (PDP)
C Mohammed Saleh (CPC)N Bello Hayatu Gwarzo (PDP)
S Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya (ANPP)
C Basheer Garba Mohammed (PDP)S Abu Ibrahim (CPC)
C Ahmed Sani Stores (CPC)
N Abdu U. Yandomi (CPC)S Mohammed Magoro (PDP)
C Abubakar Atiku Bagudu (PDP)
N Isa Muhammed Galaudu (PDP)E Emmanuel Dangana Ocheja (PDP)
C Nurudeen Abatemi Usman (PDP)
W Smart Adeyemi (PDP)C Bukola Saraki (PDP)
N Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi (PDP)
S Simon Ajibola (PDP)E Gbenga Bareehu Ashafa (ACN)
W Ganiyu Solomon (ACN)
C Oluremi Tinubu (ACN)W Abdullahi Adamu (PDP)
N Yusuf Musa Nagogo (CPC)
S Suleiman Asonya Adokwe (PDP)E Dahiru Awaisu Kuta (PDP)
N Ibrahim Musa (CPC)
S Zainab Abdulkadir Kure (PDP)W Akin Babalola Kamar Odunsi (ACN)
C Olugbenga Onaolapo Obadara (ACN)
E Sefiu Adegbenga Kaka (ACN)N Robert Ajayi Boroffice (LP)
C Akinyelure Patrick Ayo (LP)
S Boluwaji Kunlere (LP)N Hosea Ayoola Agbola (PDP)
S Olufemi Lanlehin (ACN)
C Ayoade Ademola Adeseun (ACN)E Abdullahi Ibrahim Gobir (PDP)
N Ahmed Muhammad Maccido (PDP)
S Umaru Dahiru (PDP)N Aisha Jummai (PDP)
C Abubakar Umar Tutare (PDP)
S Emmanuel G. Bwacha (PDP)W Ahmad Rufai Sani (ANPP)
C Kabir Garba Marafa (ANPP)
N Sahabi Alhaji Yaú (PDP)ACN: Action Congress of Nigeria - ANPP: All Nigeria People's Party - APGA: All Progressives Grand Alliance - CPC: Congress for Progressive Change - DPP Democratic People's Party - LP: Labour Party - PDP: People's Democratic Party
See also Members of the Senate of Nigeria in the 6th National Assembly (2007-2011) - Osun State
- Living people
- 1968 births
- Members of the Senate of Nigeria
- People from Osun State
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