Adedayo Isaac Omolafe (18 April 1964 – 16 August 2021) was a Nigerian politician and legislator of the

Nigerian National Assembly The National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a bicameral legislature established under section 4 of the Nigerian Constitution. It consists of a Senate with 109 members and a 360-member House of Representatives. The body, modeled ...

. He represented

Akure North Akure North is a Local Government Area in Ondo State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Iju/Itaogbolu. It has an area of and a population of 131,587 at the 2006 census. The postal code A postal code (also known locally in var ...

South South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Pro ...

federal constituency in the

Nigerian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly. The Senate is the upper chamber. The House of Representatives has 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the plurality (or ...

. He hailed from Akure in the southwestern part of Nigeria. He was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party and was also known by the moniker, Expensive.

Political career

He served as the councillor Representing Ward 2 (Ijomu/Obanla), Akure Local Government between 1995 and 1996 and as the supervisory councillor for health in Akure South Local Government in 2000. In 2009, he served as the chairman of Akure South Local Government under the governorship of

Olusegun Agagu Olusegun Kokumo Agagu (16 February 1948 – 13 September 2013) was a Nigerian politician who was Governor of Ondo State in Nigeria from 29 May 2003 until February 2009, when a court voided his re-election as governor on account of electoral ...

. He was elected into the 9th session of the Nigerian Federal House of Representatives to represent Akure North/South constituency. Omolafe was referred to as a philanthropist for his programmes geared towards community empowerment. He was honored for his contributions to society by the Nigerian society for engineers.

Death

He died on Monday 16 August 2021 at Federal Medical Centre Owo.

References

Nigerian politicians People from Ondo State 2021 deaths 1964 births {{Nigeria-politician-stub