Rahman Owokoniran is a former member of the

Lagos State House of Assembly The Lagos State House of Assembly is the state legislature of Lagos State. It is situated along Governor's Avenue in the state capital, Ikeja. The House of Assembly is currently under the All Progressives Congress political party which is the cu ...

. He was appointed

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for Housing (2003) and then commissioner for chieftaincy and boundary affairs (2006) under

Bola Tinubu Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu (born 29 March 1952) is a Nigerian accountant and politician who served as the Governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 and Senator for Lagos West during the brief Third Republic. In June 2022, he was chosen as the A ...

's tenure as Lagos State Governor. He led as the chairman of the committee for the creation of the twenty

Local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a State (administrative division), state, province, divi ...

s and seventeen Local development councils in

Lagos State Lagos State ( yo, Ìpínlẹ̀ Èkó) is a States of Nigeria, state in South West (Nigeria), southwestern Nigeria. Of the 36 States of Nigeria, states, it is both the List of Nigerian states by population, most populous and List of Nigerian state ...

. He currently emerged as the Secretary of

Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Nigeria, along with its main rival, the All Progressives Congress. Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won eve ...

after elections which were held in Osogbo,

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recently.

Education

Rahman Owokoniran was born into the Alhaji A.S.B. Owokoniran family. He received his B.A. Political Science from the

Eastern Washington University Eastern Washington University (EWU) is a public university in Cheney, Washington. It also offers programs at a campus in EWU Spokane at the Riverpoint Campus and other campus locations throughout the state. Founded in 1882, the university is ...

, Cheney, Washington State, United States of America and his Masters of Public Administration also from Eastern Washington University.

Career and Politics

Rahman Akanni Owokoniran is the new South-West Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Secretary. But he has been around since the Second Nigerian Republic. Owokoniran was part of the formation of the Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, on whose platform he became a member of

in 1983. He became Chairman of the Congress for National Consensus, CNC. He moved to

Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria) The Alliance for Democracy is a progressive opposition political party in Nigeria. It was formed on 9 September 1998. At the 2003 legislative elections, 12 April 2003, the party won 8.8% of the popular vote and 34 out of 360 seats in the Nig ...

, AD, and was appointed Chairman, Lagos State Local Government Council Creation Committee, which created twenty LGAs and seventeen LCDAs. He was appointed Commissioner for Housing (2003) and then Commissioner for Chieftaincy and Boundary Affairs (2006). He is a chieftain of the

and has served as political Campaigns Director General for Senator Bola Ahmad Tinubu, Jimi Agbaje, Lamido, Atiku Abubaka, etc. He was also former deputy chairman of the PDP in

References

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