Yetunde Onanuga (born 11 September 1960) is a Nigerian politician who was the deputy governor of

Ogun state Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. Created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State. Ogun State borders Lagos State to the south, Oyo State and Osun State to the north, Ondo State to the east, and the Republic of Benin to the ...

from 2015 to 2019.

Life

Yetunde Onanuga was born at Adeoyo Hospital in

Ibadan Ibadan (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and over 6 million people within its me ...

, the capital of

Oyo State Oyo State is an inland state in southwestern Nigeria. Its capital is Ibadan, the third most populous city in the country and formerly the second most populous city in Africa. Oyo State is bordered to the north by Kwara State, to the east by Osun ...

in Nigeria. Her father was F.T. Fabamwo. She was educated in Ogun state and then in

Lagos Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the List of cities in Africa by population, second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national ca ...

where she obtained her teachers certificate. She later completed an

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

Ogun State University Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye is a state owned and operated university located in Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria. The university was founded on 7 July 1982 as Ogun State University (OSU) and was renamed Olabisi Onabanjo University on 2 ...

. She was working in the Lagos State ministry of environment when she was chosen as the running mate of the state governor

Ibikunle Amosun Ibikunle Amosun (born 25 January 1958) is a Nigerian politician, former governor of Ogun State and two-term senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He first served as an elected senator for Ogun Central district of Ogun State, Nigeria from Ap ...

in 2015. Amosun was the sitting candidate but his previous deputy governor had defected to an opposition party. Amosun chose Onanuga out of three possible candidates.How Amosun’s running mate emerged
19 December 2014, VanguardNGR, Retrieved 17 February 2016 Onanuga was elected deputy governor.HID Awolowo passes on at 99
2015, ThisDayLive, Retrieved 18 February 2016

References

1960 births Living people Politicians from Ibadan 21st-century Nigerian politicians Yoruba women in politics Olabisi Onabanjo University alumni 21st-century Nigerian women politicians All Progressives Congress politicians {{Nigeria-politician-stub