Ekiti Governorship Aspirant, Oluwole Oluleye, Is Dead

Oluwole Oluleye, one of the governorship aspirants in the last July 14 governorship elections in Ekiti State is passed on.

Oluleye, who hailed from Efon Alaaye passed away in early hours of today in Abuja hospital after a brief illness.

According to family source, Dr. Oluleye had been admitted to the hospital few weeks ago for an undisclosed illness.

He was a former Secretary to the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA).

Oluleye was one of the thirty-three (33) APC governorship aspirants in 2018 governorship election in Ekiti State that produced Governor Kayode Fayemi.

Dr Oluwole Oluleye was born on 9th January, 1953 in Efon Alaaye, Ekiti State. He had his primary education at Apaukwa Municipal School, Army Barracks, Enugu, between 1959 and 1965, from where he proceeded to Igbo-Ekiti Grammar School, Nsukka and later Adekile Goodwill Grammar School, Ibadan for his secondary education.

He completed his Higher School at the famous Edo College in 1972. He attended the university of Ife (now OAU), Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Moor Plantation, Ibadan in 1974 for a Certificate Programme before proceeding to the Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA, where he successfully completed his first degree in Animal Science.

He was also at the Auburn University, Alabama, USA, where he bagged his M.Sc in 1979 in the same discipline in 1982.

He returned home for his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), which he had at the University of Ibadan where he served as a Lecturer in the department of Veterinary Medicine between 1983 and 1984.

He started his career in 1984 at the National Productivity Centre (NPC), a parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity, in Lagos as a Consultant. Between 1984 and 2000, he served as Assistant Director, Ag. Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Productivity and alter Director of Technological Services at the Abuja Headquarters of the NPC.

On 17th June, 2003, President Olusegun Obasanjo appointed him the Chief Executive of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency(PPPRA), after serving at various times as Rapporteur, Deputy Secretary and Acting Secretary to the Special Review Committees preceding the PPPRA.

He was sponsored by the UNDP/ILO to study Operations of the productivity Centres in Ghana, Guatemala and Chile in 1995; participated at the World Productivity Congress in Istanbul, Turkey in 1998 and represented Nigeria at the General Assembly of the International Labour Organization meeting in Geneva, Switzerland in 1998.

He had also participated in the Study Tours of South African and Spanish Downstream Petroleum Sub-sectors and several specialized courses and conferences on petroleum industry, especially downstream operations. Some of these were the Petroleum Products Pricing economics Training at the Institute Du Petrole in Paris, France, the International oil Supply, Transportation, Refining and Trading at the Oxford Princeton Programme, UK, a course on “Resolving Conflicts: Preventing and Addressing Conflicts in Petroleum Organisations” organised by Petrol-skills, London, UK, and a course on “Management Practice for Petroleum Industry Executive” at Borough College, London, UK.

He is a member of the Oil and Gas Implementation Committee (OGIC). Dr Oluleye has delivered several papers on deregulation at several national and international fora and edited a book on the deregulation reform process titled, ‘’Liberalization of the Downstream Petroleum Sector: the Nigerian Experience’’, published in 2005.

He is widely traveled, and is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), Fellow of the International Labour Institute and Fellow, German Centre for International Development. He is happily married to Patty Chinyere (nee Okoye) with children. His hobbies are fishing/angling, watching/playing soccer and lawn tennis.

He is at present, one of the Directors of Hotel Solutions Hospitality Nigeria Limited.

Dr. Oluwole Oluleye has held different leadership positions in the Nigerian oil and gas sector. He then served as the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), a parastatal under the Ministry of Petroleum Resources established for the purpose of development, promotion and implementation of petroleum technology and manpower development through research and training. Dr. Oluleye was also the Secretary of the Presidential Projects Assessment Committee in 2010.

Dr. Oluleye is a Fellow, International Labour Organization and Fellow, German Centre for International Development.

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