Ex- Ondo Governor , Evangelist Bamidele Olumilua Is Dead

The former old Ondo State governor, Evangelist
Bamidele Ishola Olumilua, is dead after a brief
illness.
He was 80 years.
Olumilua is an indigene of Ikere Ekiti, the
headquarter of the Ikere Local Government Area
of the Ekiti State.
Olumilua, who was the elected Governor of Ondo
State from January 1992 to November 1993
during the Nigerian Third Republic.
He was elected on the platform of the Social
Democratic Party.
He was forced to leave office when the military
regime of General Sani Abacha took power. His
deputy governor was Olusegun Agagu, who later
became Governor of Ondo State from 29 May
2003 until February 2009.
He was the Chancellor, Ekiti State University
during the first Kayode Fayemi regime.
Olumilua joined the People’s Democratic Party
(PDP) in 1998.
He was appointed as the Chairman of the
Christian Pilgrims Board.
In August 2005, the PDP stated that he was no
longer a member of the party. He later became
one of the founding members of the Action
Congress (AC) party, formed in 2006.