{"id":24098,"date":"2018-06-12T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T11:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=24098"},"modified":"2018-07-23T16:14:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:14:37","slug":"olusola-prof-kolapo-olubunmi","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/olusola-prof-kolapo-olubunmi\/","title":{"rendered":"OLUSOLA-Eleka, Prof.   Kolapo Olubunmi"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Kolapo Olusola is a diligent, hardworking and principled leader whose legacies and achievements in the areas of human-power empowerment and capacity building during the past few years as the Ekiti State Deputy Governor has continued to attract many admirers and followers to him. As an epitome of humility, he radiates love and affection towards people around him. More significantly, his unflinching loyalty to his boss, His Excellency, Prof Peter Ayodele Fayose, the Executive Governor of Ekiti State is notable and has made both the young and old people of Ekiti adjudge him as \u201cStabilizing Factor\u201d and a special gift not only to his boss but to the entire people of Ekiti State. Until his election as Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Prof Olusola was an accomplished teacher in the Department of Building, Obafemi Awolowo University for twenty-four (24) years. Under his supervision, Ekiti State represented Nigeria in an international debate competition in Singapore and was awarded the \u201cBest First-Timer Performance\u201d trophy; just as Ekiti State was equally rated the overall best in Young Nigerian Scientist Presidential Award (out of 774 participating students) in 2017. In addition, Ekiti State emerged with Best Performance in Junior Engineers, Technologists and Scientists (JETS) in Interstate Quiz Competition in 2017; also, the state won the overall best student performance in 2016 (Science Teachers Association of Nigeria) STAN-organized Science written and quiz competition. Prof Olusola is an ordained Pastor in Christ Apostolic Church Worldwide. He stands out in his mentorship roles as the Former National Coordinator of the Christ Apostolic Church Students\u2019 Association (CACSA) Fellowships in Nigerian Higher Institutions. He is currently a member of the Governing Council of Christ Apostolic Church Students\u2019 Association being the apex body of the group. His achievements are being attested to by many young people of the church especially on moral and spiritual development, leadership capacity-building, self-discovery and maximization of good talents; which he successfully achieved as the Osun State Coordinator,1998-2004 and later as the Head, Directorate of Higher Institution, NYSC and TEENS Affairs for 10 years, 2004- 2014. As a mentor and teacher to students, he is renowned for his teachings on integrity, faithfulness, diligence and so many other aspects of leadership traits and of course the doctrines of faithfulness and loyalty as ways to be effective and productive as future leaders. Prof. Kolapo Olusola was a Governorship Aspirant for Ekiti State 2018 election however he lost to Dr. Kayode Fayemi on the 16th of July 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":24100,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2464,2439],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-24098","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professor","category-teacher"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/24098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/24098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24102,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/24098\/revisions\/24102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24098"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=24098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}