Former Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Honourable Dimeji Bankole has stepped down for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Elected at the age of 37, Bankole is the youngest Speaker in the history of the House[4] and 2019 Ogun State gubernatorial election candidate under the platform of the Action Democratic Party (ADP).
A Yoruba man of aristocratic background, he was a businessman before being elected to the House of representative. A Muslim[6] Egba, Bankole was born in Abeokuta in what is now known as Ogun State on 14 November 1969. His father, Alani Bankole, a businessman, former National Vice-Chairman and acting Chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and holder of the chieftaincy titles of the Oluwo of Iporo Ake and the Seriki Jagunmolu of Egbaland, and his mother, who is one of his father’s wives, Atinuke Bankole, who was herself the Ekerin Iyalode of Egbaland.