Femi Gbajabiamila, the newly appointed Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu is, indubitably, not a stranger in any respect to Nigeria’s political sphere.

Popularly referred to as ‘Gbaja,’ the CoS is an age-long affiliate of Tinubu, and each have maintained this relationship on a gentle course.

No surprise he was designated because the third strongest man after the president and his vice, on the Executive stage of presidency.

The major obligation of a Chief of Staff is to behave because the principal aide and advisor to the President or Governor, because the case could also be. They function a key liaison between the President and different authorities officers, political leaders, and stakeholders.

Often considered the ‘gatekeeper’ to the President, the Chief of Staff doesn’t maintain direct constitutional powers. Yet, the affect and impression of the workplace on decision-making processes can’t be underestimated.

Olufemi Hakeem Gbajabiamila, the outgoing Speaker of the House of Representatives, was appointed because the CoS by Tinubu, on Friday, June 2.

He has over 20 years of expertise in Nigerian politics, making him aware of the modus operandi of the nation’s much-heated political system.

Born on June 25, 1962, Gbajabiamlila had his secondary schooling at Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos and proceeded from there to the King Williams College, Isle of Man, the United Kingdom for his Advanced Level.

He graduated on the prime of his class and went on to the University of Lagos for a three-year Bachelor of Laws diploma programme. He graduated from the University of Lagos with honours in 1983 and was referred to as to the Nigerian Bar in 1984.

Femi Gbajabiamila began his profession as a lawyer with the legislation agency of Bentley, Edu and Co., the place he distinguished himself with an exemplary self-discipline and good work ethic. He ultimately left Bentley, Edu and Co. to arrange his follow, Femi Gbaja and Co.

In 1998, he returned to highschool on the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, Georgia within the United States of America. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from John Marshall and earned for himself a Juris Doctor diploma. He then went on to put in writing and go the Georgia Bar exams, after which he arrange one other thriving legislation workplace the place he practised till his return to Nigeria.

Gbajabiamila delved into partisan politics and provided himself up for service on the platform of the then Alliance for Democracy and has thereafter been elected for six consecutive phrases to symbolize the folks of Surulere 1 Federal Constituency of Lagos within the National Assembly.

The CoS was at all times on the facet of reality and justice, and his views actually mirrored the needs and aspirations of his constituents. This was particularly evident throughout the “third term debate” when he was Chairman of the 2007 motion within the House, a gaggle primarily credited for ending the “third term agenda” of the then President, Olusegun Obasanjo.

He served because the Minority Whip of the home, and by the top of his second time period in workplace, Gbajabiamila had sponsored the very best variety of Bills within the National Assembly.

Rep. Gbajabiamila proposed an modification to the National Honours Act of 1964 to make stringent tips for choice of National Award nominees. Gbajabiamila thus grew to become the third and youngest Nigerian to reject National Honours after Late Chinua Achebe and Prof. Grace Alele-Williams.

In 2015, Gbajabiamila put himself ahead to steer the House as Speaker of the eighth House. He narrowly misplaced that election. He put himself ahead once more in 2019 and was on the twelfth of June, 2019 overwhelmingly elected Speaker of the ninth House of Representatives.

Gbajabiamila additionally served because the Chairman of the Conference of African Speakers of Parliament.