Adebayo Shittu

Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu (born 23 March 1953) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as minister of communications of Nigeria from 2015 to 2019.

[1] Shittu gained admission into University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun South West, Nigeria in the year 1974.

[3] In 1983, Shittu was elected as a member of the Oyo State House of Assembly in the second republic.

In 2011, he contested of Gubernatorial ticket under the platform of C.P.C and lost out to the incumbent of late senator Abiola Ajimobi.

During the first tenure of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, he was appointed as the Minister of communications in Nigeria from the year 2015 - 2019.