[4] He attended Ansarudeen College, Ikare where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate.
On completion of his secondary education, he was employed as a teacher at modern school in Ogbagi, Ondo State but left the school to join the services of Lagos State Ministry of Transport.
[6] On 24 February 2009, he was sworn in as the deputy governor of Ondo State on the platform of the Labour Party after the previous deputy governor Omolade Oluwateru's reelection was notified by a Court of Appeal.
[7] On Thursday 26 March 2015, he defected to the All Progressives Congress[8][9] having previously defected with governor Olusegun Mimiko from the Labour Party to the Peoples Democratic Party in October 2014.
[10][11] He was impeached by the Ondo State House of Assembly on 27 April 2015, following his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress a month earlier.