Adedapo Oluseun Abiodun MFR CON[1] ((Listenⓘ); born 29 May 1960) is a Nigerian businessman and politician, who has served as Governor of Ogun State since May 2019.
Alongside a business career, Abiodun entered electoral politics and was the board chairman of the Corporate Affairs Commission.
[12] Abiodun's' political career started in 1998 when he contested and won the Ogun East Senatorial seat on the platform of the defunct United Nigeria Congress Party but the victory was truncated due to the aborted third republic.
[16] On assumption of office, the implementation of Building Our Future Together Agenda began and is anchored on Five Development Pillars codenamed I.S.E.Y.A (Infrastructure, Social well being and welfare, Education, Youth empowerment and job creation and Agriculture).
[22] In his defense, Abiodun stated that he had never claimed to finish his degree at the University of Ife and attempted to dismiss the controversy as political "mudslinging.
[25] As a result of the Pandora Papers leaks, the Premium Times reported on Abiodun's involvement in two offshore companies known tax haven, the British Virgin Islands.
[26][27] In 2022, Sahara Reporters published the criminal record of Abiodun's arrested in 1986 for credit card fraud, petty theft, and check forgery in addition to injuring a police officer in an attempt to resist arrest in Miami-Dade County in the United States under the pseudonym "Shawn Michael Davids.