Chief Victor Olabisi Onabanjo (12 February 1927 – 14 April 1990) was governor of Ogun State in Nigeria from October 1979 – December 1983, during the Nigerian Second Republic.
He was educated at Baptist Academy in Lagos and at the Regent Street Polytechnic in the United Kingdom, where he studied journalism between 1950 and 1951.
[4] Olabisi Onabanjo was elected chairman of the Ijebu Ode Local Government Area in 1977 under the tutelage of Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
He was subsequently elected governor of Ogun State in October 1979 on the Unity Party of Nigeria platform.
[8] When General Muhammadu Buhari took power in a military coup, Onabanjo was thrown in jail for several years.