Patrick Dele-Cole (born 1940) is a Nigerian politician, journalist, historian, and diplomat who in 1976 became the managing director of the Daily Times.
[1][2] He was also a presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party in the early 1990s,[3] and was Nigeria's ambassador to Argentina and Brazil.
[4] He is author of the book Modern Traditional Elites in the Politics of Lagos.
[5] He attended the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he earned a first class honours degree.
[6][7] As a managing director of the Daily Times in 1976 he restored the paper's former influence[8] to become one of Africa's largest at that time,[9] and brought in influential journalists, including Dele Giwa and Dr. Stanley Macebuh.