He invested in education, constructing primary and secondary schools buildings and providing equipment and improved incentives for teachers.
[6] He was appointed Military Administrator of Osun State in August 1998,[7] handing over power to the civilian governor Adebisi Akande in May 1999.
[9] At one point in the campaign, gun wielding youths started shooting when Bamigboye was speaking at a rally of his supporters, but he escaped unharmed.
[10] Bamigboye appealed the electoral result where Dr Bukola Saraki had won the race for governor, claiming there had been widespread malpractices, corruption, violence, intimidation and exclusion of the photograph and logo of the Accord Party from the ballot papers, but in July 2008 an electoral appeal court upheld Saraki victory.
[11] In September 2009 Theophilus Bamigboye returned to the PDP and was reconciled with Olusola Saraki, father of the incumbent governor.