Oluranti Adebule

A Teacher Before a Politician

Adebule is from Ojo, in the western part of Lagos, and studied at Lagos State University. She lectured in religious studies at a state college of primary education in Epe and later in curriculum studies and related fields in the university’s Faculty of Education, where she also took part in committees on school monitoring and coordinated a sandwich degree programme in Osun State. She is styled Dr, and her official social media handle uses the Ph.D. title; the degree details were not stated in the profiles reviewed, so they are not listed here.

Commissioner and Secretary to the State Government

Bola Tinubu, then governor of Lagos, appointed her in October 2000 as Commissioner 1 of the Lagos State Post Primary Teaching Service Commission, a post she held until February 2005. She then sat on the Lagos State Scholarship Board from February to November 2005. In July 2011, Governor Babatunde Fashola appointed her Secretary to the State Government, the senior civil-service post in the state’s administration.

Deputy Governor of Lagos, 2015 to 2019

She was chosen as the running mate of Akinwunmi Ambode, the APC governorship candidate, and was sworn in as deputy governor on May 29, 2015. She oversaw the state education ministry and served until Ambode’s term ended on May 29, 2019, when Femi Hamzat succeeded her.

Senator for Lagos West

She won the Lagos West Senate seat in February 2023, polling 361,296 votes to 248,653 for the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Segun Adewale, and succeeded Senator Solomon Adeola. Adewale and his party challenged the result, but the election petition tribunal in Lagos dismissed the petition in a unanimous decision in August 2023 after finding that the petitioners had abandoned it.

Legislative Work and Constituency Programmes

Her best-known bill is the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Bill 2025, which would amend the 2022 law and create an independent central agency to manage and dispose of recovered assets, work now spread across 18 government agencies. By May 2025 the bill had passed second reading and been referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Legal Matters. She argued that the lack of coordination among the agencies had “made asset recovery opaque and unaccountable.” No later status for the bill was found.

At a Lagos event in January 2026, which she described as a mid-term account of her stewardship, she handed out commercial mini-buses, sewing machines, laptops and catering equipment, as well as cash grants of N200,000 each to some of about 1,000 constituents from the district’s 28 local government areas and councils. She said her next focus for the 2026 budget year would be inner roads. In October 2025, speaking at a research fair at Lagos State University, she urged the state House of Assembly to speed up the Lagos Innovation Bill, which would create a research and innovation fund and a legal framework for innovation hubs.

She has also inaugurated a federally funded skill acquisition centre in Odi-Olowo/Ojuwoye council area in Lagos, telling residents that “the money used in constructing this place was given to us by the Federal Government, which means it is your money.”

The 2027 Race and the Claims Behind It

Members of her campaign team told reporters in May 2026 that she had empowered 5,000 constituents that year and had sponsored 20 bills and co-sponsored more than 30, and that nobody contested the ticket with her because she was fully involved in her legislative duties. Those figures come from her own campaign team and were not independently verified. Because she was affirmed without a rival, her record was not tested in a contested party primary, and the other parties’ candidates for the seat had not been identified in the reports reviewed.

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