Bisi Egbeyemi
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Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi | |
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| Deputy Governor of Ekiti State | |
| In office 16 October 2018 – 16 October 2022 | |
| Governor | Kayode Fayemi |
| Preceded by | Kolapo Olushola |
| Succeeded by | Monisade Afuye |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 May 1944 |
| Died | 18 March 2023 (aged 78) Ado Ekiti, Nigeria |
| Party | All Progressives Congress |
| Alma mater | Obafemi Awolowo University |
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Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi (8 May 1944 – 18 March 2023)[1] was a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as deputy governor of Ekiti State from 2018 to 2022.[2][3][4]
Bisi Egbeyemi attended St. Saviour's Primary School, Ado-Ekiti and Holy Trinity Anglican School Ilawe-Ekiti (1958) and Baptist School, Ado-Ekiti (1959). He later attended Harding Memorial Secondary Modern School where he obtained his Modern School Certificate in 1962.
Egbeyemi studied privately while a laboratory assistant at Ekiti Parapo College, Ido-Ekiti, 1965, and when he was a bursar at Notre Dame Grammar School Usi-Ekiti from 1969 to 1972 during which he passed his West Africa School Certificate Examination as a private student and both G.C.E. 'O'Level and Advanced Level Examinations. He later attended the University of Lagos College of Education where he read Biology and Physical Education and passed with Distinction in Physical Education. He read law at the University of Ife (Now Obafemi Awolowo University) from 1977 to 1980[5] and was at the Nigerian Law School Victoria Island, Lagos between 1980 and 1981 where he obtained his Barrister at Law Certificate and was called to the Bar in 1981 as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.