Her Excellency Mrs Bamidele Abiodun
Bamidele Abiodun is a Nigerian businesswoman, philanthropist and wife of Dapo Abiodun, governor of Ogun State, Nigeria.
Abiodun was born on July 16, 1966 to the family of Professor Oladipo Oduye, a former deputy vice chancellor at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and the late Mrs Abimbola Wosilat Oduye both from Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State.
Abiodun entered the world of business in the mid-1990s and is passionate about women and children, who have received support from her through personal endowments. In June 2019 she was appointed as the United Nations Sustainable Development Champion by the Civil Society Coalition on Sustainable Development (CSCSD), and in 2020 she was appointed chairperson of the Ogun State Management Committee on Violence Against Persons Prohibition Law (VAPP). As First Lady of Ogun State, she has initiated several programs with a focus on social welfare, health, education, poverty reduction, violence against women and the COVID 19 global pandemic response. She has also been linked with ongoing work at the School for Special Needs in Abeokuta, Ogun State. In November 2019, Abiodun presented her commitment to advance the implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Program of Action, at a high-level conference convened by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Nairobi, Kenya.