Navy Captain Omoniyi Caleb Olubolade (born 30 November 1954) is a former Military Administrator of Bayelsa State

Bayelsa State

Bayelsa State is a state in southern Nigeria in the core Niger Delta region, between Delta State and Rivers State. Its capital is Yenagoa. The language spoken here is Ijaw language and dialects of the Ijaw language such as Nembe, Atissa, Akassa, Ogbia, etc. However, like the rest of Nigeria,...

, Nigeria

Nigeria

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 who was appointed Minister of Special Duties on 6 April 2010, when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, BNER, GCON is the 14th Head of State and current President of Nigeria.He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the...

 announced his new cabinet.

Olubolade was born on 30 November 1954 at Ipoti-Ekiti in Ijero

Ijero

Ijero Ekiti is a city in Ekiti State of Nigeria. The main language spoken by the indigenes of Ijero Ekiti is Ekiti dialect and the Yoruba language. Ijero-Ekiti is the headquarter of Ijero Local government Area which consists of other towns such as Ikoro Ekiti, Ipoti-Ekiti, Ara-Ekiti, Epe-Ekiti,...

 LGA of Ekiti State

Ekiti State

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He was commissioned into the Nigerian Navy in 1974, and attended courses including the Britannia Royal Naval College

Britannia Royal Naval College

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, UK in 1975 and the Naval College of Engineering, India in 1979.
On June 9, 1997 he was appointed Military Administrator of the newly created Bayelsa State by the military government of General Sani Abacha

Sani Abacha

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As governor, on 4 May 1998 he established the Bayelsa State Council for Arts & Culture.
Olubolade retired from the Nigerian Navy in 1999 at the start of the new democratic regime.

In April 2006, Olubolade was briefly arrested during a House of Representatives by-election in the Ekiti South II Federal Constituency.
He was an aspirant to become Action Congress

Action Congress

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 (AC) candidate for governor of Ekiti State in the April 2007 elections.
Later in 2006 he defected to the People's Democratic Party

People's Democratic Party (Nigeria)

The People's Democratic Party is a political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the right wing of the political spectrum. It has won every single Presidential elections since 1999, namely: 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011, and is the dominant party in the Fourth Republic.-History:In...

 (PDP). He was appointed Chairman of the Ekiti State Project Monitoring Committee by Governor Segun Oni.