Ayo Hulayat Omidiran | |
Office: | Member of the House of Representatives |
Term Start: | May 2011 |
Term End: | 2019 |
Predecessor: | Patricia Etteh |
Successor: | Taiwo Oluga |
Constituency: | Ayedaade/Irewole/Isokan |
Birth Date: | 10 November 1963 |
Nationality: | Nigerian |
Party: | APC |
Alma Mater: | Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria |
Profession: | Politician |
Ayo Hulayat Omidiran, born 10 November 1965, is a Nigerian politician and former federal lawmaker representing the Ayedaade/Irewole/Isokan federal constituency in Osun State. She is a member of the All Progressive Congress. She is a native of Ikire in the Irewole local government area of Osun State.[1]
She attended Ayedaade Grammar School Ikire, Osun State and obtained a West Africa School Certificate in 1980. She then proceeded to the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Biochemistry in 1985.
She contested for the Federal House of Representatives for Ayedaade/Irewole/Isokan federal constituency in 2011 and was elected. She ran for re-election in 2015 and was re-elected under the umbrella of the APC. She has held various positions in the house including deputy chairman, House Committee on Sports; member House Committee on Judiciary, Communications, Interior, Solid Minerals, Women Affairs and Women in Parliament.[2]
In 2002, she became a member of the Nigerian Football Association Board and remained there till 2005. Since 2006, she has been a member of the FIFA Women Committee. She became the proprietor of Omidiran Babe, a female football club in Osogbo, Osun State in 1997.[1] In 2017, she was appointed the head of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Women Football Committee.[3]
She is a fan of football. She sponsored the Ayedaade-Irewole-Isokan Federal Constituency Football Competition in early 2018 which climaxed with the finals at the Ayedaade High School, Ikire, Osun State.[4]