{{Short description|Nigerian politician (1940–2020)}} {{Use Nigerian English|date=June 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Bamidele Olumilua | image = File:Former_governor_of_Ondo_state,_Bamidele_Olumilua.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | office1 = Governor of Ondo State | deputy1 = Olusegun Agagu | term_start1 = 3 January 1992 | term_end1 = 17 November 1993 | predecessor1 = Sunday Abiodun Olukoya | successor1 = Mike Torey | birth_date = 1940 | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and given age|df=y|2020|6|4|80}} | death_place = Ikere-Ekiti, Nigeria | party = }} '''Bamidele Isola Olumilua'''{{Audio|Bamidele_Isola_Olumilua.wav|listen}} (1940 – 4 June 2020) was a Nigerian politician who was the elected governor of Ondo State, Nigeria from January 1992 to November 1993 during the Nigerian Third Republic,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-06-04 |title=Ex-Ondo governor, Bamidele Olumilua, is dead |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/396084-ex-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead.html |access-date=2022-03-19 |language=en-GB|newspaper=Premium Times}}</ref> elected on the Social Democratic Party (SDP) platform. He was forced to leave office when the military regime of general Sani Abacha took power. He served as a Nigerian diplomat to the state of Canada.<ref name=wstate>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Nigeria_federal_states.htm |title=Nigerian States |publisher=WorldStatesmen |accessdate=2010-03-27}}</ref> His deputy governor was Olusegun Agagu, who later became Governor of Ondo State from 29 May 2003 until February 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200902270140.html |title=Ondo - Tale of a Titanic Electoral War |work=ThisDay |author=James Sowole |date=26 February 2009 |accessdate=2010-03-27}}</ref> He was the Chancellor, Ekiti State University.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.unad.edu.ng/unad-news/347-olumilua-becomes-eksu-chancellor-prof-osuntokun-pro-chancellor.html |title=OLUMILUA BECOMES EKSU CHANCELLOR, PROF OSUNTOKUN PRO-CHANCELLOR |access-date=2012-04-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314102802/http://unad.edu.ng/unad-news/347-olumilua-becomes-eksu-chancellor-prof-osuntokun-pro-chancellor.html |archive-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Olumilua joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 1998. He was appointed the Chairman of the Christian Pilgrims Board.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200911110210.html?page=2 |title=Sixteen Years After - Where Are Babangida's Civilian Governors? |work=ThisDay |author=Ademola Adeyemo |date=10 November 2009 |accessdate=2003-03-27}}</ref> In August 2005, the PDP stated that he was no longer a member of the party.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=4623&z=12 |title=Ekiti PDP disowns Olumilua |date=August 15, 2005 |author=Adesina Wahab |work=OnlineNigeria |accessdate=2003-03-27 |archive-date=27 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227053146/http://nm.onlinenigeria.com/templates/?a=4623&z=12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He later became one of the founding members of the Action Congress (AC) party, formed in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200903240213.html |work=Daily Independent (Lagos) |title=Atiku Must Apologise to AC - Olumilua |date=23 March 2009 |accessdate=2003-03-27}}</ref>
He died on 4 June 2020, aged 80.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-06-04 |title=Ex-Ondo governor, Bamidele Olumilua, is dead |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/396084-ex-ondo-governor-bamidele-olumilua-is-dead.html |access-date=2020-06-14 |language=en-GB|newspaper=Premium Times}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}} {{OndoStateGovernors}} {{State governors in the Nigerian Third Republic}}
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