H.E. (Surv.) Abiodun Jacob Aluko, FCIML

Surv. Abiodun Jacob Aluko hails from Ikere, Ekiti State.

He is a Licensed Surveyor, Mapping and Environmental Consultant and Geographic Information System (GIS) Expert; Land Resources Management, Housing and Urban Development Consultant; an Engineering Geologist, Geophysical Exploration and Infrastructural Development Consultant.

Young Abiodun had exhibited high traits of brilliance even before he started school. In all the institutions he attended he always took the lead. At Annunciation (Sec) School, Ikere Ekiti, he was nicknamed Professor.

Surv. Aluko attended the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, where he studied Applied Geophysics. He graduated from the institution in flying colours in 1976.

After his NYSC at the Industrial Development Center, Owerri, Imo State in 1977, Surv. Aluko joined the Civil Service of Old Ondo State. He was later trained as a professional Surveyor at the popular School of Surveying, Oyo, where he left a yet to be broken record as he passed all the qualifying examinations at one sitting ahead of all his colleagues and seniors in 1983.

He rose to the position of Head of Department of Surveying in the Ondo State Housing Corporation in 1985 before voluntarily quitting the public service.

He, thereafter, went into private professional practice and also into Corporate administration by joining the Ondo State Council of Chambers of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (OSCCCIMA) in 1986 where he served in various capacities as Director General/Council Secretary, Vice President, and ultimately the pioneer President of Ekiti State Chambers of Commerce in 1996.

Apart from being a member of so many Land Management and Infrastructural Resources Development Organizations, Surv. Aluko is also a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Administration of Nigeria as well as Fellow of Chartered Institute of Management and Leadership, Commonwealth of Kentucky, USA.

Surv. Abiodun Aluko subsequently joined politics and he was elected the Deputy Governor of Ekiti State in 2003. As Deputy Governor, Surv. Aluko performed excellently well, which assisted the administration to lay the foundation of the physical development of Ekiti State on which subsequent administrations have been building.

As the Deputy Governor, Surv. Abiodun Aluko was in charge of the Political and Economic Department responsible for Government Policy Formulation and Government Public Corporations; Local Government Administration and Financial management; Chieftaincy Affairs Dept; Christian and Muslim Welfare Boards; Chairman State Tenders Board for the award of contracts; Vice Chairman State Executive Council; Chairman National/State Boundary Commission; Vice Chairman State Security Council; to mention a few.

At the national level, Surv. Aluko was the Chairman of Mobilisation and Evaluation Sub-Committee of the National Cocoa Development Committee; Member, National and Chairman South-West Cotton Development Committee and Member, National Rice Development Committee.

After leaving office as Deputy Governor, he had served in other capacities. He was a member of Governing Councils of three different Federal Universities viz: Bayero University, Kano; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State and University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

Surv. Abiodun Aluko is a recipient of many honorary Chieftaincy titles and Awards of Excellence too numerous to list but including the OLU-OMO of Ikere kingdom Ekiti State; the BABA-IJO of St John’s Ang. Church, Ikere Ekiti; Awards of Excellence by the Ekiti and Ondo States Chapters of Obafemi Awolowo University Alumni Associations; Annunciation School Old Boys Association; Rotary Club, Akure; Ekiti State National Students Union; Nigerian Institution of Surveyors; Patron, ALL Farmers Association of Nigeria, Ekiti State; Life Fellow of the Ondo State, Ekiti State and National Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture ( NACCIMA) of Nigeria.

He is happily married and blessed with children.

Surv. Abiodun Jacob Aluko is currently the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.