Seyi Adisa finally listens to his people, sets to run for House of Assembly

Seyi Adisa has effectively managed to combine his passion for law, business and public service by forging a career that has enabled him to successfully do all. He posseses an incredibly strong leadership and time management skills and is efficient at building and a described as team player. Seyi is the Principal Private Secretary to the Executive Governor of Oyo State and the Founding Partner of T&A Legal, a commercial law firm which grew from two lawyers to 17 lawyers in 3 offices within 8 years. Seyi has managed the commercial department and increased the firm’s client base from only start-ups to include blue-chip companies, multinationals and government agencies. He has strong commercial acumen and this enables him to facilitate deals and create opportunities for his clients.

As the Principal Private Secretary, Seyi coordinates the activities of the Office of the Governor and interfaces with all Ministry Departments and Agencies of Government. As such, Seyi is adept in planning, administration, organization and has excellent interpersonal skills as he has to deal with diverse groups of people with tact and diplomacy.

Seyi is committed to community development through community outreach projects. He heads the team in his Church which is devoted to impacting neighborhoods around the city of Ibadan through medical and skill acquisition outreach. He also actively supports entrepreneurs and has started the Non-Profit Organisation called 7Eleven Foundation which teaches entrepreneurs, both business and technical skills, in order to create sustainable businesses and tackle unemployment in Nigeria. To date, 7Eleven Foundation has been able to support numerous start- ups and entrepreneurs by providing them with business workshops, mentors as well as funding.

He is a graduate of the University of Birmingham, where he finished with a Second Class Upper in Law, before attending BPP Law School for his Legal Practice Course (LPC) where he obtained a Distinction. He similarly finished the Nigerian Law School with a Second Class Upper and also obtained the national award for the best student in Corporate Secretaryship for the Chartered Secretaries and Administration course. He is currently studying for a Masters’ in Public Administration to complement his role in public service. He has attended several trainings including Harvard’s Continuing Education modules and the Daystar Leadership Academy courses. He is a member of the Nigerian Bar, the International Bar Association and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria.

For leisure, he enjoys traveling and does it as often as he can. He also enjoys mentoring and coaching and was awarded the Millennium Volunteers Award for devoting over 100 hours to coaching kids football whilst at University. Seyi is married and has a daughter. He is running for a political office in the 2019 Elections to go to the house of Assembly.

Many have wondered why seyi wants emerge at the house of Assembly with his pedigree , experience and all he achieved in his private business as a lawyer but seyi will tell you that his love for his people means no sacrifice is too much to turn things around,he stated that things must change for the better in his constituency and it must be what the people want and not what he wants .
The distinct quality about seyi is his humility and the fact that he allows duty process to take his toil in his quest to serve his people and not throw around his weight as one of the people who really have the ears of Governor Abiola Ajimobi. Many are of the opinion that this through bred, Seyi will be a blessing to the house of Assembly and indeed Oyo state.