Barrister Abdul-Raheem Adebayo Shittu, simply known as Bayo Shittu, was the governorship candidate of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Oyo State during the 2011 elections. He was the youngest legislator (26) in Oyo state House of Assembly in the second republic. Shittu also served as the Oyo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice.
He attended public primary and middle schools in Ghana, where he had the first 10 years of his educational experience. Thereafter he came back home in Nigeria and attended Baptist High School in Shaki where, within three years and three months, succeeded in coming out with a very good result that distinguished him, at that time, in the whole of Oke Ogun area of Oyo State. Oke Ogun now comprises 10 Local Governments.
He went to University of Ife as it was then called for his first degree in Law between 1974 and 1978 and subsequently attended the Nigerian Law School at the end of which he was called to the Bar in July 1979 as a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
He started politics early in life so much that even while he was in the Nigerian Law School, he contested election into the Oyo State House of Assembly which he won and thus, at the age of 26, became the youngest Honourable Member of the Oyo State House of Assembly in the Second Republic and was there between October 1979 and September, 1983. That was on the platform of Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN.
From VAnguard Newspaper of April 16, 2011.