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Yayi's Real Name Is Sulaimon Ogunleye From Ekiti - Wale Adedayo

Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, the man Ogun State knows as Yayi, is not short of admirers. Without a doubt, as the All Progressives Congress candidate for the 2027 governorship race, he has the backing of President Bola Tinubu, Governor Dapo Abiodun, and the party's Ogun West caucus. However, away from the endorsements, a quieter paper trail is drawing attention, one that touches his business past and, by extension, questions his opponents have already raised about his identity.

Before politics, Yayi's own biography says he built a career as an accountant. He worked at The Guardian for twelve years, moved to the audit firm Olatunji Omoyeni & Co, rose to senior auditor, and then, in his words and in every profile written about him since, "established his own company, Sootem Nigeria Limited," where he served as managing director and chief executive, specialising in tax consultancy.

That is the official story. Corporate registry records tell a slightly different one. A search of Sootem Nigeria Limited, registration number RC 391165, shows the company was first incorporated on 21 September 2000 and then, on 27 February 2018, as Sootem Engineering Nigeria, with RC 1474389, in Egbeda, Lagos, at No 5, Ayo Oluyemi Crescent, Orelope Bus Stop. None of these list the business as tax consultancy at all. It is photography services and an engineering company. Its status on the register is simply marked "unknown."

Company records rarely explain themselves, so a mismatch like this can mean several things. Businesses in Nigeria sometimes register broadly and later narrow, or expand, what they actually do without updating every field on file. Data aggregators that pull from the Corporate Affairs Commission can also lag behind the current filing. None of that proves deception on its own. But when the founder of that company now sits in the Senate and wants to be governor, the gap between what he says the company does and what its own paperwork says deserves an answer, not a shrug.

Then there is the matter of the names on the file. The directors listed for the company are Ogunleye A. Ismaila, Olaleye A. Oluwadamilare, Ogunleye O. Temitope, and Ogunleye S. Olamilekan. The shareholders include Sulaiman Olamilekan Ogunleye, Oladayo Temitope Ogunleye, Akolawole Olaleye, and Adewale Ismaila Ogunleye. Read the initials on their own and the pattern is hard to miss: four people carrying the surname Ogunleye, one going by "S. Olamilekan," and a shareholder, Sulaiman Olamilekan Ogunleye, whose full name sits close enough to Senator Adeola's own, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, that the resemblance is not easy to explain away.

This is exactly the territory that has already spilt into open political combat. Wale Adedayo, a former chairman of Ijebu East Local Government, told Channels Television's Politics Today that Adeola was "originally Sulaimon Ogunleye" from Ekiti State, and dared him to prove his Ogun ancestry. Several outlets picked up the claim, and Adeola's camp dismissed the whole episode as a distraction; one ThisDay commentary called it a manufactured sideshow meant to avoid talking about policy.

Fairness matters here. Ogunleye is not a name invented for this controversy. Adeola's own biography names his father as Ayinde Adeola Ogunleye and his mother as Abeeni Olasunbo Ogunleye. Ogunleye already sits inside his documented family history, apart from any allegation about a hidden past. A company run by several people bearing that surname, alongside a director going by "S. Olamilekan," fits a family business staffed by relatives just as easily as it fits anything more elaborate. That does not settle the ancestry question Adedayo raised, and it does not close the gap between photography and tax consultancy either. It means the initials alone prove nothing, and that a fair reading has to hold both possibilities open until someone checks the Corporate Affairs Commission's own file directly, not a third-party aggregator.

What's left, once the speculation is set aside, is a plain fact: a company Adeola has spent years describing as his tax consultancy is, on paper, still registered as a photography business. That is not a smear; it is a public record, and it is one Ogun voters are entitled to ask him about directly. A man asking for the keys to a state's treasury should be able to explain why the company that built his professional reputation says something different about itself than he does. Until Adeola or his camp addresses the discrepancy in his own words, backed by the actual CAC file rather than a spokesperson's dismissal, the question will keep following him into the 2027 race, and it should. Voters don't need to assume the worst to decide they deserve a straight answer before they vote.

Source:

https://applesbite.com/what-is-senator-adeola-yayi-hiding-about-his-company-sootem/

Seems it’s not the president alone that have issue of identity crisis

Useless people with identity crisis.Thubder fire all of them including the Falconets

At this stage, Ogun might well do with a person not from Ogun. That state has had people from Ogun everywhere, president, vice president, governors, etc. No show. Maybe they need to try someone from elsewhere. Same goes with many other states in Nigeria. Nobody dey there.

As a politician, once people start spreading this kind of senseless propaganda about you, just know you’re the winner

E go hard to ever get honest politician for this country.

Naija politicians are indeed lucky bastards.

bestofnollywood:
Yayi's Real Name Is Sulaimon Ogunleye From Ekiti - Wale Adedayo


Source:

https://applesbite.com/what-is-senator-adeola-yayi-hiding-about-his-company-sootem/

Them go still come defend am and still install am as Governor

Normal normal for these tinupoo people. They love identity theft like kilode.

This is a knockout blow for Yayi. A homo and an identity thief.

Who doesn't know Suleiman/Sulaimon is Solomon?

I have never seen any prominent Ekiti personality that's Muslim. 98% of indigenes are Christians. You can prove me wrong

Before you say rubbish, remember the case of Evan Enwerem and Evans Enwerem .

If you are unsure, contact your uncles.

Really Good to know. But wait ooo...what about Tinubu?? What are his real names, date of birth/age, education details and the names of his class mates? U people should not bother about his origin, a group online already told us he is from Sierra Loene and that he is presently
attending to Nigeria's problems from his hospital bed in Macrons backyard in France...

What do I know self...na election day we dey wait for...

I cum in Peace!!!

Zico5:
I have never seen any prominent Ekiti personality that's Muslim. 98% of indigenes are Christians. You can prove me wrong

Then the remaining 2% are ghosts.

Clap for your self.

Na the day you decide to contest for an important elective position, you yourself go discover new things about yourself. LOL politics so crazy

Let him be Kalu Musa from Zamfara, it is his track record in politics that's endearing us to him. No Senator, I repeat, no Senator has performed as much as this man. That's good enough in my eyes.

When you guys are tired, you will begin issue-based campaign...tell us what you will do differently

RISQUE:
Them go still come defend am and still install am as Governor

Just the way some people still defended and installed the clown that went begging on his kneels inside Okija shrine.

This country has been turned into a joke, where anything goes

It is left for APC to quickly replace this phony man with Hunye, else Ladi Adebutu of PDP is the next governor of that state.

Michaelmercy:
Na the day you decide to contest for an important elective position, you yourself go discover new things about yourself. LOL politics so crazy

It is most likely you discover:

1. You are from Sudan just like Jibrin.
2. You are a product of a surrogate parent.
3. You are even a clone.

Nothing beats Naija politics and politicians.

Sulaimon from Ekiti is strange

I have more than two friends from Ekiti

They are all Christian

Another Amoda Ogunlere argument don start!

Ogun is moving from one criminal to another. It will be funny.

The issue is that they don't have identity crisis, they are just manipulators.
This guy represented Lagos West Senatorial district for 9years or more and suddenly he wants to be Ogun State Governor.
Surprisingly, the last time I was in Ado Odo Ota. The people there are crazily in love with this man. May be because he was building a major road for them before Dapo Abiodun allegedly stopped him.
The people of Ogun State seem to love him, so who am I to say otherwise? Even, though I am from Ogun State myself. I am from same region - Ogun West as he claims (I think he is from Yewa South and I am North - Aiyetoro).
I think he is okay but he is Tinubu's boy and people need to watch him carefully. We all know what Tinubu's legacy is all about.

Ekiti man will finally govern Ogun state!

Ogun state needs deliverance! That state has not produced a Governor since 1999.

The worst of humans always governing the state and now, they have Ekiti man on the line.

Caseless:
Who doesn't know Suleiman/Sulaimon is Solomon?

😂😂😂😂 Chimooooo! Heeey! Inukwa!

FREE CAMPAIGN FOR SENATOR ADEOLA S.OLAMILEKAN as the next OGUN STATE GOVERNOR

Aet001:
Sulaimon from Ekiti is strange

I have more than two friends from Ekiti

They are all Christian

Yes, Ekiti state is predominantly a Christian state .. but saying Sulaimon from Ekiti is strange, then you don't know what you are saying .... There are Muslims and traditionalists there too.

Which could fall into 70% Christians, and 30% Muslims and traditionalists......

the older name is not a 2026 invention
The claim that Adeola previously used Sulaiman/Sulaimon Ogunleye was already circulating publicly in 2017, almost a decade before the current 2026 controversy.

A November 2017 report explicitly stated that Adeola's birth name was Sulaiman Ogunleye, that he used that name while working at The Guardian, and that he subsequently changed it to Solomon Olamilekan Adeola. The report says the change was published in two national newspapers.


That's significant because it means the allegation predates the current Ogun governorship controversy by years.

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Aet001:
Sulaimon from Ekiti is strange

I have more than two friends from Ekiti

They are all Christian

This comedy story will break the record set by Kanu's Jubril El Sudani.
Almost everyone in Ekiti had a field day laughing since yesterday because it's very easy to find a citizen of Vatican who is a Sheik than to find a Suleiman from Ekiti.
Are these people brains now being corrupted with the Kanu virus?

oluwaseyi0:
Seems it’s not the president alone that have issue of identity crisis

identity crisis everywhere. if DNA can be done for the nation to ascertain genuine Nigerians it will be fine.