Omoworare Babajide

Babajide Christopher Omoworare (born 31 October 1968) is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for the Osun East in April 2011, He ran on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) platform. He was re-elected into the Nigerian senate on 28 March 2015 under the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and was succeeded by Francis Adenigba Fadahunsi of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in June 2019.

Background Babajide Christopher Omoworare was born on 31 October 1968 in Ilesa, to a family from Ile-Ife, Ife Central Local Government Area of Osun State. His father was a principal of a grammar school. His mother's father Adesoji Aderemi was Governor of Western Region in the Nigerian First Republic. Omoworare attended Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, graduating with a bachelor's degree in law in 1989. He went on to the Nigeria Law School, Lagos, and was called to the Nigeria Bar as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1990. He also obtained a Masters in Law from the University of Lagos, Akoka. Omoworare started work with the Lagos law firm of Babalakin & Co. 1991. He became a notary public figure and left Babalakin and Co. in 1998, when he started his own law firm Omoworare & Co. and decided to enter politics.