The man behind Erelu Olusola Obada

So much has been said and written about former Osun State deputy governor, Erelu Olusola Obada, who is also the Minister of State for Defence. But not many people know about the man who makes her tick.  Expectedly her husband, Dr.Felix Babatunde Obada, is not a pushover.
Obada
From Arigidi Akoko, Ondo State, in September 2003, he pioneered the creation of the National eGovernment initiative as a Public-Private Partnership between the Federal Government and the Organised Private Sector. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of a biofuel company.
Dr Obada is the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Global Biofuels Limited. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD) in Materials Management from Pacific Western University, Los Angeles, USA.
He started his professional engineering career at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in 1977 and retired in 1995 as a Chief Engineer and Visiting Consultant in the Corporate Planning Department of the company.
He later became the pioneer Director-General and Chief Executive of the Materials Management Institute of Nigeria between 1996 and 1998 and served as a Consultant to the University of Surrey Space Centre, United Kingdom, between 2000 and 2003.
Among his accomplishments, Dr. Obada successfully engineered the entrance of Nigeria into the space industry by facilitating the design and launch of Nigeria’s first Satellite (NigeriaSat-1) working with the University of Surrey and the Federal Ministry of Science & Technology.
In September 2003, Dr. Obada again pioneered the creation of the National eGovernment initiative as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the Federal Government and the Organized Private Sector (OPS). He was appointed the Managing Director of the Company in March 2004. He resigned his appointment in February, 2006.
Following global outcry against Green House Gas emissions, Dr Obada again pioneered the entrance of Nigeria into the Renewable Energy industry, by facilitating the development of automotive biofuels production from agricultural wastes not used for food by humans or animals, working with such notable Institutions as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), The Nigerian Import-Export Bank (NEXIM); Institute of Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University; Ecowas Bank for Investment and Development (EBID); The African Biofuels and Renewable Energy Fund (ABREF), just to mention a few. His biofuels initiative has been acclaimed globally as capable of becoming a Nigerian-led job creation and poverty eradication solution.
Dr Obada is the Acting Director General and Chief Executive of the Green Energy Society of Nigeria (GESON), the umbrella body of renewable energy (wind, hydro, solar, Biofuels) producers of Nigeria. He is a member of the body recently constituted by Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr Rilwan Lukman to advise government on the specifications and operational guidelines for the implementation of the biofuels policy in Nigeria
Dr. Obada is a Fellow of many professional associations namely:
  • Fellow, Institute of Directors, UK and Nigeria
  • Fellow, International Biographical Association of Cambridge, UK.
  • Fellow, Material Management Institute of Nigeria.
  • Fellow Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management (F.Inst.Ps).
  • Fellow of the American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, NC, USA
He was listed in the 2002/2003 Contemporary Who is Who. Owing to his significant career achievement and contribution to society, he became an honorary member of the American Biographical Institute of Research Board of Advisors, 

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