Posthumous Birthday -July 20
Senator Gbenga Aluko
He was born Daniel Olugbenga Aluko (20 July 1963 – 20 November 2021]He was a Nigerian politician.
He was born on 20 July 1963, to Professor Sam Aluko, a prominent Nigerian Economist from Ode-Ekiti, Ekiti State of Nigeria.
He attended Federal Government College, Ilorin, and then was admitted to the University of Benin, graduating in 1982 with a degree in Geography and Regional Planning.
He went on to the College of Energy and Petroleum Studies, Oxford, England for a Post Graduate Course in International Oil Trading and Pricing.
He was the Managing Director/CEO of HYGYNIX, Executive Director of Baseline Petroleum and Chemicals and Executive Chairman of Independent Strategists. He was appointed Special Assistant to the Minister of Transport and Aviation and General Manager of Nigeria Shippers’ CSearc from 1993 to 1995.
He was elected Senator for the Ekiti South Senatorial District of Ekiti State, Nigeria at the start of the Nigerian Fourth Republic, running on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999 – May 2003 and succeeded by
Bode Olowoporoku.
He died on November 20,2021.May his ebullient soul continue to rest in peace.