*The office of State First Lady has no place in the 1999 Constitution — no section creates it, no law funds it. It is nevertheless the most consistently resourced unelected office in every Government House: a pet foundation, an office in the Governor's Lodge, seconded civil servants, and in most states a recurrent budget line. We record it for the same reason we record the federal office — because the money and the patronage are real even where the office is not.*
Olayemi Oyebanji (2022–present) — incumbent#
Wife of Biodun Oyebanji · 16 October 2022 — present
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi (2010–2022)#
Wife of Kayode Fayemi · 2010 — 2014; 2018 — 2022
Married 1989. A feminist author and co-founder of the African Women's Development Fund — the most professionally credentialed occupant of any state First Lady office in the Fourth Republic, and the author of the Ekiti Gender-Based Violence (Prohibition) Law, 2019.
Feyisetan Fayose (2003–2018)#
Wife of Ayodele Fayose · 2003 — 2006; 2014 — 2018
References
Sources#
- Government House protocol records and state First Lady foundation filings (Corporate Affairs Commission).
- INEC gubernatorial results sheets, 1999–2023, for the governors' tenure dates.
- Contemporaneous press: Vanguard, Punch, ThisDay, Daily Trust, Premium Times.