*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.*
*The incumbent state First Lady is not yet confirmed from a primary record in this pass — TBC.*
Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu (2017–2023)#
Wife of Rotimi Akeredolu · 24 February 2017 — 27 December 2023
Initiative: Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN), founded 1997.
Married April 1981. Widowed in office by the governor's death on 27 December 2023.
Olukemi Mimiko (née Adeniyi) (2009–2017)#
Wife of Olusegun Mimiko · 24 February 2009 — 24 February 2017
Married 3 October 1990.
Olufunke Agagu (2003–2009)#
Wife of Olusegun Agagu · 29 May 2003 — 24 February 2009
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.