Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu

Minister of Communications at Nigeria

Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu (born 23 March 1953) is the serving minister of Communications from Oyo State, Nigeria. He became the youngest Honourable member at age 26, to take the office of the Honourable Member of the Oyo State House of Assembly. In 1983, Barr Shittu was elected as a member of Oyo state, House Assembly in the second republic. In 1983, the military government took over from the civilian government and he retired into legal practice and writing profession. He became a member of National Political conference in 2005. In 2011, he withdrew his gubernatorial ambition for the incumbent governor of Oyo State, senator Abiola Ajimobi. Presently (2016), the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari appointed him as the minister of communication in Nigeria.