#ELECTION2019 AAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FELA DUROTOYE’S PROFILE
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Adetokunbo Oluwafeolami Durotoye Born (May 12,1971) in Ibadan, Oyo State is a nation builder, politician, business consultant, leadership expert, and motivational speaker. Fela is the president of the GEMSTONE Nation Builders Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization targeted at training youths towards transformation leadership and social change.
GEMSTONE is a Leadership Development Institution aimed at raising leaders of excellence and exemplary values who would be committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live in 2025
Fela holds a Bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in Computer Science & Economics along with a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where he wrote his MBA thesis on The Management of Change in Complex Organisations.He is also an Alumnus of Kennedy School of Government Executive Education program of the prestigious Harvard University, Boston (Massachusetts).
He is considered one of Nigeria’s leading strategists and business consultants with expertise in Culture Transformation, Service Leadership, Workforce Activation & Facilitating Strategic Retreats.
The list of corporate clients in the private sector that have been assisted by Fela DUROTOYE in their quest for phenomenal service leadership culture and corporate transformation management spread across different spheres of the economy.
Notable among the too many to mention transformation projects which Fela has championed is the largest urban renewal project in Nigeria’s history known as MUSHIN MAKEOVER where Fela mobilized over 2,000 volunteers to paint 296 houses across 7 streets of the Mushin suburb of Lagos, AT NO CHARGE to the owners and resident of the buildings.
In the course of the Mushin Makeover project, over 100 unemployed youths were trained by Berger Paints PLC in ‘The Art & Technique of Painting’. Today, they have become vibrant painters and are able to earn a living as a result of the Mushin Makeover project.
The 10 Values encapsulated in a PERSONAL CREED of ten lifestyle stated by him are:
MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT on everyone you meet and everywhere you go.BE A SOLUTION PROVIDER and not a part of the problem to be solved.BE A ROLE MODEL worthy of emulation.BE YOUR BEST IN ALL YOU DO particularly the things you are naturally good at.DO THE RIGHT THING AT ALL TIMES regardless of who is doing the wrong thing. VALUE TIME and make the best use of it. CARE & SHOW RESPECT TO ALL through your words and actions. CONSCIOUSLY BUILD A GREAT LEGACY starting now, today and every day. LIVE A LIFE OF INTEGRITY AND HONOR.MAKE YOUR FAMILY, NATION AND GOD PROUD.
Fela has won several National and International awards for his leadership development and nation building activities including the prestigious Nigerian Achievers Award in 2009. In recognition of his contributions to the field of Human Resource Consulting, Fela was honoured with the “Excellence in Human Resource Consulting Award” by NIPRO, a body of Nigerian Professionals based in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, at their global convention in Miami, Florida in December 2004.
Others awards include Nigerian Achievers Award Institute (NAAI), Fly Network Africa Integrity Award, City People Young Male Achievers Award and the prestigious Role Model Award given by the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC).
In February 2018, Fela Durotoye announced his aspiration to contest as a Presidential Candidate in the 2019 General Elections on the platform of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) party.
Fela is married to Tara, a renowned beauty entrepreneur and Chief Executive Officer of the House of Tara and together they have 3 sons: Mobolurin, Demilade & Morolaoluwa.
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