Henry Dele Alake
Dele Alake | |
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| Minister of Solid Minerals Development | |
| Assumed office 21 August 2023 | |
| President | Bola Tinubu |
| Preceded by | Olamilekan Adegbite |
| Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy | |
| In office 6 October 1999 – 29 May 2007 | |
| Governor | Bola Tinubu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Henry Dele Alake 6 October 1956 |
| Political party | All Progressive Congress |
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Henry Dele Alake ((ⓘ); born 6 October 1956) is a Nigerian journalist, activist and technocrat who is the current Nigerian minister of Solid Minerals. He is a former commissioner for Information and Strategy of Lagos State serving from 1999 to 2007.
Alake got involved in active politics in Nigeria as the communication advisor and confidant of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola - the winner of the annulled June 12 presidential election in Nigeria in 1993. In December 2014, Dele Alake resurfaced in national politics in Nigeria through his appointment as the director of Media and Communication of the Buhari Campaign Organisation to help Nigeria's former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari to victory in the presidential election in Nigeria in February 2015.