Mr. Abiola Oluwatobi Ayodele HND, BSc, FCA, attended Federal Polytechnic Ilaro, Ogun State where he graduated in 1991, with a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accountancy. He attended Babcock University, Illishan, Ogun State where he bagged his Bachelor of Science B.Sc. (Hons.) in Accounting. He also holds a Diploma in Laws from the Executive Business School, Ikeja (2014).

He is at present a Deputy Director with the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) with responsibility as Head, Tax Investigation (Lagos).

Abiola was first elected into the Council of the Institute in 2017. He has served the Institute in various Committees of Council.

He started his working career in the Firm of Mojibola Oluwa & Co (Chartered Accountants) in 1993 from where he joined the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) in 2005.

At the FIRS, prior to his position as the Head of Investigation (Lagos), he was Ag. Director (Technical). He has held the following positions: Head, Special Tax Audit; Chairman, Special Reconciliation and Review Committee (SRRC) with responsibility for the Southwest which include Lagos; FIRS representative on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME), Office of the Vice President; Head, Domestic Tax Payers, Tax Investigation and Special Enforcement Division amongst others.

Abiola is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN).

He is currently the Lead Doyen of the Joint Minds Club International, a club breeding Chartered Accountants for over thirty years, formed at the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro in June 1990.

Abiola believes in charity. He is a Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary International, fighting polio in every part of the world. He loves reading, travelling, meeting people, watching sports such as football and lawn tennis.

He is happily married and blessed with children