was a pioneer member of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), one of the earliest human rights organizations in Nigeria which was formed in 1989 to defend the rights of the people detained by the then federal military government. He was also a member of the National Consultative Forum (NCF), the first group in Nigeria to fight for the convocation of Sovereign National Conference (SNC) and whose progressive elements later formed the Campaign for Democracy (CD) in 1991. In 1992, he teamed up with Frederick Fasehun, Baba Omojola, and several other labour leaders and student activists to form the Movement for Social and Economic Justice (MOSEJ) and later became its Executive Director. Thereafter, he and few other Pan-Yoruba pro-democracy activists led by Fasehun conceived and formed the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), a Yoruba Nationalist Movement. He was also involved in the formation and activities of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), including US based United Democratic Front of Nigeria (UDFN), the Nigerian Pro-democracy Network (NPDN) and Radio save Nigeria, a short-wave pro-democracy radio station operated by the Nigerian Advocacy Group for Democracy, and Human Rights (NAGDHR) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. As a consequence of his involvement in pro-democracy activities in Nigeria, the administration of Ibrahim Babangida put Oladele under security watch and sometimes prevented him from traveling out of Nigeria. The same actions were repeated by the military dictatorship of Sani Abacha as he was arrested by the State Security Service (SSS) and routinely had his international passport seized. Nigeria’s Third Republic Politics Oladele was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Lagos State in the 90s. He contested in the primary elections to the Lagos State House of Assembly to represent Mushin Central I Constituency in Lagos State under the platform of SDP but due to the intrigues between the Primrose Group which Oladele belonged, and the rival Baba Kekere or “Ase” Group,, there were irreconcilable differences in the primary election as a result of which he was denied the ticket while a rival candidate from Ase faction was nominated by the Party for the December 1991 general elections. On June 12, 1993, he led a team of election observers that monitored the Presidential elections in Imo State, Nigeria for MKO Abiola, the Presidential candidate of the SDP. Nigerian House of Representatives Oladele served as Chairman of the House Committee on Financial Crimes during the