Between February 2001 and May 2003, he served as Minister of Education. He chaired the preparation of the National Youth Policy and the blueprint of the National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP). Borishade was appointed senior special assistant to President Obasanjo in May 1999, initiating and convening the first Youth Forum in Abuja.
The PDM struggled to restore democracy to Nigeria and became a principal partner in the formation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) created by the Babangida Military Administration.īorishade served as director of research and planning for the defunct SDP Coordinator (Administration) of M.K.O Abiola's campaign director of administration, strategy, and planning for the Obasanjo Campaign Organization in 1999 and coordinator of the Election Administration and Management Unit of the Obasanjo/ Atiku Campaign Organization in 2003.
This later birthed the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), a political association that has remained dominant in Nigerian politics. He joined the Yar'adua's movement called “the Peoples Front” together with other politicians such as Atiku Abubakar, Abdullahi Aliyu Sumaila, Abubakar Koko, Dapo Sarumi, Yomi Edu, Bola Tinubu, Professor Ango Abdullahi, Sabo Bakin Zuwo and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. īorishade supported General Shehu Musa Yar’adua's efforts towards crafting bridges of understanding among the country's ethnic nationalities as a prerequisite for development. In 1988 Borishade was elected as a Member of the Constituent Assembly to review the 1979 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.He advocated for the creation of the Nigeria Energy Commission and the Environmental Protection Commission that later created the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (FEPA), a precursor to the present Ministry of Environment. He was a representative of the congregation at the University Senate, and also Chairman of Project Advisory Committee and University Works and Maintenance Service Monitoring Committee. He served as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Regional Centre for Training in Aerospace Survey. He became an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at OAU in 1985. He was a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, American Nuclear Society, and the Science Association of Nigeria. īorishade was a registered engineer and a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, United Kingdom. He underwent further training in the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna in 1982. He obtained a certificate in Nuclear Power Development. In 1975, Borishade was selected to train at the Nuclear and Power Engineering Station at Texas A&M University. He obtained his PhD in 1975, and returned to Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), where he launched the Electrical Power Systems degree program and the University of Ife Consultancy Unit, both in the Faculty of Technology. In 1972, he earned a Commonwealth Scholarship for a doctorate degree in high-voltage engineering at Victoria University.
After graduation, he was hired as a graduate assistant there. In 1971, he graduated from the University of Ife, with First Class Honors in electrical engineering. Andrews Primary School, Usi Ekiti, and Doherty Memorial Grammar School, Ijero Ekiti.
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