By Secrets Reporters
Every fortune has an address and the honest ones sit on letterheads and in the asset declaration forms of the Code of Conduct Bureau. The others surface years later, in the deed books of foreign counties, bearing names their owners hoped no one would ever read.
In the deed books of Cobb County, Georgia, one such address has surfaced as seen by SecretsReporters. It belongs to Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, the Nigerian senator called Yayi, the chartered accountant who built his political brand on fiscal discipline, the man who once interrogated ministries over audit queries and now holds the keys to Nigeria’s federal budget. In August 2017, while drawing the pay of a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he bought a mansion in Smyrna, Georgia, for $793,000.
The deed that talks
SecretsReporters’ findings reveal that the grant deed, recorded on August 22, 2017 as document 201720331 in Book 15470 of the Cobb County records, names Solomon O Adeola as grantee of 4112 Onslow Pl SE, Smyrna, Georgia 30080. The sellers were Philip C and Lisa M Socoloff. The transaction price was $793,000, about N289 million at 2017 rates. The deed records no mortgage amount against the purchase, which means he bought it cash in full.
The property is no modest dwelling. It is a 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom residence of 7,262 square feet, built in 2005, set in the Kensington Green subdivision. The county marks it owner-occupied. Its current estimated value is $1,295,748, which means the mansion has gained roughly $500,000 since the senator bought it. At current exchange rates, the $1.3 million tag translates to close to two billion naira. The 2026 property tax bill alone is $16,342.
The identity is locked in the residents history. Alongside Solomon O Adeola, the property records list Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, Temitope Oladayo Adeola and Simisolaoluwa Ade-ola. Public biographies give the senator’s full name as Solomon Olamilekan Adeola and name his wife as Temitope Adeola. The mansion is a family seat.
The arithmetic that beggars the question
Adeola did not buy this house as a private man. He bought it in August 2017, two years into his first term as Senator for Lagos West, a seat he won in 2015 and held until 2023. He paid $793,000, and the deed shows no mortgage. For a public officer on a senator’s salary and allowances, a near $800,000 cash purchase of foreign real estate is the kind of arithmetic that beggars the question. Where did the money come from? What income, declared or otherwise, carried a three-quarter-million-dollar house across the Atlantic?
The watchdog’s own book
Adeola’s political identity is the accountant as moral policeman. From 2011 to 2015, he chaired the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, the committee that summoned ministers and agency heads to answer audit queries, the committee that performed fiscal discipline for the cameras. He moved to the Senate and chaired the Finance Committee. He now chairs the Appropriation Committee, the most powerful money committee in the National Assembly, the committee through which every naira of the federal budget passes.
Senator Adeola who audited Nigeria now has an American mansion whose purchase no Nigerian record explains. The hunter of unretired advances and missing vouchers kept his own biggest voucher out of sight.
The man who wants Ogun
Adeola is the consensus governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2027 Ogun State election. Governor Dapo Abiodun unveiled him at a strategic caucus meeting in Abeokuta in April 2026, before former governors, senators and party chieftains, as the man to break the jinx of Ogun West never producing a governor. The party later reaffirmed him, named Kudirat Adegunwa-Balogun as his running mate and said both names had gone to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
He campaigns as the fiscal disciplinarian, the accountant who will manage Ogun’s resources with rigour. Yet the $793,000 mansion he bought as a sitting senator has never featured in his public story and people of Ogun are being asked to hand their treasury to a man whose own treasury has an American wing.
The Fifth Schedule to the Constitution, the Code of Conduct for Public Officers, requires every public officer to declare all assets and liabilities. Failure to declare, or a false declaration, is a breach triable by the Code of Conduct Tribunal, which can remove the officer, disqualify him from public office and order forfeiture of the asset. The records of the Code of Conduct Bureau will show whether the Smyrna mansion was declared.
