16 Facts About Festus Akinbusoye

Festus Kehinde Akinbusoye was born on June 1978 and is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2021 to 2024.

Festus Akinbusoye was the first black Briton to serve as a police and crime commissioner.

Festus Akinbusoye lost the by-election, coming in second place to the Labour candidate Alistair Strathern.

Festus Akinbusoye studied at St Paul's Way School, and the City of Westminster College.

Festus Akinbusoye later studied at the London College of Printing and Distributive Trades at the University of the Arts London and read for a master's degree in international studies and diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Festus Akinbusoye played basketball at university, and played professionally in what was then called the Budweiser British Basketball League.

Festus Akinbusoye has a collection of 40 Air Jordan basketball trainers.

Festus Akinbusoye stood as a Conservative candidate in the West Ham constituency in the 2015 United Kingdom general election, a safe seat for the Labour Party, where he came second to the Labour candidate Lyn Brown.

Festus Akinbusoye served as chairman of Milton Keynes Conservatives from 2018 to 2021, and on 15 June 2023, Festus Akinbusoye was selected as the Conservative parliamentary candidate to contest the 2023 Mid Bedfordshire by-election.

Rigby asked about his reaction to the David Carrick case, and Festus Akinbusoye said that "the public quite rightly expect there to be no bad apples" in British policing.

Festus Akinbusoye had alleged in a post that a member of the public had misused public funds.

Festus Akinbusoye said he "totally rejects and refutes the findings and will be responding fully as part of the formal process in due course".

Festus Akinbusoye remarked of his tenure as PCC that he was "really proud of what has been done in three years".

Festus Akinbusoye was unsuccessful in the resulting contest, losing to Labour candidate John Tizard.

Festus Akinbusoye revealed that he is a "single father who has raised young children over a decade into very successful young adults, endured the teenage years with some remnant of sanity", and is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Festus Akinbusoye has stated that he owes his success in business to the help he received from The Prince's Trust aged 22 while growing up in East London.