Olumide Osaigbovo Akpata is a Nigerian legal practitioner and politician.

He was a senior partner and the Head of the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group at Templars law firm in Nigeria until his resignation on 31 August 2023 to enable him to pursue partisan politics.

As a senior partner and Head of the Corporate & Commercial Practice Group of Templars. He has participated in some of the major groundbreaking transactions that have shaped commercial law practice in Nigeria and indeed the Nigerian economy.

In September 2023, he hosted the program “KingsWeek 2023” with the Old Boys Association, King’s College, Lagos

He became the first non-Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 28 years to be elected president of the Nigerian Bar Association in July 2020.

Akpata was born on October 7, 1972, at Edo State of Nigeria. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in law from University of Benin, Edo state in 1992 and was called to the bar in 1993.