Dimeji Bankole, born 14 November 1969, is a Nigerian politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria. He was a businessman before being elected to the House of Representatives. Bankole's education commenced with attendance at the Baptist Boys High School, Abeokuta starting 1979; Albany College, London, England starting 1985; University of Reading, Reading, England starting 1989; University of Oxford's Officer Training College, Oxford, England in 1991; and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA in 2005.

Bankole was the Director of Freight Agencies Nigeria Limited from 1995 until 1998, Executive Director of Operations of West African Aluminium Products Limited from 1998 until 2003, and Director of ASAP Limited from 2000 until 2003.

POLITICAL CAREER
In 2003, Bankole was elected to the House of Representatives on the People's Democratic Party (PDP) ticket to represent the Abeokuta South, Federal Constituency of Ogun State. He was Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Finance and was also previously Chairman of the House Committee on Land Transport. Other committees he has sat on are the Committees on Defence, Internal Affairs and Banking, and Currency. Bankole was re-elected into Parliament in April 2007. He considers his legislative interests to be those related to defence and finance.

On his election, Bankole said "I am taking over the mantle of leadership at a very difficult time. But these are hard times, we need to build confidence again and assure the populace that we are still their representatives. I want an independent house that Nigerians will be proud of, this is my first task.