Former President of Adekunle Ajasin University Students' Union, Comrade Mayowa Adebiyi on Saturday declared his ambition to contest for the Akoko Southwest Contituency (II) seat, of the Ondo state House of Assembly, In the 2019 Election.
The former student leader and grassroot mobilizer made his aspiration public at the annual Ikun day celebration in Akoko, presided Over by His Royal Highness, Oba Adedoyin Olokunbola JP the Olukun of Ikun Akoko.
The celebration was massively participated as well wishers from the entire spread of Akoko region of Ondo State converged to support Ikun town, and the kabiyesi. The carnival-like atmosphere through-out the town also gave the opportunity for re-union among friends and relations in the town, resident in Nigeria and diaspora. Among the striking feature on the day of the celebration was the gathering of supporters and faithful’s of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC in support of Mr. Adebiyi Mayowa popularly called “Angel mayor”,
It will be recalled that Mr Adebiyi aspired for the ticket of the party in 2014, and after the primary election, he mobilized and gave support for the candidate elected by the party. Returning to contest for the same office in forthcoming party primaries and the February 2019 House of Assembly election, Adebiyi in his remarks and press statement to journalist reminded the community of his Time-honoured record in participating and contributing to the developed Ikun community, while also reiterating that he grew in the community and had his University education at Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko.
He added that, Upon graduating from the University, he could see that his people are still faced with a whole number of avoidable challenges, and that he provided supports for indigent students to advance their studies, and other supports for people in a number of other categories.
According to him, these made him to conclude that a political office of responsibility and authority will do more in reaching out to a larger number of the people in lifting their burdens. Hence, he chose the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) which later became the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the most serious gathering of progressives who can understand his passion for the people.
In the APC, Mayowa has continued to play visible and impactful roles in the development of the party locally, and contributing intellectually as required at the national level. He said he aspired four years ago for the position of the Member House of Assembly Akoko Southwest Constituency II, and he is here again with a deeper sense of commitment and political experience to use the same office and it's capacities to better the lot of our people.
Adebiyi said "it takes a deep and knowledgeable leader to organize his people in a way that wealth and opportunities in a community can be creatively managed to provide socially accessible wealth for everybody in the society, bringing comfort and wiping off anxieties, rather than everyone seeking personal wealth while the majority of the people wallow in abject poverty."
"There are a whole number of avoidable conditions which our people are faced with daily, and with adequate legislation, and equipping our people with the necessary positions of the laws made, and how they can use same to their advantage, they can break free of a whole number of economic and social repression. This fashion of creative leadership is what I have come to offer the people."
Adebiyi’s aspiration received supports and open endorsement from eminent personalities in the state, political office holders, party leaders. Prominent faces among those who gave endorsements to the aspirations of Mr Adebiyi at the event include:
Dr (Barr.) Oladoyin Odebowale, the Senior Special Assistant to Ondo State Governor on Special duties and strategies who said his relationship with Mr Adebiyi has been from the days they were in barricades, fight for, and to sustain sanity in the democracy Nigerians are enjoying today, he said he has seen the seriousness and commitment of Adebiyi to better life for the ordinary people in Nigeria through sacrifice and selflessness.
According to Odebowale, within the period he has served in the Ondo state government, Mr Adebiyi is among the few youths in Ondo State who have sacrificed their energy and time without giving monetary condition when the Government Special Task Force was going after petrol marketers who were putting heavy burdens on the masses and when certain cabal were fleecing the state, printing fake revenue ticket for Okada riders. He said he will always back the aspiration of genuine people like Adebiyi for political office because more of them are what Nigeria needs to attain all round sanity.
Mr Lawal Fatai the Special Assistant to the governor on Natural Resources appreciated the gesture of the people of Ikun to politics, he said their sincerity is exemplary and that the loops in their representation is what Adebiyi Mayowa has come to fill.
Hon Oloruntogbe Augustine, the chairman Akoko Southwest gave an open endorsement to Adebiyi, attributing his ambition to the will of God, adding that characters like Adebiyi are what is required at the parliament for quality representation.
Other notable leaders at the occasion are Hon Gboyega Adefarati the Honorable commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Gbenga Atiba,Dr Olayemi Bishop the President and Founder of West Africa University Benin Republic, Mr Ade Adeogun, Comrade Lawal Kolade the Southwest Zonal youth leader of APC, Mr Olutayo Babalayo the Ondo State youth leader of APC, Comrade Ayodele Oladimeji APC Assistant Publicity Secretary Ondo State, Comrade Emmanuel Akeredolu NAOSS National President , Eyinla Temitope SUG President AAUA among others.
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