Ijero-Ekiti commends Bamidele for bringing constituency projects to community
The people of Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti State, have commended Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (MOB) for his various interventions in providing unprecedented constituency projects to the people of the community.
Niyi Babade, a political analyst, who hails from Ekiti gave the commendation on behalf of indigenes of the community.
“When few years ago I organized a befitting welcome ceremony for the distinguished Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (MOB) with pomp and pageantry and the sound of 21 gun salute by the local hunters rendered the air as he gallantly entered Ijero Kingdom. l knew right there and then that he was a man with a heart of gold, especially after introducing him to some of our political leaders in the town like Pa Beauty and my late uncle, Chief Femi Oyebanjo (the Aro of Idao), as they both unanimously made pleasant comments about the senator.”
Babade said that in the late Chief Femi Oyebanjo’s house, elders of the community thanked him for “bringing him (Bamidele) to be introduced to us in person; we have been longing to meet him since we have been enjoying and benefiting from his largesse long before now. He has been single-handedly maintaining and sustaining our party’s office when the opposition party was in power in the state. We love him.”
Babade noted that today, the Iyin-Ekiti-born Senate leader has not relented or reneged on his promise to make Ijero-Ekiti his second home.
“Little wonder, Ijero Kingdom, including other towns under the local government, area, are currently enjoying unprecedented development and upgrading of its township roads and some suburbs, despite the fact that the senator never enjoyed overwhelming votes from the town due to the Yoruba parlance that says “Omo eni ko le sedi bebere ka wa fi ileke si Idi Omo elo miran,” Babade added.
According to Babade: “Opeyemi has promised to build and equip an ICU center for the state hospital in Ijero, as well as donate an ambulance to the College of Health in the town.
“Only a man who has the fear of God and compassion for humanity can do this. The distinguished senator has borrowed a trending phrase from his political leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria: ‘Elo fokan bale’ you ain’t seeing nothing yet as many developmental projects and better life await the people of his constituency and Ekiti State.”