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As The Race For OGUN Governorship Hots Up
Senator Olamilekan Adeola, the Ogun West Senator who is popularly called Yayi is the governorship candidate to beat right now in Ogun State. He will definitely be running for governorship come 2027. And this is authoritative.
Although the next governorship election is still in 2027 all eyes are already on the Ogun West Senator as the best man for the job.
Although, he has not kicked off his campaign many people at the grassroot are already scheming for Yayi to be the next Governor.
He has covered so many grounds ahead of his competitors. He has Ogun West locked down. He is very active in Ogun Central. And in Ogun East, he is very visible. His popularity cuts across the 3 senatorial zones of the state.
He has embarked on mind-blowing empowerment programmes in the Yewa axis and he has been attending to the needs of those in other senatorial zones. He has been touching lives and giviving back to society for over 20 years.
City People gathered recently that this seasoned politician enjoys tremendous goodwill, built over time and he has a strong political machinery across the local government areas, and Senatorial districts. He also enjoys the confidence of a lot of the traditional rulers in Ogun State.
He has a firm grip of the politics of Ogun West where he hails from.
The permutation is that Ogun West has not produced a governor in the history of the state and so this time around, it must be the turn of Ogun West. One thing he has going for him is that he is an experienced politician. And he is also financially ready for the race. He is also very humble by nature.
The hottest gist right now in Ogun State is that, Yayi has been consulting widely across the state. And he is moving at the speed of light.
We can authoritatively reveal that, Yayi has been moving round the state to mobilise support, deploying resources and this has helped him gain support and traction.
Because of his generousity, a lot of groups and associations have come to like him with the result that right now he has won a lot of grassroot politicians to his side.
Yayi is from Yewa area. Although he tried to come out from Ogun State in 2014, he was alleged to have been blocked by the then Governor, Ibikunle Amosun who fielded another Yewa man. The same thing happened in 2017.
Who is this man Solomon Olamilekan Adeola? What is his pedigree? City People can tell you a lot about him. He is an extremely humble man with uncommon qualities. Born on August 10, 1969, he is an indegene of Ago-Isaga Pahayi, of Agbole Onibata, Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government, Ogun State. He has lived greater part of his life as a transformational agent, building bridges in the actualisation of lofty goals in business and politics.
Hon. Solomon Olamilekan Adeola is a complete Ogun indigene, born by Mr. Ayinde Adeola Ogunleye and Madam Abeeni Olasunbo Oluwaseun (nee Akinola), of Yewa South and Abeokuta North respectively.
His Yewa lineage is as current as in the 3rd paternal ancestral origin from the Agbole Onibata, Ago Ishaga-Pahayi in Ilaro. He is the third son of Ayinde Adeola Ogunleye, grandson to Ogundimu-Sangoloni, great grandson to Olege (third ancestral father). Ogundimu-Sangoloni married two wives, Atikekerewoba Alake and Alaba as first and second wives respectively. Alaba who hailed from Agbole Alapapo of Joga-Orile, Yewa North, gave birth to only one son; Ayinde Adeola Ogunleye.
A sizeable number of the evolved families are till today settled at Ago-Ishaga, Pahayi, in Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area, involved in primary occupations like farming, trading etc.
Also, his immediate maternal lineage is of a very rich Egba/Yewa origin. Being born by Madam Abeeni Olasunbo Oluwaseun of the highly respected Akinola family. His maternal Grandfather Pa. Akinola Julius Sodipo alias Baba Pupa of the Kilaso compound in Kemta Odutolu; *Abeokuta North Local Government area was widely respected as a much disciplined man, lived for over 115 years and was a successful farmer and trader with exceptional leadership qualities.
Adeola has grown through self development. He began his formal education at State Primary School in Alimosho, Lagos and proceeded to Community Grammar School Akowonjo, Lagos for his Secondary Education.
He subsequently proceeded to the prestigious Ondo State Polytechnic Owo, (now Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State), where he bagged a Higher National Diploma in Accounting (H.N.D). Out of personal zeal to excel, he got enrolled for his professional courses while in school, becoming a Chartered Accountant at a very young age. He is a distinguished Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) and a distinguished Member of Associate Chartered Accountants- ACA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).
Yayi started his professional career as a junior staff with The Guardian Newspapers Limited, worked for 12 years and rose to the position of the Accountant. He later, proceeded to Olatunji Omoyemi and Company, a Chartered Accounting Firm, where he led the audit team for several years. He was promoted to the position of a Senior Auditor.
He much later floated his own company, SOOTEM Nigeria Limited, where he is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. SOOTEM is specialises in Tax consultancy.
His political philosophy has been of a very rich fighting tradition for political, social and economic rights for the people. He strongly feels that people should have access to the basic necessities of life without hindrances. He believes in the enthronement of democratic tenet, principles of justice, rule of law, equity and civil liberty. He is also of the view that there should be entrenchment of true federalism in the Nigerian polity and supremacy of the people’s Constitution. His dream is that of a Nigeria where your tribe, religion and economic status will no further be an impediment to personal pursuit and growth in life.
With a determination to serve humanity, he contested keenly for the House of Assembly seat into Lagos State House of Assembly in 2003 and convincingly won the seat, represented Alimosho Constituency 02, with a two term ticket, under the auspices of Alliance for Democracy (AD), Action Congress (AC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and now All Progressives Congress (APC).
While at the Lagos State House of Assembly, he was a member of several select/Ad-hoc Committees.
He’s an intelligent and articulate Chartered Accountant. He served as the House Committee Chairman on Finance while at the Lagos State House of Assembly between 2005-2011.
He went on to be a member of the Federal House of Representatives from Lagos State, representing Alimosho Federal Constituency.
Despite being a first timer at the Federal House of Representatives, then, he was the House Committee Chairman on Public Accounts. These enviable achievement is based on his sterling qualities in time past in Lagos State.
Following his decision to join active politics, sometime at the dawn of the 4th Republic, Adeola was nominated and won the primaries of the then ruling Action Congress of Nigeria and was elected as a member to represent Alimosho State Constituency 2 at the Lagos State House of Assembly from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2007 to 2011.
He was elected to the Federal Legislature to represent Alimosho Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives in 2011.
And when the committees of the House were inaugurated by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal for members, he got position of the Chairman of the only constitutional committee, the Public Accounts Committee of the House. He got the post as a first time member of the house.
Verifiable historical evidence reveals that his mother’s paternal grandparents were from Itoku before arriving Kenta in the present day Abeokuta South Local Governemnt Area of Ogun State. his mother’s grandfather, Nofiu Odu gave birth to Julius Akinola Sodipo, the Madam Abeeni Olasunbo Oluwaseun (YAYI’s mother).
The famly’s farmland is in Asu, in Kobape Area of Obafemi Owode LGA, also in Ogun State. Asu is the District hub for 7 other settlements, while Kobape is sited within a Local Government Development Area Council. Madam Abeeni Olasunbo grew up at Ikija, also in Abeokuta South LGA.
Madam Olasunbo’s maternal root is in Olorunda, near Imala Village on the way to Ilaro. During her life time, Madam Abeeni Olasunbo was an active and prominent member of Egbe Alaro Cloth Dealers in the famous Itoku market, Abeokuta.
From the above narratives, Sen. Solomon Olamilekan Adeola is evidently rooted in both Yewa and Egba lineage of Ogun State, explained one of his political associates.
In April 2023, he took his decision to run for Ogun West Senatorial district and he won. Since then he has done so well by touching the lives of his constituents.
Senator Solomon Adeola who was then of APC, Lagos West, then the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance decided to answer the call of his people in Ogun West Senatorial District by heeding to the clarion call for him to run for the seat of Ogun West Senatorial District in the 2023 election.
At a mammoth rally in Ilaro the senator said he was heeding the clarion call of his people to return home to contribute to the development of his people as he has done for Lagos West as their senator in the last 6 years and counting.
The Senator disclosed that over the years he has been contributing to the development of Ogun West Senatorial district through personal efforts and facilitations of projects will increase in leaps and bounds if he is eventually elected as the Senator representing Ogun West.
