Ogun West May Miss It Again If  – Akinwande

Eniola Olayemi

Ogun West development advocate, Engr. Gbenga Akinwande, on Saturday raised the alarm that the zone may slide into decade’s long political irrelevance if leaders failed to take urgent step to arrest another looming defeat in the forthcoming governorship and state House of Assembly elections in the state.

Akinwande who is the President of Gbenga Akinwande Foundation, said the fierce contest in the upcoming governorship election in Ogun state among the quartet of Gboyega Nasir Isiaka of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Dapo Abiodun – All Progressives Congress(APC), Abdulkabir Adekunle Akinlade of the Allied People’s Movement (APM) and Buruji Kashamu/Ladi Adebutu of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) may render Ogun west both politically irrelevant and economically impotent for another three generations if the district loses like it did in 2011.

The Philanthropist who made this known in an interaction with reporters, said though all permutations in respect of March 9 polls  favour Ogun west, but the loggerheads between the Gboyega Nasir Isiaka (GNI) and Adekunle  Akinlade (Triple A) at the moment,  poses  greatest threat to the survival of Yewa and Awori as ethnic nationalities in Nigeria.

He lamented that what is happening in 2019 is not different from what had happened in 1979 and 2011 gubernatorial elections, where the zone were divided by producing multiple candidates for the gubernatorial elections and thereby lost to Ijebu man and Egba man respectively.

Akinwande called on the traditional rulers in Ogun west to call a quick emergency meeting and summon both Triple A and GNI to a meeting and beg both of them to show sympathy to the survival of Yewa and Awori as ethnic nationalities in the Nigeria state.