By Charles Ayodele
The Publicity Secretary, Ekiti Young Professionals, Ogbeni Joshua Adojutelegan, and his team have called on the leadership of the All Progressives Congress as well as the elected members of tenth National Assembly to rally round Hon Richard Olufemi Bamisile, who was re-elected as a member of House of Representatives for the second term to represent the people of Ekiti South Federal Constituency 11, to ensure his emergence as Deputy Speaker of the green Chamber.
The body made this appeal while addressing journalists at the Secretariat of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ado-Ekiti, the State capital.
According to Adojutelegan, “Our belief is that the legislature must be led by men of character, impeccable antecedents and unbroken experience in managing human resources at a very high level”.
The group further stressed that, being Speaker of the Ekiti State third Assembly, that his regime was the most vibrant legislature the State ever had since its creation, going by the divergent political activism and ideologies of the equal 13-13 membership of The Assembly from PDP and the then AC.
In the words of the Publicity Secretary of the group, “BAFEM has never limited his philanthropic gesture to the people of the State alone, he empowered widows, graded rural roads, organised free Jamb forms and free coaching classes, supported the citizens during the Covid 19 pandemic, got employment for 42 youth at the Federal level, while he appointed 35 Senior Special Assistants as part of his mentoring programme.
“We strongly advocate for the emergence of Hon Olufemi Bamisile as Deputy Speaker of the 10th National Assembly. We make bold to say that Hon Bamisile possesses the requisite competence, capacity, and character to provide the needed stability for the House.
“As a former Speaker of the House of Assembly and a returning member of the House of Reps. Hon Richard Olufemi Bamisile is experienced and imbued with a great level of emotional intelligence needed to provide leadership and stability for the House of Representatives.
The group confirmed that Rt. (Hon) Richard Olufemi Bamisile (BAFEM) is a good team player, dependable, with native intelligence of the contemporary Ekiti politics with a thorough understanding of the political dynamics of the country as well as much efforts to address the socio-cultural, political and economic issues of the nation.
Noting that BAFEM, being the Chairman House committee on Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), brought a lot of dividends of democracy to Ekiti state, South-western states and Nigeria at large while he never failed in the mandate of fixing Nigerian roads despite poor funding. Adojutelegan explained.
Ekiti Young Professionals is a group of non-partisan and upwardly mobile men and women, home-based and in the diaspora, who are making exploits in various chosen careers, well informed and concerned with the well-being and shared prosperity of Ekiti state and Nigeria as a whole. Devoid of any influence, they make critical positions on economic, environmental, education, and political matters.
