Adeola’s Midterm Scorecard: Key Lawmaking Accomplishments Redefined

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Olanrewaju Fatunmbi

Last week, the 10th National Assembly marked its midterm milestone, highlighting achievements and challenges in Nigeria’s democratic journey. Senator Olamilekan Solomon Adeola (aka Yayi) representing Ogun West Senatorial District, has not done anything less, giving account of his stewardship to his constituents. For the return of a good turn, midterm of a four-year tenure is an auspicious time to do a stock-taking. Stock-taking is an essential aspect of good governance, promoting transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement. By reflecting on past actions and decisions, one can assess the effectiveness of his policies and programmes, identify areas for improvement and use the lessons learned to shape future initiatives.
The feedback from Adeola’s scorecard has been quite commendable, motivating and inspiring. Since his re-ascendancy to the upper chamber on June 13, 2023, exactly two years ago, his major concern has been the pursuit of impactful representation to transform socio-economic well-being of his Ogun West people. As already well known, Yayi has a long and active legislative career spanning over two decades at both state and federal levels. In the last two years, which primarily cover his current tenure in the 10th National Assembly, his law-making accomplishments have focused on several key areas, particularly given his influential role as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
With that vantage position, he plays a central role budgeting process, scrutinizing the national budget proposed by the executive, conducting budget defense sessions with Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), and overseeing the eventual passage of the Appropriation Bill. His leadership in this committee has been critical in shaping Nigeria’s fiscal policies, ensuring budget processes align with government goals, and monitoring revenue generation for accountability. He is instrumental in ensuring timely passage of the national budget, even when faced with delays due to tax reform deliberations.
Senator Adeola’s active sponsorship of bills and his crucial leadership role in the Appropriations Committee underscore his continued involvement and impact in the nation’s law-making process within the last two years. Notable among the bills he has sponsored are Nigerian Railway Corporation Act (Amendment) Bill (SB 09), Federal College of Geological and Cement Studies (Establishment) Bill (SB 109), Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) Act (Amendment) Bill (SB 265), National Institute for Border Studies, Imeko, Ogun State (Establishment) Bill (SB 323) and the Bill seeking the conversion of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, to Federal university of Technology.
Other than law-making, the result of his interventions and accomplishments in such critical areas like roads, education, healthcare delivery, human capital development, youth and women empowerment remains yet unequalled and unparalleled.
Over the past two years of his representation, assessment record shows that Senator Yayi has executed over 250 constituency projects, completed or ongoing within Ogun West Senatorial District. This figure excludes those he facilitated in other parts of Ogun State. He has also empowered more than 40,000 residents within the district. That is unprecedented. It’s a representation redefined.
These projects span various sectors, reflecting a comprehensive approach to constituency development. The road infrastructure projects he has facilitated include, among others, Ilara/Ijoun/Oja Odan/Ifonyintedo/Ilashe road ( over 100), Ilashe-Okere Township Road in Ipokia Local Government, Sabo-Babalawo Road in Imeko-Afon Local Government,
Idogo-Ipaja Road in Yewa South Local Government, Abeokuta-Iboro-Ilaro Road (rehabilitation), Construction of Kemta-Idi Aba Estate inner road in Abeokuta South LGA (Ogun Central). indicating reach beyond Ogun West.
This is in addition to over 15 road projects completed and nine ongoing in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area alone. Specific township roads like Afon Township Road, Area 5 to Immigration Junction Road, Aitedo Road Ilara, Igbo Ifa Road, Idofa Township Road (all in Imeko-Afon LGA) are all to Adeola’s credit
His rural electrification project involves provision and energization of over 100 units of 500KVA electric transformers and 5,000 solar street lights to communities across Ogun West.
To facilitate community engagement, he has constructed several town halls and mini stadia which serve as hubs for community activities. In the same way, he has built Police Stations at strategic places within the district e.g. Iwoye-Ketu Police Station, Police Post at Pahayi, Ilaro to enhance community security.
Provision of accessible education occupies a prime of place in Adeola’s agenda. To realize that objective, he has constructed over 150 new classrooms in primary and secondary schools across 25 locations. Examples include 2 blocks of 16 classrooms at Army Day Secondary School, Owode, and Iwoye Area Community High School.
This has been complemented with the establishment of well-equipped Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) centres to enhance computer literacy e.g. at Muslim Progressive High School, Oke Odan, and School of Nursing, Ilaro).
He has also been instrumental in facilitating the commissioning of projects, mostly TETFUND-sponsored at federal tertiary institutions in Ogun Central, like Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) in Ogun East, and Federal College of Education (FCE), Osiele, Abeokuta, Ogun Central.
For the healthcare delivery, Adeola’s imprimatur could be boldly seen in the number of Primary Healthcare centres he has facilitated, including the General Hospital, Imeko; Okeagbede-Moriwi PHC, Atapele PHC; Ilara PHC, often equipped with ambulance. Added to all these is the establishment of 2 Intensive Care Units (ICUs) at State Hospitals in Ilaro and Ota and provision of essential drugs and medical equipment, and solar mini-grids for hospitals.
It goes without saying that his empowerment items like mini-buses, tricycles, motorcycles, welding machines, deep freezers, generators, vulcanizing machines, grinding machines, sewing machines, hair dressing kits, make-up kits, catering equipment and cash grants for entrepreneurship have changed the fortune of thousands of beneficiaries.
Adeola’s desire to enhance human capital development has seen him established a board responsible for yearly awards of cash grants (N100,000-N200,000) for bursary and scholarship beneficiaries.
These extensive projects are often cited by his supporters as evidence of his effective representation and commitment to the development of his constituents, contributing to the clamor for his governorship aspiration.
Just recently, Anglican Bishop of Yewa Diocese, Rt. Reverend Michael Oluwarohunbi made a generous review of his antecedents in the past two years and unequivocally declared that the people of Ogun West have not had it so good since the creation of the state on February 3, 1976.
He said: “Your strides are not just developmental but transformational. You have restored the hope of our people that indeed, you are God sent to liberate us from our past state of neglect and underdevelopment.
“Yayi is evidenced of a broken siege through his intervention projects in Yewaland. The coming of Senator Yayi into the political space of Ogun West and Ogun State at large may be viewed as many of those things that happened in politics, but you will understand that it is evidenced of answered prayer and a curse broken by his uncommon human touch to Yewaland”, the Bishop stated.
The Bishop is not alone in his eloquent testimony to the performance of Adeola and his commendation. A
socio-political group, Ogun West Initiative, which has been following his activities since his election into the Senate, also corroborating the Bishop’s assessment, described Yayi’s mid-term performance as “unprecedented and transformative” in the history of the senatorial district.
The group, through its convener, Mr. Bolaji Adeniji, applauded Senator Adeola for adopting a multi-dimensional strategy that had resulted in massive infrastructural development, robust legislative performance, and large-scale empowerment schemes that had positively impacted lives across the five local governments (Imeko-Afon, Ado-Odo/Ota, Ipokia, Yewa North and Yewa South) in Ogun West.
His words: “In just two years, YAYI has delivered over 250 projects cutting across education, healthcare, infrastructure, agriculture, and human capital development.
“This includes classrooms, libraries, ICT centres, primary healthcare facilities, roads, boreholes, transformers, and streetlights, among others.
He recalled the senator’s flagship Mega Empowerment Programmes which had directly benefitted over 40,000 constituents, while more than 5,000 students received bursaries and scholarships.
“Senator Adeola’s interventions have cut across all demographics-students, farmers, traders, artisans, and the elderly. From cash grants and start-up kits to school buses and ambulances, his approach has been holistic and impactful,” he added.
The latest in the series of his intervention projects is the solar street lights donated to TASUED to enhance campus safety. Tagged “Light Up TASUED,” this initiative aims to improve campus security, foster a safer academic environment, and support students’ well-being, particularly during nighttime study hours. The gesture reflects Senator Adeola’s unwavering dedication to delivering the dividends of democracy-especially to the younger generation who represent the future of the state and nation.

*Fatunmbi writes from Okeagbede, in Imeko-Afon LGA of Ogun State.

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The Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia, Mrs Francia Márquez, on Saturday arrived the nation’s capital, Abuja on a three-day official visit to Nigeria.

Accompanied by her spouse, Mr Rafael Yerney Pinillo Ocoró, the Colombian Vice-President was received on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, by the Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Nnaji; his Women Affairs counterpart, Hon. Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim; Minister of State, FCT, Dr. Mariya Mahmud Bunkure, Director General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mrs. Zubaida Umar and other senior government officials.

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The Colombian Vice-President is accompanied on the visit by cabinet ministers, top government officials and business sector leaders who are set to engage their Nigerian counterparts in discussions around key areas aimed at strengthening ties between both countries.

A key highlight of the visit is the signing of Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) in strategic areas of the economy, including women empowerment, trade, aviation, manufacturing, agriculture and culture, among others.

The visit will also feature a plenary session to be graced by both Mrs Marqueez and her Nigerian counterpart, Kashim Shettima and the Nigeria-Colombia Business Forum; government to government bilateral meetings; side events, including high-level business sector meetings hosted by the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, as well as a summit on Artificial Intelligence.

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* To hold bilateral meeting, sign MoU on economy with his Nigerian counterpart Deji Elumoye in Abuja The Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia, Mrs Francia Márquez, on Saturday arrived
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Adebayo: What Tinubu Seeks Abroad Exists in SDP Manifestoes

Former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 general election, Prince Adewale Adebayo, in this interview with select journalists, says President Bola Tinubu’s trip to Brazil is a waste of the country’s resources, as what he is seeking exists in SDP’s manifestoes

In faraway Brazil, President Bola Tinubu declared that the reforms his administration have carried out are tough, but like a bitter medicine, once the fever is gone, you would know that the cure was worth it. What do you make of that statement from President Tinubu?

Well, I’m happy that the president is going around the world. I’m happy that he went to Brazil, because if ever his policy life is going to change, we will see whether he changes from Brazil. His going to Brazil is the equivalent of Saul becoming Paul, because in Brazil what the Workers’ Party did to become what they are today and the president was giddy about it; he even posed the question what do they have that we don’t have? And I have the answer. What they have is good leadership and that’s what we don’t have yet. What they have is a poverty reduction manifesto and set of programmes and policies. If you look at Bolsa Familia, which reduced poverty by 27 per cent in Brazil in four years under President Lula da Silva’s government, it is the opposite of ‘subsidy is gone’ that increased poverty exponentially. If you look at the way Petrobras is run compared to the way the president has been running the NNPCL, they are polar opposites. If you look at where Brazil gets its strength from, Brazil is the third largest economy in the Americas. In fact, by purchasing power parity, Brazil is next to the USA.

So, they have a bit of a mixed economy. The government is participating; the private sector is participating. They have indigenous industries, arising from agriculture, coffee, soybeans and all of that. Then they have the high end with aeronautics, defence and all of that. So, the same country that makes a lot of money producing aircraft like Embraer and other companies is making more money just producing plain soybeans. So, the economic policy of President Tinubu is opposite to the one that has succeeded in Brazil. I’m happy that he’s there because by going there, he will see how wrongheaded his own policies are. On the other hand, I am not happy that he went there to spend all that money when the ruler is here. He could have spoken to me. He could have looked at the Social Democratic Party manifesto. He used to be a member of the SDP in good old days. So, why are you leaving the Brazilian type of manifesto which is available in Nigeria and then you are going to Brazil as a tourist to be in awe of the majesty of Brazil and the Brazilian economy as if it is by magic? It is by policy.

Look at them. The Central Bank of Brazil is crying because of 4.5 per cent inflation. We are celebrating 22 per cent inflation, which in reality is 13 per cent. Brazil says it should not be at three per cent. You look at it clearly; Brazil pays people money to go to school. If you study Posta Familiar very well, a family that puts their children in school, does immunization, does all of that, is guaranteed not to see poverty. And Brazil is struggling to make sure that the wealth that it has is better distributed. So, they acknowledged the fact that the problem of Brazil is not about making more money, it is about allocating efficiency that has social consideration. That is to say they want to distribute their wealth in a better way to make everybody more productive. Brazil is having five per cent unemployment. We are having over 30 or 40 per cent, depending on how you look at the statistics. So, how can you now say, I am now in Brazil as a tourist, how did they make it here? So, it is like the person who does not keep good health, who does not take a shower, who does not clean the environment, he looks at his neighbour’s house and says, why do you have to clean? Why is your dress so white? Why are all your children healthy? Just adopt that healthy policy. It is a good discussion and it is a discussion I am willing to have with the president, partisanship aside. You can stay in the government and I stay where I am in the SDP, but we can still have this conversation as to how Brazil managed it because everything that happened to Brazil happened to us.

Agreed that the reforms are the bitter pill that signposts good health when the medicine starts working; in the last two years or more of this government in power, we have seen top policies that have been made, is the medicine working or are we taking malaria medication for typhoid or cancer? Are the realities and the promises or the hopes that are being preached in tandem? What exactly do you think is going on?

Okay, let me tell you, there is a doctor, Bola Tinubu, who has an APP hospital, and he says he treats malaria patients. So, he makes sure the fever is gone. What does he do? If you take a patient there, he gives the patient rat poison. So, the patient would die, and the fever would die with the patient. That’s one way that he cures his own patients. If he has plenty of patients and 15 of them die, he will say I have only five fever patients left. That is not the best way to cure a patient. It’s not every medicine that is going to cure a fever, that’s number one. Number two, he went to the wrong country. He should have gone to Argentina, because his own policy is closer to the one done in Argentina, not the one being done in Brazil. Thirdly, the problem is not breaking the egg. You can ask women, how do you make an omelet? The easiest part is breaking the egg. You break the egg, and all the yolk and the white of the egg spills to the ground. If you break the egg, at that time you have no frying pan; you have not even lit the fire. So how are you going to make the omelet? The problem is that half of our eggs are broken, and nobody has had breakfast. You keep breaking the egg, you don’t see the omelet.

Prince, you are saying that this government is not doing the right thing. Maybe, they’ve put in place the right policies, but they are not implementing them the right way, is that what you are saying?

I am not just saying that President Tinubu’s government is not doing the right thing. There are some governments that don’t do the right thing. But I’m saying that they are not just doing the right thing, they are actively doing the bad thing. And the reason I’m able to say that, is that the president may disagree with the policy of the SDP. We raised the issue of farewell to poverty and insecurity, and we said you have to make social investment. And we said that you can grow your GDP by making social investments. He is trying to grow his own GDP by making social divestment and hoping that Brazilians, because I heard him calling Petrobras to come here, he is hoping that Brazilians, other people who have made social investments at home, and have redeveloped that social investment, are going to bring their own money to come and make foreign investment here. The policy is wrong. The third reason why I think the policy is wrong is that after criticizing the SDP or ignoring the SDP manifesto here, he is praising Brazil. Brazil is the benchmark for today’s discussion. I agree with the Channel TV. You can organize a session where you bring Wale Edun, you bring all the economic team of the APC, and you bring me, and you bring the SDP. We can have a debate for two hours in your session; if they can pay half, we can pay half.

And let us put these policies and explain them to Nigerian people. They are letting their own policies go wrong in five ways. One, they are behaving as if poverty can increase, and economic growth can also increase at the same time. It can’t happen. The journey of poverty must be inversely correlated with the journey of economic growth. So, if you grow your economy, poverty must be reduced. How do you reduce poverty? There are three ways to reduce poverty. One, you do immediate employment for people. You have to configure most of your policies to include employment. Second, you do social investment such as housing, health care, education, infrastructure and basic infrastructure for people. That is why I said he should go and study Bolsa Familia; that is the programme that saves Brazil. Thirdly, you must have systems in place for macroeconomic management, and you cannot cheat in that kind of examination. You must immediately tell the Governor of the Central Bank, gentlemen, meet the Minister of Finance, by the middle of my term, I want inflation to be single-digit.

If you can’t do it, leave my job, let me find somebody else because you have to make inflation to be single-digit. You have to reduce unemployment to single-digit. You must look at those two things, and you must increase productivity. So agricultural productivity is coming down, unemployment is rising, inflation is rising, and poverty is blooming. And then you go to Brazil and say, God loves Brazil more than us, or what? Or you’re asking the question, what do they have that we don’t have? They have common sense, they have good leadership, they understand economics, and they don’t want to cheat the economy. They want to study macroeconomic indicators and make sure that the policies are able to move the needle. It’s like you’re buying fuel into your car; you watch the gauge. If you’re buying fuel in your car, and the gauge is still empty, you ask, is the gauge faulty, or are they cheating you? Now you cannot say, I’ve spent N200,000 to fill the tank of a Land Cruiser, and the gauge is still empty, or less than one quarter.

You say, what happened? They are spending money, they are raising nominal increases in money; they are pumping money into the sub-national, into the state government, and all of that. They are spending all the money on certain invisibles, and they are happy that the economy is expanding, but they are not looking at the deliverables and the outcomes. That is what they are doing wrong. I will have more time, I will break it down for them, sector by sector, aspect by aspect, quarter by quarter, and I will tell them, medium term expenditure framework, and I will do the analytics of it, so that they will see the position. They will realize that they are not just going to Brazil, they are going away.

Ahead of the 2027 elections, politicking has begun in earnest. You saw what the PDP has done by zoning the presidential ticket to the south. What was your initial view when you heard that news?

Well, that’s what they should have done in 2023, because there is a popular demand that there should be equity in the country. So, they have this, at least from the elitist point of view, they have this north-south rotation that they’re doing. So, my only concern is that when it goes to the north, they bring the worst person. When it comes to the south, they also bring the worst person. But if it can be done positively, that when it goes to the north, they bring the best person, so you are voting for them not just because they are from the north, but because they are good for the job. And if it’s the turn of the south, you look for the best candidate also. So, I think, the party can correct its mistake, because the idea of rotation actually came from PDP. They were the ones who brought the idea of ‘turn-by-turn Nigeria Limited’, as Chief Bode George would call it. So, now that they are finally finding their way, they should not assume that that’s the only problem Nigerians have with them.

The problems we have with them is not just the north-south issue, it is the 16 years of bad governance. The luck that PDP has is that as bad as their government was, APC managed to equal them or even top them in mismanagement. Otherwise, Nigerians were not happy with the 16 years of PDP, and I think we haven’t forgiven them. So, it’s good that they’ve done this rotation thing, so as to make it easier for them to allow people to make more substantive arguments as to how to run the government. But I don’t think Nigerians want to see the PDP in power.

Finally, those who say the zoning to the south by the PDP just gave an easy answer or a quicker route for Bola Tinubu and the APC to clinch the election or win the election in 2027. What do you make of that?

Well, who is going to vote for President Tinubu in 2027 with all this suffering, with all the fake promises? President Tinubu said, ‘don’t vote for me if I don’t give you electricity’. Has he given it? He said: ‘I know the job; the job is tough. Let me do what I want to do. If you don’t like it, at the end of the four years, don’t vote for me.’ So, I don’t think if things remain the way they are in 2027, President Tinubu, in good conscience, shouldn’t be surprised if he’s massively voted out. Nigerians have suffered enough. His policies are not working and it’s not about us. Beside PDP and APC, Nigerians have better options. So, it’s not compulsory that if the PDP commits suicide, automatically, the APC inherits the politics. No, what we know is that APC and PDP are like Siamese twins. They are the same company now. They work together. Nigerians want alternative politics. We are looking for a new direction. That’s what people are saying; new direction.

People are talking about a new direction now. There’s nothing new about PDP. Definitely, there’s nothing new about APC. We’ve done change. We’ve done the next level. Now, we are in serious suffering. So, I think we need to understand that Nigerians have options. But if by 2027, something changes in terms of macroeconomics, in terms of security, in terms of poverty, in terms of employment, then President Tinubu becomes competitive. But the way it is now, I don’t think that for the good of the country, even for the good of the president himself, he should just go home and thank God that he’s the president for four years.

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