ONIROKO, ADO-ODO/OTA LG, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA – The Oniroko of Irokoland in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, Oba (Arch.) Olusegun Feyijinmi, has pleaded with all serving and former public office holders to emulate a former member of the House of Representatives for Ado-Odo / Ota federal constituency, Honourable Babatunde Ogunola (a.k.a Tomo), who has continued to impact in an unprecedented manner on the lives of the people of the local government.
Oba Feyijinmi, who made these remarks on Saturday during the installation of a 500KVA transformer donated by Honourable Ogunola to Ifelajulo Central and Ifelajulo West Community Development Areas (CDAs) in Iroko town, Ijoko – Ota, Ogun State, noted that the people of the entire community would forever remain grateful to Honourable Ogunola for his impactful philanthropic gestures.
The monarch charged the political class and all public office holders, regardless of their political affiliations and ideologies, to borrow a leaf from Honourable Ogunola and channel all their resources towards the development of their various communities.
In his welcome address, the Axis Chairman. Ifelagba CDA, Mr Hassan Olutade,, was full of praises to Honourable Ogunola for coming to the aid of the two communities to end the abysmal electricity supply in the area, adding that the communities had never had it so good.
The Chairman, Ifelajulo Central CDA, Engr. Joseph Apata, lauded Honourable Ogunola for his philanthropic gestures, stressing that his donation of a multi – million naira transformer to a community where he neither had any relation or business interest nor contesting for any political office, but only came to the aid of the communities when an appeal was made to him, was, no doubt, worthy of emulation by all serving and former political and public office holders.
According to the Chairman, Ifelajulo West CDA, Alhaji Wahab Agunbiade, Honourable Ogunola’s ingenuity was second to none and noted that since the energization of the transformer, the quality of life and economy of the people had changed.
While on tour of the ongoing Iroko – Aparadija police station building project in the community, Honourable Ogunola commended Oba Feyijinmi and the people for single – handedly funding such a gigantic project and promised to assist the community by equipping the offices on completion of the project, promising that he would always be ready to assist the community’s worthy causes in the future.