Published By Olanrewaju Adesanya
Prominent constituents of Ajeromi Ifelodun Federal constituency , Ward 04 Olodi area of Lagos state have stated their resolve to team-up in support of an intending aspirant for the Federal House of Representatives on Peoples Democratic Party’s platform, Chief Bartholomew Francis Chima ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The PDP’s faithful gathered in Tolu area where erstwhile Reps Member Hon. Rita Orji, a serving All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker at the State House of Assembly Hon.Fatai Oluwa and the current executive Chairman Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area, Hon. Fatai Ayoola held sway.
The meeting held under the auspices of Hon. Mrs. Njideka Dora Okeke, a staunch PDP stakeholder in the area had in attendance party loyalists of the aspirants fondly called Omo Barca, they all stated their resolve to queue behind him for having been a grassroots mobilizer, who is always thinking about how people’s welfare could be better guaranteed.
At the well attended parley, participants took turns to narrate the impactful moves of Chief Chima while he was yet to join the political fray and why they will support him once the race begins.
One of the Ajeromi youths Mr. Lucky notes that although he has not seen Chima before now but his good works as expressed by Hon.Okeke are well felt and the fact that he is ardent loyalist of Okeke, wherever she goes he will gladly follow because her integrity is not in doubt.
Mrs Gladys Onouha a young woman who also commented on the need for Omo Barca to take the bold step, cited the fact that people in the area finds it hard to fend for themselves owing to the harsh economic realities.
She added that children overpopulation in public schools around the area is another cause for worry as 150 children gets cramped in one classroom, a development which makes learning difficult as the environment is really not conducive.
Mrs Onouha who was prevailed on by leaders to speak the Ajegunle preferred dialect (pidgin) added that Omo Barca is the only panacea for Ajeromi Ifelodun polity,as he is known for people oriented moves. Mr. Eniola Balogun a truck driver who travels across Nigeria, notes that it is high time people jettisoned tribal and religious sentiments, when politics is in top gear as that according to him has been the bane of Nigeria’s development.
