My Attempt To Return To Ogun During Amosun’s Reign Failed -Yayi

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Candidate for Ogun 2027 Governorship Election, Senator Solomon Adeola said his attempt to return to Ogun political space during Ibikunle Amosun’s tenure failed.

According to NAN on Tuesday, Senator Adeola fondly called YAYI disclosed this on Monday while addressing newsmen in Lagos.

He noted that Governor Dapo Abiodun made his return to his home state from Lagos smooth.

According of him, 2023 was my third attempt of trying to return to Ogun state to continue my political activities. God used Governor Dapo Abiodun to make it possible.

Yayi dismissed the claim that he is from Ekiti State, stressing that both his father and mother were from Ogun state.

“My father is from Ogun State, my mother is from Ogun State. I am from Ogun State. Those who claim I am from Ekiti are jesters,” he said.

Adeola, popularly known as Yayi, also debunked the claim that his father was buried in Ekiti.

According to him, his late father was buried in the house he built at Ogunsola Street in Alaguntan, Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos.

“My father was not buried in Ekiti; my father was buried in the house he built at Ogunsola Street at Alaguntan in Alimosho,” he said.

The lawmaker said that with 24 years in the legislature – eight years in the Lagos State House of Assembly, four years in the House of Representatives and 12 years in the Senate – he had acquired the requisite experience to govern the state.

He said what Ogun needed now was consolidation and continuity. “I strongly feel that the next person in line must come to consolidate on the gains we have made in the last seven and a half years as a state,” Adeola said.

He said Gov. Dapo Abiodun had laid a solid foundation for economic development. “Under the administration of Governor Dapo Abiodun, Ogun has done extremely well, and that I can testify to,” he said.

Adeola explained that governance was about the seen and the unseen, stressing that while the seen were physical infrastructure such as roads, schools and hospitals, the unseen were economic foundations that would give birth to the seen.