• Ogun West unveils plans to confront abnormalities
From Laide Raheem, Abeokuta
Owing to alleged marginalisation of their area since the creation of Ogun State on February 3, 1976, leaders of Ogun West are making frantic efforts to strengthen the formulation and implementation of strategic communal policies aimed at promoting economic prosperity, political stability, and social justice for the people.
Key stakeholders on the platform of Yewa People Development Council (YPDC), led by the paramount ruler of Iyewaland and Olu of Ilaro, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, have inaugurated the Yewa Political Summit Committee (YPSC), to midwife a united front for the people of Ogun West through a well-attended political summit.
The YPDC is a not-for-profit organisation approved and registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). Chairman, Media Sub-Committee, summit organising committee, Dr. Yemisi Bamgbose, said former Vice- Chancellor, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof. Rahamon Bello, is chairman, YPDC’s governing council and Pastor Obafemi Akinola secretary-general. Justice Mobolaji Ojo is chairman, Political Summit Committee and secretary, Dr. Morakinyo Ololade.
He said: “YPDC is to prevent social exclusion and promote social inclusion and community strengthening through supporting, developing and promoting unity within and among Yewa communities and Yewa-based community managed organisations.
“The committee will focus on community development, social inclusion and community-focused services as well as promote effective development of Yewaland.
“To enhance and speed up the process of assimilation and harness the current political gains in Yewaland, the summit, slated for the latter part of this third quarter, will bring all groups in Yewaland together in a political summit to chart the way forward, with an eye on 2027.”
Source told Daily Sun that YPSC will “organise an all-inclusive one-day political summit for Yewaland on the thrust of charting the way to harmony towards the contest for Ogun governorship seat in 2027.
“The summit is also aimed at examining in all ramifications, the factors and circumstances which directly, indirectly or remotely, contributed to the inability of candidates of Yewa extraction, to clinch the coveted office of the governor of Ogun State since the creation of the state in 1976.
“The forum will equally agree on a Pan-Yewa agenda to be subscribed to by Yewa sons and daughters aspiring to high political offices. It will set up modality for strategic discussion on harnessing and harmonising various interests on the political landscape in Yewaland.”
Bamgbose: “The committee will determine and invite the delegates that will discuss the role that effective political leadership can play in addressing the challenge, share experiences on how to develop the requisite political harmony that can lead Yewaland to take her rightful position, and reflect on how to build the critical political understanding among various players necessary for sustainable political opportunities.
“The committee will also chart the way forward towards implementing the output of such a summit. YPDC will work together with the Yewa Traditional Council (YTC). As such, the roles and interface of YTC members in the drive of Yewaland must be a focus of the summit as well.”
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