…Probes Reasons Behind Region’s Failure To Produce Governor Since 1976
Ahead of the 2027 general elections and against the backdrop of alleged marginalisation of their zone since the creation of Ogun State on February 3, 1976, the leaders of Ogun West are now intensifying efforts to strengthen the formulation and implementation of strategic communal policies aimed at promoting economic prosperity, political stability and social justice for their people.
Towards this end, key stakeholders on the platform of Yewa People Development Council, led by the Paramount Ruler of Yewaland and Olu of Ilaro, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, have inaugurated the Yewa Political Summit Committee to midwife a united front for the people of Ogun West through a well-attended political summit.
YPDC is a not-for-profit organisation approved and registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) with the certificate Number 160967 dated June 30, 2021.
According to the Chairman of the Media Sub-Committee of the summit organising committee, Dr. Yemisi, Bamgbose, the former Vice- Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Rahamon Bello, is the chairman of the YPDC’s Governing Council while Pastor Obafemi Akinola FCA is the Secretary-General.
Justice Mobolaji Ojo has also been appointed as Chairman of the Political Summit Committee, while the Secretary is Dr. Morakinyo Ololade.
YPDC’s main objective is to prevent social exclusion while promoting 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, which is slated for the latter part of the third quarter of 2025, will bring all groups in Yewaland together in a political summit to chart the way forward, with a focus on 2027.
The Yewaland Political Summit Committee was formally established recently by the YPDC with terms of reference as follows: To 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 also agree on a Pan-Yewa agenda to be subscribed to by Yewa sons and daughters aspiring to high political offices.
It will also set up modality for strategic discussion on harnessing and harmonising various interests on the political landscape in Yewaland.
According to Dr. 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.”
The media committee chairman noted that the YPDC will work together with the Yewa Traditional Council in its activities.
“As such, the roles and interface of YTC members in the drive of Yewaland must be a focus of the summit as well,” Bamgbose said.
