Aina Seeks Ogun West Senate Seat, Leverages Legislative Experience
Former Ogun House of Assembly member representing Ado-Odo Ota Constituency 1, Hon. Nurudeen Akinpelu Aina, has expressed his intention to contest for the Ogun West Senatorial Seat in the 2027 polls.
Akinpelu, who was a member of the OGHA from 2011-2015 and 2015-2019, disclosed this in an interview with Newslife online on Wednesday in Ota, Ado-Odo Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Speaking, Hon. Aina stated that he possesses the constitutional requirements, experience, legislative acumen, and need for him to replicate and uphold the impactful, people-oriented projects and legislative prowess he implemented during his representation at the 7th and 8th OGHA Assembly, among other factors, prompted his aspiration for the Ogun West Senatorial seat in the National Assembly.
The practicing lawyer and former member of the Ogun State Judiciary Service Commission disclosed that he has been a strong and loyal progressive since 2011, starting with Action Congress and now All Progressives Congress, adding that his constituents, party leaders, elders, and people of Ado-Odo State Constituency could testify to what he did during his legislative representation.
“Currently, I am into law practice and I am still contributing to the growth and development of my constituency, Ota. I live in Osi, Ota, among my people,” he said.
Looking at my political journey, I’ve been in politics quite a while. I’ve been to the House of Assembly, contested for Reps in 2019 and 2023, but couldn’t get the ticket. But I am trusting God that the Ogun West Senate seat will be a reality for me.
“By God’s grace, I am always positive wherever I find myself. I pray I get the ticket because we are not independent to stand for election in Nigeria; it is on a party’s platform. It is whoever the party chooses that will be the standard bearer, so if God does it for me and I get the APC ticket – the party that I have been in, never faltering since 2011 till date, from ACN to APC – by the grace of God, I will be elected as Senator of Ogun West in 2027.
“You will see that if we have a person with background knowledge of law, either as a profession or a lawmaker, it will be easier for such a person to have a platform to discharge and make bills for good governance in Nigeria.
“As a lawyer and former legislator, I have what it takes to serve the people of Ogun West at the Senate. With my past performances, it shows that I have the wherewithal to perform creditably well, like our current serving senator, representing the senatorial district, Solomon Olamilekan Adeola Yayi. He has been able to show us what it takes. He was once a member of LAHA, House of Representatives, and now Senate. He has shown us a template, which I will equally leverage on.
“Most of his works, though at a high level, are similar to what I’ve done. Like a father and son relationship, just as he was bringing infrastructure, roads, and schools to the senatorial district, like I did during my days at OGHA. I can say emphatically that I was the first legislator to do what we call ward-to-ward empowerment for people of my constituency back then, just like Yayi now.
“At present, I have been assisting my community development associations to grade roads and construct culverts with my personal money. I’ve constructed two schools in honor of my late mother.
On the consensus drive of the All Progressives Congress to pick the party candidates for the elections, Hon. Aina stated that he had been a beneficiary of consensus in the past.
“Yes, I am in support of consensus. Our party, All Progressives Congress, has been a rancour-free, peace-embracing party. Adopting consensus will reduce cost, campaign overhead cost, crises, and bitterness among aspirants and our loyalists and supporters. I pray that those who will decide the Ogun West Senatorial Ticket will pick me as the consensus candidate.”
