The Senator representing Lagos West at the Red Chamber, Senator Solomon Adeola Olamilekan has finally decided to run for the Ogun West Senatorial District seat in the forthcoming 2023 election.
The chairman of Senate Committee on Finance while speaking at a rally organized by West-to-West Convergence for Dapo Abiodun (W2W4DA) in Ilaro, disclosed that he is heeding the clarion call of his people to return home to contribute to the development of his people.
His words,”I want to thank God Almighty and the governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, my leader and governor and all other leaders from Ogun West for their interest in me and their well wishes leading to the event of today in Ilaro, the administrative headquarters of Ogun West. I am officially declaring to heed their call as their son to run as a candidate for Ogun West Senatorial District in the 2023 election.”
He endorsed the second term ambition of Prince Dapo Abiodun, adding that there is no vacancy in Oke Mosan in 2023.
According to him, the governor is returning for a second term based on his achievements so far in his first term in office.
“The style of governance of the governor has ensured that all parts of Ogun State to the ward level has one developmental project or the other to point to unlike what happened in the past with concentration of multi-billion-naira projects in some areas.
The Senator disclosed that over the years he has been contributing to the development of Ogun West Senatorial district through personal efforts and facilitations of projects which will increase in leaps and bounds if he is eventually elected as the senator representing Ogun West in the Red Chamber.
“I was the major donator to the multi- million- naira electrification of the College of Agriculture, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Aiyetoro Campus, I facilitated the construction of a modern library in the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro as well as the ultra- modern community multi-purpose pavilion at Asade Agunloye Pavilion, Empire Ground, Ilaro and numerous empowerments in skills acquisitions, training and grants for many indigenes. As a ranking senator, all these will come in multiples for Ogun West just as I am doing for Lagos West at presnt” he stated.