HE HIS GBENGA OLAWEPO, A MAN OF PRINCIPLE
HE BECAME NATIONAL PUBLICITY SECRETARY OF PDP AT THE AGE OF 33.
• He was close to the president, but he stood against elongation of tenure by the PDP executives in 2002 upon the request of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo.
• He would have also benefitted from the elongation, but he stood for the rule of law against personal interest.
• The president felt he was challenging him and therefore removed him through illegal means.
• But he didn't relent or changed his ideology, he fought back through legal means.
• After legal battle in court, HE WON and his office restored.
• He willingly left the PDP in 2003. As a founding leader, he realized the party had deviated from its principle and therefore had no cause to stay back.
• He his a man of principle, who has a history.
• He was the NANS PRO and leader of AntiSap rally in 1989 against IBB govt
• In 1990, he was appointed National Administrative-Secretary of the Committee for Defence of Human Rights where he worked briefly and doubled in the same role for the National Consultative Forum-a group founded by human rights activists led by Aka-Bashorun and nationalist politicians like late RBK Okafor, Kola Balogun, late Mbadiwe, Mahmoud Waziri and Alhaji Tanko Yakassai.
• He will become 50 years on 28th of June, 2015
The Nigerian Tribune, a newspaper founded by the late Nigerian Nationalist leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, captured this properly. The newspaper sometimes ago wrote: "In the political firmament of Nigeria, there are young Saraki’s, young Azikiwe’s, young Adedoyin’s who are children of established political and financial magnates but there are few names that have made it on their own to the political centre stage like Gbenga Olawepo, a rising star with no fall back platform or push of any godfather or back up of any financial empire. Talking of emerging political leaders this is a true discovery’’.

HE HIS GBENGA OLAWEPO.
What can you say about this role model for Nigerian youths?

We need more people like Comr. Gbenga Olawepo who can speak truth to power. ride on Happy Birthday sir.

Indeed