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HON. LEKE JOSEPH ABEJIDE: A RELIEVING RETURN TO DESIRABLE LEADERSHIP VALUES AND REPRESENTATION IN YAGBA FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY

8/05/2021

"In the long run, the best proof of character is good actions." ~ John Stuart Mill

Hon. Leke Joseph Abejide, the honorable member representing Yagba Federal Constituency, is the best possibility of Leadership by example, his revolutionary leadership style will position Yagba Federal Constituency in global spotlight for progress and development in the shortest period never imagined possible. He is an indespensable man of character!

Elder Leke Abejide came to his constituents with his values - a good leader starts with his values, his ideals and everything that is important to him as an individual and to his people, rather than what might sound good or what might be important to a selected few. His emergence as the member representing Yagba Federal Constituency at the green chamber, we can boldly say, is a return to desirable leadership values and representation in Yagba.

For the benefits of those who might have forgotten what the trend looked like before Hon. Leke Abejide. Here is a comprehensible trajectory of what is now a past scenario in Yagba but still a reality in major parts of the country:
Politicians come to the electorates usually close to elections to tell the people that they are their friends; they share their pains and if elected in office they would wrought wonders, some may even go as far as saying they will build the people a "silicone valley." The unsuspecting voters vote them into office and they vanish into the thin air until another election period, the cycle continues. And this is not peculiar to Yagba Federal Constituency. This is the prevailing habit of the political class in Nigeria. Little exception, I beg your pardon, I must include here that the most pious among them may frequently send the electorates some instagram videos of the la vida loca to remind them how poor and helpless they are and how impossible it is for them to come anywhere close to his achievements. The most sympathetic ones shed tears on national television and return home to do nothing about the situation. Can someone please hold me? I can't resist the urge to laugh titter and lose my strength. What is wrong with the political class you want to ask? I don't know.

Apologies for the digression. Howbeit, amidst the political misnomer of the words "Leadership and Representation" one man brought us to an interesting discovery that almost all problems can be solved by a return to a value-based Leadership! Representation by character and I mean character in the words of John Stuart Mill only "In the long run, the best proof of character is good actions." Hon. Leke Abejide is taking all the best actions requisite to the progress of his people!

Teaching us why God blesses men with resources, he assumes the socio-economic burdens of an entire federal constituency, namely: installation of medical gadgets and facilities, payment of WAEC fees, equipping schools with facilities, rehabilitation of road networks, empowerment of security perssonels, youths and widows empowerment. These are important to us as a people!
Anytime men don't know why God blesses them they will build idols!

I mean what type of a Nigerian politician says I will do this, I will do that in two days and goes ahead to do it the following day?

Hon. Leke Abejide has proven and is still proving that he is poised in building projects that have recognized values around perceived opportunities for his constituents. All his calculative steps since he won election into the federal house of representatives are a derivative of his genuine love for his constituents and humanity at large, Let's therefore join hands and support him.

Leke IDRIS

HON. ELDER LEKE ABEJIDE: THE CLOCK THAT TICKS HOPE IN YAGBA LAND

By Leke Idris
The Chairman, Okeoyi Students’ Union

The avoidable sacrifice of personal interests and pleasure for the public good is the eternal stamp of virtue. In a time when the numerous financial resources accrued from political offices are employed to provoke society’s standard of modesty, decency and morality has become an acceptable norm in Nigeria’s political landscape, Hon. Elder Leke Abejide, the honorable member representing Yagaba Federal Constituency presents himself as the clock on the walls of Yagba land that ticks hope even when it is far easier for him to join modern politicians who readily attract wide support.

Seeing the country’s economic hardship which has deprived many people a decent meal when starving and a pair of shoes for the decaying feet of a poor man, I asked with tears in my eyes, How many of our beautiful girls who could have been our future Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan (the success people are talking about)but have dropped out of school to become adolescent mothers due to lack of financial means to chase their academic destinies? How many of our brilliant school boys have become hunters chasing rabbits and monkeys around in our forests because there were no hopes for a better future? How many students failed and lost the courage to further their education because they could not pay WAEC fees? But at the face of it all, with a free option of committing his resources to frivolous ventures without giving a damn as is common among Nigerian politicians, Hon. Leke Abejide chooses the most noble alternative. He puts his hands in his pocket saying “Our children must be educated!” This noble deed of yours remains the most radical of revolutions without any iota of doubt. Since education, you will agree with me, is not only the miracle for intellectual enlargement but also the most potent tool for the development and growth of a people.

This man is teaching every other persons who have the capacities to ignite hope in the ugly face of despair a lesson. He is teaching the world a very expensive lesson! He is teaching you a lesson. He is teaching me a lesson. He is teaching all of us a lesson that life is not worth living if not for the purpose of service and genuine love for humanity. And this is a virtue all and sundry must covet.

Dear Elder Leke Abejide, I offer you my chiefest assurance that your numerous educational outreaches will bring Yagba people victory over poverty. When this happens your name must have been indelibly written in gold. Education makes all the obvious differences among men. I therefore charge you not to discontinue in your usual tradition. You are touching humanity in the most positive ways possible and I am certain that generations yet unborn will trace their emancipation from the bondage of poverty to your name.
I pray that the threads your hands have weaved, may they not fray. Amen.

Idrisleke0@gmail.com

REVOLUTION: A RAPID TRANSITION FROM THE UNDESIRABLE TO THE DESIRABLE, INEVITABLE IN ANY BROKEN SYSTEM
By Leke Idris (Playfair)
Albert Einstein became very famous and admired by every nations of the world for saying that 'insanity is doing the same thing, same way, over and over again, and then expecting a different result'
Today, every Nigerian with a mind to think critically and independent of the Machiavellian political ideology; fire may consume the state in as much as my interests are intact, may likely agree with me that the current Nigeria's sociopolitical structures and systems are a broken one. Therefore the need to embrace a new order naturally becomes inevitable. Nigeria fondly referred to as the giant of Africa has become a laughing stock and a shadow of itself, to the chagrin of her concerned youths.
Today, it is an understatement that nothing is working in Nigeria! In a nation such as Nigeria where there is a prolonged systemic disorder what do we do, should we fold our hands and continue with the status qou with the current pace of global socioeconomic awakening?
For how long shall we continue to seat obese in the front of our TV sets expecting to wake up one day to find hospitals, roads, power supply and educational systems that we did not build? Angels did not build the countries that our politicians run to to meet their various needs. Nations are built by governments and not fictitious beings. Our leaders must urgently wake up to their responsibilities. The youths desire a nation that works for all and not for the very few in the corridors of power.
Revolution is not the same thing as terrorism, it is a yearning for a new order that produces the desired results for progress and development of any given nation, it is a rapid change from a rather unproductive convention to a more sensible, save and sublime ways of doing things. And so, the vehement resistance of this movement by the government without a particular interest in the closest possible stakes of the advocates and the frontiers of the movement is a pointer that the government prefers to remain Paleolithic in her approach to governance. And that is bad politics. Since good politics beget progress and growth.
A bird eye view of the various lists of the demands from the organizers of the revolution who fall in the social category of youth will convince you that their requests are not in anyway peculiar to Nigeria, namely: That the government should end anti - people economic policies, end special privileges for the ruling class and return political power and national wealth to the working people. All over the world young people are even more awake with fierce interest in the affairs of the government of their various countries. Similar to what Nigerian youths are doing. What is the big deal?
Therefore, for Mr. President to be able to prove to the whole world that he is not on a hidden mission to completely silent the youths for the perpetuation of the old political order even when there is a pressing need for a rapid change which characterizes the global political scene, he must employ wisdom in addressing the demands of the youths that brought him to power. Especially today that the inclusion of the youths and the exploitation of their talents and innovative ideas stands tall in the priorities of world leaders.
God bless Nigeria!

The Governor of kogi state, Yahyah Bello is like a plague to the people of kogi state. He does very little and minute things and then hurry up to the media houses to magnify whatever he has done. Leaving Kogi people at the mercy of God. If he paid 70% salary for 3 months, he will run to the media to announce that he has cleared all salary arrears for 5 months.
What kind of a leader lies like that?
And you dare not say anything or else they will send thugs against you.
May God deliver us!