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The APC in Ogun East Senatorial region has made known its aim and has let go the much-touted gossip that the zone would deliver a contender to strive for the 2019 Ogun State governorship race. The gathering has picked Otunba Bimbo Ashiru, the former Ogun State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, as its accord contender for the governorship ticket. The support occasion, which was very much gone to by chieftains of the gathering, was held at Ijebu Ode GRA, as of late. Nine aspirants drawn from the nine nearby governments making Ogun East locale bumped for the seat.
While tending to the mammoth social affair, Chairman, Ijebu-Remo Forum, Dr. Gbolade Oshinowo expressed that the Ogun East senatorial area, has a trademark, "Ijebu l'okan, Ijebu l'oma se (it is the turn of the Ijebu, it is the turn of Ijebu to represent).
He said in compatible of its assurance to create the following governor on May 29, 2019, APC pioneers from Ijebu-Remo locale empanelled a four-man screening council to prescribe one out of the nine aspirants that connoted enthusiasm for the 2019 governorship decision for reception as an accord applicant. The board, he stated, started its work in July and it was commanded to convey the result of its screening to the four individuals, Chief Olu Okuboyejo (executive), Aare T Olu Dawodu, Basorun Adebisi Adesanya and Sen Dipo Odujirin on wednesday, November 15, 2017.
Executive of the board, Chief Olu Okuboyejo was a pioneer Permanent Secretary in Ogun State and the main survivor from the ancient Western Region to build up the Ogun State Public Service, while Aare Olu Dawodu resigned from the Ogun State Public Service as State Chief Pharmacist; a one-time Commissioner for Health and Chairman, Local Government Service Commission. He is as of now the executive, Ogun East APC seniors' gathering.
Basorun Adebisi Adesanya is a previous CEO/Chairman, Coca-cola International and Baba Oba of Makun, Sagamu; and Dipo Odujirin is a previous lawmaker that spoke to Remo and Ijebu Ode at the Senate in the second republic.
As per Oshinowo, a recent Special Assistant to ex-President Obasanjo on political issues, the screening board met unmistakable lawmakers, including two previous Deputy governors, Adegbenga Kaka and Prince Segun Adesegun, a previous representative, Olorunnimbe Mamowora, two serving magistrates, Otunba Bimbo Ashiru and Basorun Muyiwa Oladipo, a Senior Special Advisor, Jimi Lawal, a draftsman, Owodunni Opayemi, a therapeutic expert, Taofeek Kassim and an architect, Otunba Abayomi Odunowo. "In spite of the fact that Gov. Ibikunle Amosun said his choice to surrender energy to Ogun West was his very own supposition however whatever the authority of the gathering in the state, by the day's end say, may overrule his choice", said Oshinowo.
Oshinowo additionally said that the choice of Ogun East to pick its accord hopeful was a result of the need to abstain from committing the errors the general population of Yewa/Awori frequently make to such an extent that open doors regularly escape them at whatever point they were given a chance to handle a governorship applicant in the state. He, in this manner, depicted the four individuals from the board as men of outright trust and certainty that are morally sound and can't be threatened.
It would be reviewed that the Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun had, at various fora, focused on his assurance and sense of duty regarding pick his successor from Ogun West, a locale that has never delivered a governor since the making of the state 42 years back, yet the pioneers and older folks from Ogun East area have glared at the position of the governor, as they are laying square with claim to the 2019 Ogun State Governorship ticket based on turn at commonplace level.
As per the report introduced to the house by the screening board of trustees, drove Okubadejo, which was perused by Oshinowo, every one of the aspirants did well and they were portrayed as men of valor. The report said it was of need that just a single of them would rise as the competitor.
Dr. Oshinowo said amid the screening procedure, supported by the Paramount leader of Ijebu Land, Oba Sikiru Adetona, and the new Akarigbo of Remoland, the board gave out surveys to all aspirants which they all replied under sweat-soaked conditions.
The board of trustees along these lines prescribed, Bimbo Ashiru as favored goal among the other APC aspirants.
In his acknowledgment discourse, Ashiru praised the screening Committee for the great job done and furthermore to find him qualified to be the Ogun East Governorship competitor. He said the trust was an aggregate errand for him and different aspirants, pronouncing that he can't do only it without their aggregate help.
Ashiru was conceived in Ijebu-Ode to the celebrated Ashiru family. His dad, late Pa Simeon Adeyemi Ashiru, was a recognized Ijebu statesman while his mom 'Omo'ba (Princess) Moradeun Ashiru, is from the Fidipote illustrious group of Ijebu Ode and the decision place of Owu-Ijebu.
Ashiru stowed a degree in Marketing, Purchasing and Supply, and a Masters' Degree in Strategic Management. With this foundation, he entered the administrations of the then Chartered Bank in the year 1989. In an effective vocation that has spread over two decades and taken him to different establishments, he has served in different limits of Management (Head, Private Banking Unit; Branch Manager; Head, Institution and Professional Banking; Regional Coordinator; Country Director, Personal and Business Banking; Director, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Social Investments; until his last position of Group Head, Public Sector with Stanbic IBTC Bank which he was the pioneer leader of the office.
Otunba Ashiru, as indicated by various rendition of the individuals who know him, is a man with a want for creating individuals around him and this converted into his arrangement as the delegate of the Awujale of Ijebuland on the Ogun State Poverty Alleviation Task Force. He separated himself in this field and spoke to his kin positively to the best of his capacity and was very much recognized by the Awujale himself. He was likewise on the Technical and Communications Committees of the seventeenth Nigerian Economic Summit (2011).
He is an individual from The Metropolitan Club, Ikoyi Club 1938 and an individual from the Ijebu Heritage Group and Ijebu Renaissance Group.
Otunba Ashiru is a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Management of Nigeria; National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria and Chartered Institute of Commerce of Nigeria.
In acknowledgment of his magnanimous administration to society and having separated himself as a genuine child of Ijebuland and as a keen investor of notoriety, Otunba Ashiru was given the illustrious title of Otunba Adeona Fusigboye of Ijebu arrive in December, 2006 by His Royal Majesty, The Awujale Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona.
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