By Niyi Babade.
When few years ago I organized a befitting welcomed for distinguished Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (MOB)with pomp and pageantry and the sound of 21 gun salutes by the local hunters rendered the air has he gallantly entered ijero kingdom l knew right there and then that he his a man with heart of gold especially after introducing him to some of our political leaders in the town like Pa Beauty and my late uncle, Chief Femi Oyebanjo (the Aro of Idao) as they both unanimously made pleasant comment about the senator thus;
“Thank you for bringing him to be introduced to us in person, we have been longing to meet him since we have been enjoying and benefiting from his largesse long before now. He was single-handedly maintaining/sustaining our party office when opposition party was in power in the state, we love him.”
Rehabilitation of ijero road eye jumu/Folami MOB constituency project
This was at late Chief Femi Oyebanjo’s house then. Today the Iyin Ekiti born senate leader has not relented nor renegaded on his promise to make Ijero Ekiti his second home then.
Little wonder, Ijero Kingdom including other towns under the local government are currently enjoying unprecedented development and upgrading of its township roads and some suburbs, despite the fact that the senator never enjoyed overwhelming votes from the town due to the Yoruba parlance that “Omo eni ko le sedi bebere ka wa fi ileke si Idi Omo elo miran”.
He has promised to build and equip an ICU center for the state hospital in Ijero and also donate an ambulance to the college of Health in the town.
Only a man who has the fear of God in him and has compassion for humanity can do this. The distinguished has borrowed a trending phrase from his political leader Asiwaju Tinubu the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Elo fokan bale” you ain’t seeing nothing yet as many developmental projects and better life awaits the people of his constituency and Ekiti state in general.
