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Saheed Fijabi: The Wailings Of Oyo PDP Youth Leader || By Sola Abegunde

For the first time since Governor Seyi Makinde became Governor of Oyo state in 2019, I got to know that Oyo PDP actually has someone occupying the position of Youth Leader at the state level.

On the day the elephant fell, you are bound to see all manners of knives.

I read the press statement by the Oyo PDP Youth Leader, one Comrade Lekan Bello regarding the incident at the venue of the Oyo APC Youths summit which held at the Civic Center in Ibadan yesterday, 17th of December, 2025 and my first impression after reading the press statement was to ask what business the comrade has in the matter that made him to dissipate so much needless energy on an issue where he shouldn’t be concerned at all.

I thought within myself that the gentleman must be extremely idle.

According to the Oyo PDP Youth Leader, the act of ejecting Hon.

Saheed Fijabi from the venue of the Oyo APC Youths summit was ‘ disgraceful, reckless and embarrassing ‘.

Please, help ask him, who is being disgraced and embarrassed?

Him, the PDP or who?

These funny people in Oyo PDP can be nauseating.

If the Youth Leader is now being embarrassed and disgraced because the Youths within Oyo APC decided to be proactive against saboteurs, how did the Youth Leader feel when Auxiliary and his gang of trouble makers took over Oyo state, enforcing a reign of terror for over four years?

Was he a happy man at the time?

The APC Youths saw someone who just disparaged their party, a couple of days before the summit and they asked him to excuse them from the summit and once the fellow in question exited the venue, they proceeded with their robust engagements as scheduled, without further itch.

If the PDP are disgraced and embarrassed as a result of that proactive measure, I recommend that they take pain killers.

The clownish fellow also went further to say that the actions of the Oyo APC Youths constituted what he termed as ‘ ..

Seyi Makinde, has appointed a former Member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Saheed Akinade Fijabi, as the chairman of the Oyo State at 50 Anniversary Committee.

The governor, in a letter signed by his Chief of Staff, Otunba Segun Ogunwuyi, announced the appointment of the 11-member committee, on Monday.

Other members of the committee include a former Head of Service of the state, Alhaja Ololade Agboola (Deputy Chairman); Dr Z.O.

Ajuwon, OON; Mustapha Razaq Areo; Alhaja Fatimah Ololade Azeez; S.A. Adejumo; and Pastor John Olasunkanmi Alabi.

Other members of the committee are Alhaji A.K. Bello; Mrs Ronke Adedayo (Secretary); COMPOL Fatai Owoseni (rtd) and the Director General of Protocol, Mr Samuel Adegboyega Badejo.

The appointment is with immediate effect.

Below are excerpts.

Mention a bit about your experience as a law maker?

Having spent 8 years as a law maker, I have had an amazing and humbling experience where I have learnt a lot about Nigeria, the Nigerian people, our cultures, the travails and challenges of the people and what it takes to be an effective law maker in order to adequately serve the people and my constituency.

During this time as a law maker, I was Chairman, House Committee on telecommunications and in addition, I raised lots of motions and bills that impact the Citizens of Nigeria positively.

However in 2019, I contested again but lost the election. ICT centers have been established in most of the secondary schools in the area. Where I contested for the post of Chief Scavenger and also while I was at Ibadan Polytechnic , I was the Public Relations Officer for my department and also contested for the President of the Student Union Group.

But my service to Nigerians via Politics started in 2011 when I contested for and won the position of a House of representative member representing the Ibadan south-west/north-west Federal Constituency area of Oyo State.

All through life he has always been guiding me . Also, I facilitated an ICT project of about 200 million Naira at the Ibadan Polytechnic, my alma mater.

There are numerous projects facilitated and supported by me all over Ibadan and especially in my constituency . I contested and won again in 2015 for same position of a House of representatives member.

To me, politics is all about service to the people, to humanity. And I will continue this service in any way I can, either as a politician or through my charity organisation, Saheed Akinade-Fijabi Foundation. I think it will be hard for anyone to meet that legacy.

All this is in addition to the various motions and bills which affect not only the lives of my constituency but also, the lives of Nigerians.

All I have done are visible and evident

I do believe I can still do a lot more if given the opportunity to hold any other position in the state or in the country.

How have you found the job of a lawmaker?

Interesting with a lot of challenges.

The job was interesting and pleasant because the passion I have for a better country and serving the people, developing people and passion for the law making process made it a pleasurable job.

The challenge came from the fact that all I did, no matter how much, always seemed like a drop in an ocean.

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Is he also a politician like you?

My father is a strict, straight but easy man. Many members of the constituency depend on the representative to provide personal needs like school fees, support for naming ceremonies, and so on.

I think the legislative arm needs to be made more robust and stronger to ensure a swifter achievement of a better Nigeria.

Since to me , it was always about being at the service of and service for the people, I kept doing my best and doing my part.

Looking at all I have done for the Ibadan south-west/north-west Federal Constituency area of Oyo State, I consider myself one of the best representatives for the constituency in recent times.

I turned the constituency to an Information and technology (IT) hub. breakdown of order, discipline and leadership ‘ further reinforced the fact that the gentleman was just talking without pausing to chew his words.

If you are talking about a breakdown of order, discipline and leadership, how is that applicable to the APC?

Is it not the PDP that is struggling with orderliness, discipline and leadership across the country?

Are they not the ones breaking glasses and bottles on each other’s heads at the Wadata Plaza some weeks ago?

Are they not the ones who have taken themselves to multiple Courts across the country?

Are they not the ones who have everything in double-double?

Double National Secretariat.

Double National and state party officers across the country?

Why would people not concentrate on removing the logs in their own eyes but would be sweating over the chaffs in the eyes of others?

I laughed till tears were rolling down my eyes when I read the portion where the Oyo PDP Youth Leader claimed that Oyo APC ‘ could not manage its internal affairs and therefore lacks the moral authority to aspire to govern Oyo state ‘.

Beautiful diction, but where is the sense in that statement?

If the PDP is capable of managing its internal affairs, why is it that Governors, Senators and House of Representatives members elected under it keeps defecting to the APC on a daily basis to the extent that only Governor Seyi Makinde remains as Governor in the party in the whole of Southern Nigeria?

In a spate of two months, Oyo APC has organized a Leadership Summit.

The Students wing has held a summit and the Youths just held a successful Summit.

I understand that the PDP must be jittery as a result of these positive steps.

My simple advice for the PDP in Oyo state is to face the existential problems bedeviling their party.

As for the Oyo PDP Youth Leader, healer, heal thyself.

I am not aware of any programs of engagements that the PDP Youths has organized until now.

Someone cooked a soup and you’re calling for his head because you claim the soup is not tasty.

What should be done to you, who prepared nothing.

Oyo APC have demonstrated that it would no longer tolerate saboteurs within it’s fold and no matter how loud the PDP chose to wail, nothing would change.

Sola Abegunde.

Oyo State@50: Hon Saheed Fijabi Appointed To Chair Committee By Makinde

Engineer ‘Seyi Makinde, the governor of Oyo State has appointed a former Member of the House of Representatives, Hon.

Saheed Akinade Fijabi, as the chairman of the Oyo State at 50 Anniversary Committee.

The governor, in a letter signed by his Chief of Staff, Otunba Segun Ogunwuyi, announced the appointment of the 11-member committee, on Monday.

Other members of the committee include a former Head of Service of the state, Alhaja Ololade Agboola (Deputy Chairman); Dr Z.O.

Ajuwon, OON; Mustapha Razaq Areo; Alhaja Fatimah Ololade Azeez; S.A. Adejumo; and Pastor John Olasunkanmi Alabi.

Other members of the committee are Alhaji A.K. Bello; Mrs Ronke Adedayo (Secretary); COMPOL Fatai Owoseni (rtd) and the Director General of Protocol, Mr Samuel Adegboyega Badejo.

The appointment is with immediate effect.

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With the opportunity of being the Chairman , House Committee on telecommunications, I was able to facilitate ICT centers into the constituency.
My services didn’t end at my constituency. For example, I moved the motion for Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh to be recognized as a hero for stopping a wide spread of the Ebola virus in Nigeria by placing the patient zero in quarantine.
Another example is the motion I raised for an investigation into the MMM monetary scheme.

He is a father not only to his children but to all who he loves. And this led me to support the ‘not too young to run ‘bill which was successful.
One thing I have also learnt is the legislature is a very important arm of government and they are the bedrock of democracy which if not taken seriosly can lead to arnarchy. In this interview with City People Publisher Seye Kehinde he talks about his career and experience in politics.