Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele, representing Ekiti Central Senatorial District, is slated to be guest speaker at a media chat being organised by a group, Ogun West Professionals, holding on Sunday, February 1, 2026 at Frontiers Hotel, Ilaro, Ogun State.
The event is aimed at creating unity and coherence among the people of Ogun West Senatorial District on the clamour for a winning governorship candidate from the zone for 2027 election.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation and Senator representing Ogun West, Senator Solomon Adeola, a frontline aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), will face the invited media representatives, monarchs, community leaders and guests on his agenda for the zone at the media chat.
The Chairman of Steering Committee of Ogun West Professionals, Dr. Yemisi Bamgbose, who is the Executive Secretary of Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON), in a statement, said that since the creation of Ogun State in 1976, the governorship seat has been exchanged between only two senatorial districts, namely, Ogun East and Ogun Central – to the detriment of Ogun West. But, Ogun West Senatorial District is a major economic hub covering 37 per cent of the state’s landmass, he added.
Bamgbose said as next year’s governorship election draws near, the Ogun West Professionals is ready to tackle the impediments of lack of cohesion and unity of purpose among major political players in the Ogun West Senatorial District.
“So, the part the group is charting is to look around and then look at the various political aspirants, those that have been showing interest that they are going to contest and they are looking for platform.
“So, the media chat is being held in Ilaro, where the attendance is expected to be over 2,000 because the professionals themselves – a platform of a little close to a thousand members – is reaching out to other formidable groups, formidable clubs or the artisans across the state.
“They have been contacted to ensure that they are part of the programme. We are looking for everything that we can do to harmonize opinions, to bring people together so that a formidable team and a formidable voice can emanate from Ogun West Senatorial District so that we can get the buy in of Ogun Central Senatorial District and Ogun East Senatorial District in terms of support so that come 2027, we’ll be able to get the nod for it.
“So, I think the body is equally looking at who is likely and who is more favorable within the ranks of the politicians that are clamouring to contest.
“So, we are working for unity and coherence among aspirants from the zone. Certainly, we cannot get 100 per cent support for any particular candidate because as long as we have different political parties, there will be different interests and there could be different candidates.
“But this time around, I think part of what the Ogun West professionals are clamouring for is to make sure that aspirants from the zone in key political parties ensure that they are made the gubernatorial flagbearers of their parties so that the people of Ogun West Senatorial District can eventually determine whom they want.”
According to him, “The Ogun West Senatorial District has not been fortunate enough to occupy the number one position in Ogun State in terms of gubernatorial seat since the state was created in 1976, most especially under this democratic dispensation.
“And this was largely alluded to the fact that the people from the zone, most especially the politicians, have not been speaking with one voice. So, the Ogun West Professionals identified lack of unity, one voice and coherence among the people as militating against their desire to win the governorship seat.
“We the professionals are indigenes of various towns and villages across the zone; that is, from the Awori, the Yewa, the Anago, the Ketu, etc. That is, in all the Ogun West’s five local governments: Ado-Odo Ota, Imeko Afon, Ipokia, Yewa North and Yewa South.
“The professionals said let’s have a media chat with Senator Adeola to hear from him directly and to let him tell the whole world what he has on the table to ensure that Ogun West can win the gubernatorial election that is coming in 2027.”
