Ekiti News reports that Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, the Senate Leader, has announced that he and other members of the Ekiti State Caucus in the National Assembly will collaborate with other like-minded individuals to support Governor Biodun Oyebanji for a second term, citing the Governor’s outstanding performance and exemplary leadership qualities.
Speaking in Igede-Ekiti on Friday during an inspection of his constituency projects in the Ekiti Central Senatorial district, the Senate Leader stated that he and other National Assembly members from the state will soon publicly declare their support for the Governor’s second term.
Senator Bamidele added that this declaration would be widely publicized in all national newspapers and broadcast media.
The Senate Leader who was accompanied on the project inspection and inauguration by Governor Biodun Oyebanji said the Governor’s transformative leadership and people oriented policies and programmes has brought a lot of significant development to the state and its people.
Senator Bamidele who affirmed that Governor Oyebanji’s ability to unify every political tendencies in the state and mobilize the people for development has brought a huge and significant growth to the state.
The Senate Leader explained that the Governor has continued to collaborate with members of the National Assembly and get them actively involved in his development agenda.
Senator Bamidele said he is able to carry out a lot of constituency projects across the six local governments that make up his Central Senatorial District because the Governor has created and sustained an atmosphere of peace and tranquility in the state that is devoid of hostility and mutual suspicion.
The Senate Leader said the peaceful atmosphere, coupled with the Governor’s open hands to the various political tendencies has encouraged everyone to contribute his quotas to the development of the state.
He said, “I want to use this opportunity to thank our Governor, I say this everywhere I go to, if you elected somebody to represent you in Abuja and he comes back home to do something it is because they allow him to come back home. If they don’t allow us, we will just remain in Abuja, we will not pass our boundary.
“But we have a Governor today who will sit down with us and say this is what our people need, if you want to do your constituency project, please, work on this list and I know that market development was part of what the Governor discussed with us, transformer was part of it, solar street light was part of it and by the grace of God every member of the national Assembly would pick from the list given to us by the Governor because if we do not do what the people want at where they want it, it will be useless.
“Your Excellency, we are proud of you and I know that by the grace of God like everyone is saying, anybody that thinks there is vacancy in 2026 is only deceiving himself and I am begging you, don’t let anybody deceive our people. You sent nine of us to Abuja, three senator and six House of Representative members and at the appropriate time, the nine of us will do our advert jointly signed endorsing Governor Oyebanji as our consensus candidate in all the dailies.”
The Senator, speaking further promised to rebuild the Igede- Ekiti market to Iyin Ekiti standard, said all the market, solar power, roads and hospital projects would be replicated across the six local Government areas on the district.
In his response, Governor Oyebanji, praised the commitment of the Senator Leader and his colleagues in the National Assembly to Ekiti development adding that their exemplary performance underscored the importance of electing people of proven integrity and capacity as representatives in government.