"What impressed me to come back to PDP from APC as at now, is the performance of Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State"-Elder Segun Olayiwola, Akinyele political stalwart.

                                                           PRESS CONFERENCE

                                               WITH ELDER SEGUN OLAYIWOLA

                                FORMER AKINYELE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CHAIRMAN

                                                  WHO DECAMPED FROM APC TO PDP

                                                   WITH HIS TEEMING SUPPORTERS

                                      IBADAN, OYO STATE ON 6TH OF FEBRUARY, 2020

                                                 AT AKINYELE, MONIYA PDP'S OFFICE.

  Politics is the art or science of government and a profession and means of winning , keeping governmental control. so also it is seen as an academy to impart the fundamental ideas, intrinsic and intricacies on how to serve, in directing the affairs of a state.

 However, in the course of learning to acquire experience to serve effectively, it is essential and important to know what to do, when to do and how to go about it, while many with the acquisition of the experience couple with initiative and fear of God justify themselves of the call to serve well and impart and impact their society commendably, to leave good legacy behind, yet some stray away from the course of duty derelict of substantial contribution, though history and record will be there to adjudge both as the case maybe .

 Meanwhile, not quite long ago  a political stalwart in Akinyele, a former Chairman of the Akinyele Local Government; Elder Segun Olayiwola crossed from APC to PDP where he had had a stint for sometime and being the fact that he has contributed a lot to the development of his society and the betterment of his people's welfare, as a true type of the former class of the politicians that believes in the service to humanity  and a protege of the school of thought of Late Kolapo Olawuyi Isola, also a former but late governor in Oyo State, so the decamped politician with his teeming supporters were welcomed back to the fold of PDP, with pomp and pageantry, .

 Elder Segun Olayiwola, a professional Town Planner, political stalwart, who had served under the tutelage of both living and died political juggernaut, timber and calibre of people like Late Kolapo Ol;awuyi Isola, Chief Christopher Alao Akala also a former Governor of Oyo State to mention few, had served earlier in the different capacities as political administrator and a former Akinyele Local Government Chairman.

 Nevertheless, he organized a press conference where some members of media professionals from different houses were present to have a chat with him, on what led to his exit from APC for PDP,  to which he belongs before and also what motivated him to have decamped from APC to PDP and to this he recapitulated on what, why, who , when and how led to his decision on his return to PDP as reported below

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    You are welcome to the session, I'm Olayiwola Olusegun , former Chairman Akinyele Local Government, Moniya, a politician of note, with my career running of about how many years now in politics; I actually started politicking in 1987 and up till date I have been in politics, that is about thirty three years ago and we started from nowhere to where we are today, we started as a trained politician under Baba Kolapo Olawuyi Isola, may his soul rest in peace, when I came from NYSC from Anambra State I joined him so that he could be able to get me employed, but yes he did that for a while, later he invited me to join him min politics but I resisted and I said you know I'm a Christian and by the grace of God politics is not meant for me but he told me "If I can wait then you could wait", I started watching him, along the line I could see that politics and religion with humanity go and in hand, you could see that however rich you may be without being in government there is little you can do, for the betterment of your people, because your riches , your wealth is limited but where you can get unlimited resources to get that of the thought for the people lies with government, for those who are out there to better the lot of their own people and by the grace of God, our antecedence would proves that, I started as a Councillor in 1991, I was Councillor Akinyele Local Government in 1991 and we started under Parliamentary System, so whoever was to be a Councillor out of the councilors they chose that there should be supervisory Councillors, so I was opportuned to be chosen as the supervisory Councillor for health, under the State administration, but not long after that Gen. Babangida Badamosi changed the system from the Parliamentary system at the Local Government to the Presidential System, there I was made the Council Leader of Akinyele Local Government. Later in the year I was made the Secretary of the then Oshun/Oyo State Council Leaders' Forum, that was the position I held until the end of our tenure in 1993 and from then because people like me all what we want in politics is to better the lot of our people , like I said so there is no hustle in struggling, what we be will be, until there was nothing to do I ventured into my own profession , because I was trained as a Town Planner, I studied Urban and Regional Planning, and I studied Council Development and Management and got Masters here and there and add my Msc Housing Development and Management, you know they go hand in hand, Urban and Regional Planning, Housing Development and Management. And I returned into private practice, I started a  property Develoment Company named Greeceland Property Limited, Greeceland Int'l property LMC of Maryland America, and that was what I was doing in between and as God would have it when Late Oga Lam Adesina came to power as Governor of Oyo State I was made a pert time member of Oyo State Youth Development Council, in politics if your interest is to serve the people, there is no position that could be regarded as being too small , take it , at that small level you can still get some people to assist, so I accepted it, that time I think we were earning five thousand per month and when I was Councillor we started as seven hundred naira per month, when it was changed to Parliamentary the Councillor were earning three thousand naira five hundred, those of us that were Council Leaders  were earning six thousand five hundred that was all we were earning  till we left office, no come six thousand when I was made a member of Youth Development Council of Oyo State we were of five thousand per month and by the time we left the AD for PDP  they thought of some of the members among who myself and Chairman Oyo State Youth Development Council Professor Soji Adejumo, two of us were shown the way out because we left AD for PDP  and from that time until 2007 December, when I contested I win the Chairmanship Akinyele Local Government and on the assumption of office I was made the assistant secretary of the Algon and my colleague Hon. Ismail Adedeji was also there , he was the Chairman of Atisbo Local Government, I was in the council between 2007 to 2011, I ran a term of three years after that I was chosen a caretaker chairman for another six months , so making three years , six months and to the glory of God, history is written in our favor, in our favor because ever before I became the Chairman only about two or three people had the opportunity of tarring roads with asphalt, in Akinyele Local Government, well Baba Kolapo Olawuyi Isoal opened the route to tarred a road, the first Chairman of PDP in Akinyele Professor Adeniran tarred the Local Government premises, Hon. Yemi Aderibigbe tarred two to three roads, but to the glory of God , for my three and half years, the opportunity God gave us we did not misuse it, we were able to tarred twenty two roads, I built a block of four classrooms and that was my own design, as a town planner, because to them it was either a block of three classrooms or six classrooms, I realized that I cannot  afford to build six classrooms with all responsibility, six classrooms was ideal then, at-least in a rural school one classroom per class , but when I could not afford to build the block of six classrooms in a number of schools I want it, I now designed  a program; a block of four classrooms, my design was that the classroom has blackboard either side, because out of the nineteen schools I built, about fifteen of them there were no classroom at all, it was as if they were using churches around, bales house, big house or sheds out there, so we designed a block of four classrooms ; Primary One and Two kept in a class, they were kept in a class, with the use of partition to separate them, a class will face right and another to the left, Primary three and four were using the same class and you know when you graduate from Primary four to five you are already preparing yourself for the task ahead, so they were given only one class, so we provided the class, where they were tutored, for the role they were likely to play in the future, when they get to Primary six, that was where they take Common Entrance, so they were left alone and that was how we came about our design of a block of four classrooms, with the headmaster's office and a toilet, so we built that, then what of if I want to talk of the number of boreholes, covet-pipes, etc.

 And in the religion circle when I assumed office as the Chairman Akinyele Local Government I wonder about the thought that over eighty to ninety-five percent Muslim population worship at the uncompleted Central Mosque in Moniya Akinyele, the Mosque they have when I was they and they built it during Governor Kolapo Olawuyi Isola regime, and they did the little they could about it, so Baba /Alhaji Suara Adeleke usually called Alhaji Agba and also the Chairman Butchers Association Oyo State then sold his house at Yemetu to do something in thaqt Mosque, they eventually squandered the money, all they could do was to get basement prepared for Talanpe; for prayers,

 In-fact when I assumed office as the Chairman or even before I became the Chairman almost three governors; Military Governor Adisa; this I was told by Late Alhaji Arisekola and Late but former Oyo State Civilian Governor Lam Adesina, Former Governor Rashidi Ladoja, who were Muslim had visited the Mosque and promised to do one thing or the other but were incapable to do anything, maybe due to shorty of capital , you know one thing I believe is that whosoever God has destined to do something will be the one to do it, and as they were waiting for who will do it, then I called the leadership of the Mosque, that I wanted to try something  about the Mosque but behind they felt skeptical and teased behind that how will I be able to do that, with the governors being unable to do it, though it was only Governor Rashidi Ladoja that did something about it, to have given them Two hundred and fifty thousand, according to the history, so I started  despite  the fact that I cannot perform to use all the lot of the money that belongs to the Akinyele Local Government on the Mosque, because the Christian will talk , so one day we had an executive meeting and I told them at the meeting that I had a conviction that we should start something about the Mosque, because it is the only unifying factor of our people in Moniya , if we are able to achieve a little I think this people will like us and will like our government, so I told my people ; my Vice Chairman, he is a serious person, and I said Vice Chairman you are going to be the Chairman of the Committee I'm going to set up, Director of Finance give me somebody that one is going to be Accounting Officer, so also I talked to CPM to give me somebody that is going to be the Secretary of the Committee, yet I talked to the Director of Works give me somebody, that one is going to be the Clerk of the Works, after which I told the Executive Council of the Mosque to give me two people to represent them and all these persons, from the different quarters constituted the ad-hoc committee for the project, now we started immediately, after our salary every moth, there is a standing order by me, to set  aside five hundred thousand into a dedicated account, for the Mosque, after the third months, we started on the building............................................................I still helped to build two churches, one I built before this other one that have been completed to the rooftop level  and it was so big and tall, so they needed 2,5million, I'm talking of 2009, they approached me........................................and I sought the approval of the Governor who acceded to before I gave them.........................................................But can you believe it that when we approached the end of the completion of the mosque; someone was envious of our performance and now went to approached the governor while the governor gave them 5 million...............................................yet the Chief Imam and the leadership of the Mosque appealed that though they knew I had tried a lot but will not mind to assist me to complete it, only that I told them I started the work and would complete it....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................so I called the director of Works, to quantify the cost for the completion of the Mosque, which they arrived at the cost of 5 million naira, so I approached the governor to approve the spending of the money, for the completion of the Mosque and he approved of it and we spent the money to finish the completion of the Mosque............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ On a lighter mood when we got to Moniya for today's event to declared for PDP, one of my boys said did I see how the event went gloriously with pomp and pageantry, that this could not be of the hand of Jesus that maybe I was using something fetish, even some of my present Council Chairman and Councillors said Oga, you must have used something fetish for this occasion to have gone so graciously and gloriously with teeming crowd of supporters of mine, yet I have not used anything fetish but that is what can do , if you can pray , if you can work, if you believe, trust and have confidence in the God you serve, He's not a god that can fail, whatever he says he will do he will do, it is how we started and this is where we are, you may want to ask what took me out of PDP...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................so, in 2017 when we were cheated all of us came out of PDP, because we knew it was a serious cheating.....................................................................................................................................................in annoyance we all came out of PDP, but than God we have all realized that  we over reacted truly, so that was what brought us to where we were, but if truly there is no place like home, our fathers who advised us frequently, have been diligently following me all the way immemorial in politics, hence at a juncture they advised us that they have got old and we should go back to where we belong; our homes, our place of rest, and since I don't think it would be too much for me to follow them, that is why you see us coming back PDP today.

........QUESTION TIME:=

Anybody that have passed through the school of thought of Late /former Governor Kolapo Olawuyi Isola who really graduated successfully and effectively being impacted should be automatically be accounted a role model, if not these Octogenarians will not be following you, but my question is to ask may be your aspiration is to go higher more than the place you are now, after this tenure  then are you not nursing the aspiration for a higher , Two; should we say the obedience to your fathers was one of the factors that brought you back to PDP?

Yes, to answer your question, infact if I had not obeyed them and even if I want to come back to PDP ; it would not have been now, because I would have loved the probability of getting my Oga to our side, because up till now, he has not agreed , and I have taken my babas to go with me to beg him, because some people came here last week , to plea with these babas, that they should tarry a bit, so it was the obedience to these babas, that brought us back, to where we are today.
 Number two, I don't think there  is anybody in politics that don't have one ambition or the other , that desire must be there , even my fathers that are following me they are following me for the sake of God, because of God and at-times if there is any opportunity that they should also considered to benefit from it, so I have ambition but for now I keep that to my chest.


  With this idea of Return of Hope of yours, what is your plan considering the development of the Akinyele Local Government.

Yes, my hope, my plan, my concern, my aspiration for Akinyele is a better tomorrow......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... If I now by His grace become something greater in future I'm going to make Akinyele a model State.


Your coming back to PDP is it a water testing, which after that you will win your Oga back to PDP eventually, Secondly with the followers that followed you back to PDP we will like to know the numerical strength and which parties have they come to join you in PDP?


Thank you very much , about whether our coming back to PDP is a water-testing; no , it is not, what brought people like me into politics is good governance, I feel they are not doing it the way it should be done and I have tested myself as Chairman and I could see that yes, people that have been doing it before me have not done it well except one or two like Baba Isola, it is only Baba Isola that I can doff my hat for and my Oga, even those before and after me, their achievement had not equated what I did alone.
 And you know what impressed me to come back to PDP as at now is the performance of Seyi Makinde, that young man is fantastic