YABA LCDA WILL WITNESS TREMENDOUS
CHANGE UNDER MY LEADERSHIP
He is young
with a lot of experience to make that can make things happen as the sole administrator
of Yaba local councils development area, Hon Bayo Adefuye told the Editor or
society herald magazine, Sunday Adeyemi in this exclusive chat at the 72th
birthday of his dad, senator Anthony Adefuye at their lekki home said he will
ensure that the good people of Yaba LCDS get the best of governance by
providing meaningful leadership in the area of health, road construction, security.
youth empowerment and the rest, he said his prayer Is to surpass the quality
leadership style of his dad in politic, he also tell me what he really learn
from his father politically enjoy the chat.
Kindly introduce yourself Sir.?
Yes thank
and welcome, am Adebayo Adefuye, am the sole administrator of Yaba LCDA and am
happily married.
Your daddy just celebrated his 72th
birthday how will you best describe him as a father and a political leader?
Yes my daddy
is a wonderful Father, my role model and confidant, one in a million, I so much
like him because he is very good to all his children, he train all of us in the
Christian rightful ways and always make us remember that in whatever we do in
life we must put God first, so he is everything to me, as a political leader,
yes he has really done his best. He serve this nation meritoriously as a
distinguished senator of the federal republic of Nigeria while in Lagos
contributed to what all of us is now enjoying democratically, so my dad without
missing word as contributed to the democratically governance we are enjoying
today, on this note, I congratulate him as he turn 72th, and I pray that the
Almighty God will continue to sustain him with good health for us in Jesus
name. Amen
So what are the things you have learn
from him as a father?
Like I said
I learn a lot, today am the sloe administrator of Yaba LCDA, one of the
principle I practice or preach at my office is one of the things I learn from him
which is punctuality, some school of taught said punctuality is the soul of
business, so I imbibed on this, also he taught me that whatever I do, I must do
it well and the mist important is the spirit of tolerance, you know ad a leader
you must be tolerant, for a leader to be successful you must be tolerant, so I
use this principles to guide myself, and that is how I have been able to cope
with all the management team at my local government.
You are the sole administrator of
Yaba LCDA, tell me your experience so far at the council since your assumption?
Yes the
experience has been wonderful, the good people of Yaba local government had
made the job so easy for me with their cooperation, you know if you are new in
an area and the people there accept you in total, things will work in your favor,
the good people of Yaba has made the job good for me, also the people of Yaba
understand the fact that governance should not be left in the hand of the
chairman alone so they are always there to make their contributions too.
Are you saying no challenged so far?
No I never
say no challenged, but it is minimal, we all know that there are lot of
expectation from the people, the issue of who come first is another challenge,
also in the area of challenging residence to pay their tax, we meet to go extra
mile sometime enforced before people come to term with this visions, we in all
we thank God for the journey so far.
Sir you are coming from the private
sector to the public decor though you have a robust experience in politics, his
have you been able to marry this two together and getting this result you have
today in your council,?
Yes to me I
don’t see so many difference between the two, well I can even say the private
sector has more commitment, take for example
when we resume office staff of the local govt comes to work at their convenient
time, we have to talk call them to other. You know anything that involves the
government people will say, it’s not my father’s property, which is not like
that in the private sector, while I was in the private sector or my staffs must
be at work as Early as 7:30am if they want to retain their job, which is not so
when we came in, but today at Yaba LCDA, I have been able to correct that
ideology, also people believe things are done more faster in the private sector,
today have been able to adjust services rendered in my local government to be
more faster than before.
Sir can you tell us some of your laudable
project plan on going to make your council area the best and or the betterment
of the people?
Yes when we
came in. We did a thorough cross examination of all the immediate need of the
good people of Yaba LCDA and we made out some finding s, we realized that we
need more health care facilities, we need to expand our health care deliveries,
and we have started in Earnest to fix back what the people needed. Also on
education development we procured jamb form for indigent student and also add
some block of classroom where needed, the youth empower too is paramount in our
agenda, rehabilitation too is very key in our plan, so we have a lot in our
agenda, so the good people of Yaba will get the best in term of dividend of
democracy from my leadership term in the council. on sport development we are
at the best of it too.
Yaba is gradually becoming calm when
it comes to security treat, what are you doing to ensure the area continue to
be peaceful security wise?
If we
engaged the youths, security will be guarantee, just keep your finger cross we
have map out ideals to position our youth, so that they will be useful to
themselves and shun violence totally.
Sir today you are a sole
administrator tomorrow if the opportunity knocks and the people of Yaba said
they want you to continue as their chairman will you accept and how prepared
are you to be the council chairman,?
Like I
always says there is no much differences between sole administrator and
chairman, the difference is more has a legislative backing and the other no,
but the tasks is the same, if the door knock like you said I Will, and an ready
willing to serve with God behind me.
Sir can we say you will work add to
surpass your dads record politically?
Well the
pride of all parent is that, their children pass them in whatever they do and I
believe my dad is not left out, so what i see is that my father has really
achieve politically, but judging by the age he started, am more younger that
when he start and if we have to judge by this I might have gone far when i get
to his age, but I must confess he had really done well politically.
What should we expect to see new in
term of development, in Yaba LCDA when our crew will visit the area a in the
next 3 months?
Don’t stress
yourself for three month and assuring you in the next few weeks go to Yaba and ask the
people they will surely be glad to tell you yes the leadership of the council
is excellent in their governance
Are you working in line with the
development policies of the state government in your LCDA, and are you
complimenting all the state government efforts in your council area?
Yes the state
government under the leadership of his Excellency Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode is not
leaving any stone on turn to ensures that the State get the best in term of
dividend of democracy to we are doing too at the council, we compliment all
state efforts, if you recollect the tree plantation program, we did same at the
council.
Your final word to your constituents?
I want the
good people of Yaba LCDA to see us as there partner in term of development and
I employed them to join hand support of government to achieve the set goal so
that development will come to the area.
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