Following alleged marginalization of their area since the creation of Ogun State on February 3, 1976, leaders of Ogun West are making efforts to strengthen the formulation and implementation of strategic communal policies aimed at promoting economic prosperity, political stability and social justice for the people.
Key stakeholders, on the platform of Yewa People Development Council, led by the Paramount Ruler of Yewaland and Olu of Ilaro, Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, have inaugurated Yewa Political Summit Committee (YPDC), to midwife a united front for the people of Ogun West through a well-attended political summit.
YPDC is a not-for-profit organisation approved and registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) with Certificate Number 160967 dated June 30, 2021.
The Chairman of the Media Sub-Committee of the Summit Organising Committee, Dr. Yemisi Bamgbose, said the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Rahamon Bello, is the chairman of YPDC’s Governing Council. Pastor Obafemi Akinola FCA is the secretary-general.
Also, Justice Mobolaji Ojo has been appointed as chairman of the Political Summit Committee. Secretary is Dr. Morakinyo Ololade.
The purpose of YPDC, The Nation learnt, is to prevent social exclusion and promote social inclusion and community strengthening through supporting, developing and promoting unity within and among Yewa communities and Yewa-based community- managed organisations.
The committee will focus on community development, social inclusion and community-focused services as well as promote effective development of Yewaland.
To enhance and speed up the process of assimilation and harness the current political gains in Yewaland, the summit, which is slated for the later part of this third quarter, will bring groups in Yewaland together in a political summit to chart the way forward.
Yewaland Political Summit Committee was formally established recently by the YPDC with terms of reference as follows: To organise an all-inclusive one-day political summit for Yewaland on the thrust of charting the way to harmony towards the contest for Ogun governorship seat in 2027.
The summit is also aimed at examining in all ramifications, the factors and circumstances which directly, indirectly or remotely, contributed to the inability of candidates of Yewa extraction to clinch the coveted office of the governor of Ogun State since the creation of the state in 1976.
The forum will also agree on a Pan-Yewa agenda to be subscribed to by Yewa sons and daughters aspiring to high political offices.
It will also set up modality for strategic discussion on harnessing and harmonising interests on the political landscape in Yewaland.
Dr. Bamgbose said: “The committee will determine and invite the delegates that will discuss the role effective political leadership can play in addressing the challenge, share experience on how to develop the requisite political harmony that can lead Yewaland to take her rightful position, and reflect on how to build the critical political understanding among players necessary for sustainable political opportunities.
“The committee will also chart the way forward towards implementing the output of such a summit.”
He noted that the YPDC would work together with the Yewa Traditional Council in its activities.
“As such, the roles and interface of YTC members in the drive of Yewaland must be a focus of the summit as well,” Dr. Bamgbose said in an interview.
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