Hon. Bayo Osinowo. |
Before
the nomination of the current senator representing Lagos East Senatorial
District in 2011, he was a Permanent Secretary and was nominated by Hon. Bayo
Osinowo after former Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora refused a return to the senate
and the seat became vacant.
When
the leaders of the party were scouting for who will represent the East and
needed someone who had some form of pedigree, it was Hon. Bayo Osinowo who
stood up to recommend that the then Per,.Sec, Land be sent to represent the
zone as he had played a particular vital role in that administration to merit
such an honour (the words of Bayo Osinowo).
Fast-farward
to 2018, the Senator representing Lagos East, Gbenga Ashafa has done creditably
well, no doubt, but that seat is not his family nor constitutional inheritance
and must give other people the opportunity to via for same position as it is
customary in a political party system where positions are taken turn-by-turn by
members of the party, meaning that the position being occupied today by Gbenga
Ashafa is not hereditary, so, other party men and women must be allowed the
freedom to contest to occupy any position of their choice, be it the same he
occupies now.
What
baffles some of us is the reason why there are many attacks on the person of
Hon. Bayo Osinowo, Member representing Kosofe Constituency 1 in the Lagos State
House of Assembly because he has indicated interest to contest for a position
he has rights to contest for as enshrined in the constitution for citizens of
Nigeria and they claim he is not popular enough?
Even
when Bayo Osinowo has not at any point in time responded to any of the attacks
being meted out to him on a daily basis on Social Media, they still do not
understand the fact that a Golden fish has no hiding place and the fact that
there is no stopping a man whose time has come.
The
question some of the residents of Lagos East Senatorial District should be
asking these people peddling all these lies and falsified informations against
Bayo Osinowo is, WHY THEY ARE HAVING SLEEPLESS NIGHTS OVER A MAN WHO DOES’T
EVEN KNOW THEY EXIST? If they are important to the political ambition of Bayo
Osinowo, maybe he would have responded to them, but his silence should tell
them that of a truth, TWO PEOPLE DO NOT RUN MAD AT THE SAME TIME.
You
claim he is not exposed and at the same time, say he has a Diploma and a
Masters Degree and I ask, was he taught to obtain these degrees in his home as
a student? What is the yardstick for measuring exposure if not through
education and he is still not exposed in your own sight?
Look,
it doesn’t matter how much you vilify him, this is his time and no one can stop
a man who has the SEAL OF GOD upon him and this is the fate of Bayo Osinowo,
aspirant for the Lagos East Senatorial seat and again, is Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu not a big enough political institution to quality anybody with the
highest qualifications in Political Science in Nigerian and in Africa?
Hon. Bayo Osinowo. |
SHORT PROFILE OF HON. BAYO
OSINOWO.
Hon. Bayo Osinowo was
born in mid-50’s into the family of Late Alhaji Rabiu Osinowo of Odo-Egbo in
Ijebu –ode and Alhaja Moriamo Taiwo Osinowo.
A successful
politician and contributor to our nascent democracy, Hon. Osinowo attended St.
Augustine primary School, Ijebu-Ode, and Isoyin Grammar School, Isoyin. He
worked briefly in Lagos with the Federal Ministry of works as Land officer
between 1977 and 1979 before travelling to Italy for further studies.
He attended University
of Perugia, Italy for the Italian Language course after which he proceeded to
lnstituto per Geometra Rome ltaly (for Building Technology) and Urbaniana
University Rome Italy for specialization (Masters).
On his return to
Nigeria, he set up NITAL Ltd. (Nigeria Italian Company) and NIMCO Ltd.in 1986.
Hon. Osinowo started
active politicking in the Second Republic as a prominent Youth Chairman of the
ruling party, when the late Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Abiola was the state
Chairman of the party. Hon. Osinowo was also a member of defunct Social
Democratic Party (SDP) and he played a prominent role in the development and
success of the party as well as the election of M.K.O. Abiola that was
annulled. He participated fully in actualization of June 12 mandate that led to
his detention with Chief M.K.O. Abiola and other progressives throughout the
regime of late Gen. Sanni Abacha’s.
After his release
from prison and he return to democratic rule, he joined the Alliance for
Democracy (AD) that metamorphosed to Action Congress(AC) later to Action
Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and now All Progressives Congress (APC).
Hon. Osinowo declared
his intention to contest for the Lagos House of Assembly in year 2003 and
emerged the candidate of the AD. He contested and won the Kosofe Constituency 1
seat. He got re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2015.
Since 2003, he has
been the chairman, House Committee on Lands.
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