… Hail senator’s grassroots impact, empowerment drive

Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo Central Senatorial District have thrown their weight behind Senator Adeniyi Adegbonmire ahead of the party’s primary, describing his three-year representation as a benchmark for quality legislative performance.

The endorsement came during separate gatherings in Ondo town, headquarters of the Ondo West Local Council Area of the state, and Akure, the state capital, where party leaders hailed the lawmaker’s renewed hope mega empowerment programme.

According to the leaders, the senator had distributed hundreds of working tools and equipment across the senatorial district in recent weeks.

The gesture, they noted, represents a fulfilment of campaign promises that many elected officials often abandon after assuming office, emphasising that motor vehicles, tricycles, motorcycles, generators, deep freezers, sewing machines, hair dryers, and other essential tools were distributed.

Adegbonmire, who serves as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, was also said to have impacted the district in education, health, and infrastructure with payment of school fees for numerous students as well as provision of laptops and study materials and facilitated the construction and renovation of classrooms, libraries, and laboratories, including facilities at Oyemekun Grammar School.

“In the health sector, he has revived and equipped rural health centres, while also improving electricity access through transformer donations and repairs to faulty networks,” they stated.

On the legislative front, the senator was also said to have sponsored bills and motions with direct community impact, including the FUTA Teaching Hospital Bill and a motion on the dualisation of the Akure-Ondo-Ore road.

According to the senator, the cash incentive component of the empowerment programme is specifically targeted at artisans and widows to reinvest into their businesses.

“The cash incentive is for artisans and widows to put back into their businesses. As you can see, it says ‘mega empowerment for renewed hope’. That is the slogan of the president. As a member of the APC and as a member of the National Assembly, I am happy to continue to support Mr President (Bola Ahmed Tinubu) because he’s doing very well,” Adegbonmire stated.

Speaking during an APC stakeholders’ meeting, Alhaji Olawoye, a party leader in the Ondo Central Senatorial zone, had described the Senator’s performance as the kind of representation the APC should celebrate across the country.

On his part, Ayotunde Bally, an APC chieftain from the Ondo West local government area, noted that Adegbonmire’s strength lies in combining strong legislative output with genuine grassroots connection, adding that quality representation is ultimately measured by results rather than political noise.

A former Ondo State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Lola Fagbemi, who had also supervised the state Ministry of Women Affairs, said the APC requires more leaders who understand that governance must positively affect ordinary people, pointing to the scale of the empowerment programme, student support, and assistance to widows, artisans, and small businesses as evidence of leaders committed to genuine development.