Lagos West residents tongue lash Senator Yayi over COVID-19 donations

Admin l Thursday, April 09, 2020

LAGOS, Nigeria – The purported N50 million Naira cash gifts by Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola to people of his Lagos West Senatorial District has turned out to be a false after all.

Yesterday, the social media was agog with news of Senator Solomon Olamilekan’s purported donation of N50 million to be shared among residents of his senatorial district as palliative for the lockdown occasioned by the COVID 19 pandemic ravaging almost all of the entire globe.

Investigations carried out by our team revealed that though money was shared among the twenty eight local governments constituting his senatorial district, the amount was a far cry from the N50 million said to have been expended by the Senator.

The purported N50 million naira, if divided by the 28 local councils in his district ought to be N1.7 million naira per local government, if you divide this by seven which is the average number of wards in each local governments you get N255,000 per ward.

Virtually all the chairmen of APC local government branches in the senatorial district disclosed that the amount of one hundred thousand naira was sent to each council to be shared to the seven wards making it about N14,000 per ward. This is what Senator Yayi is alleged to have up with for the five years he has been Senator.

Residents of the local governments are wondering how a hundred thousand naira could be shared to thousands of party faithfuls in each local governments, not to talk of the entire populace.

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They have therefore unanimously resolved to reject the amount which if added together is a nothing but a paltry N2.8m, a far cry from the N50m announced to the world. For the electorates, this act by the Senator Yayi is not new. According to them, since assumption of office, the Senator has never deemed it fit to recourse back to his constituents, neither had he initiated any tangible project that would benefit them.

“Last Yuletide, instead of sharing Christmas gifts to us who worked for his re-election, he was busy gallivanting the entire Ogun State, sharing money and gifts to them as if they’re the ones that elected him. Let him come back, we’ll show him the way to Ogun State”, one of the chairmen stated.

Another Chairman, pleading anonymity, alleged that Senator Solomon Adeola Olamilekan popularly called Senator Yayi has never been straight forward in his dealings. “If you may recall, Yayi claimed that he is from Ishaga Orile, but the indigenous Ishaga people disowned him, he later claimed Ilaro and has now built a house in Abeokuta. Very soon, he’ll claim he’s from there as well.”

Along the same vein, party faithfuls who claimed to have worked for the Senator claimed that he is evasive and too cunning for them. “Can you believe that the Senator has over ten telephone lines. Call him on any of them and you won’t get him no matter how many times you try. Not only that, he is fond of failing in his promises. Ask any leader in his senatorial district, they’ll tell you the type of person he is,” one claimed.

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True to the claim, a high ranking party stalwart in his constituency also elaborated on Yayi’s alleged inconsistency and lack of decency. According to the leader, most party leaders do not trust the Senator again because on several occasions he has made promises of financial assistance upon which he reneged.

“Senator Yayi is tight-fisted. Only God knows what he does with the huge allowances he collects on our behalf”, the party stalwart, a prominent politician in Badagry said.