HOW BIMBO ASHIRU GOVERNOSHIP BID RECEIVED A BOOST
Abimbola Ashiru’s genius is exhilarating. It has seen him through the odds of entrepreneurship, until he attained mastery of complexity and creative command of simplicity. He exudes the common core of entrepreneurial depth, tact, and other personal and social abilities which has proven to be the key ingredients of his brilliance and emotional intelligence.
The news took a lot of people by surprise. Not because he is not eminently qualified but Otunba Bimbo Ashiru, a technocrat and the Ogun State Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, did not give any inkling that he would one day seek to succeed his boss, Senator Ibikunle Amosun. Well, he has thrown his hat in the ring. And during the past week, he got a major boost for his governorship ambition. He emerged the consensus candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ogun East senatorial district. Ashiru was picked at an Ijebu Ode meeting, last Wednesday, to fly the flag of the party in 2019 by the Ijebu/Remo Governorship Agenda Elders Forum. Ogun State is at the threshold of what could be its sweetest epoch of statesmanship and politics. Following Otunba Bimbo Ashiru’s endorsement, the nooks, crannies and political circuits of the state are ecstatic with joy.
There is no gainsaying Ashiru is the sweetest thing that ever happened to the state in recent times. A technocrat
of note, Ashiru turned the ministry around and improved its fortunes by remarkable leaps courtesy his ingenious business strategies. Thus his emergence as governorship favorite has thrown the gateway state into euphoric fits of pleasure and expectation. Several illustrious sons of Ogun state have cast their lot with him and are openly canvassing for him.
Foremost international magnates, billionaires and politicians have congratulated him and they are ready to throw their weight behind him. Pundits ascribe this to Ashiru’s brilliance, humility and earnestness in dealings with the electorate, associates and rivals on the political turf. He will battle for the party’s ticket with other aspirants from other zones at the primary. Apart from a groundswell of support from some of Nigeria’s wealthiest businessmen who he is acquainted with and are ready to bankroll the ambition of one of their own, Otunba Ashiru is regarded as one of the closest Ijebu sons to the paramount ruler of Ijebuland, the Awujale, Oba Sikiru Adetona. Add to this, his closeness to Governor Amosun who reportedly is fond of and awed by Ashiru’s ingenuity that has shored up the IGR of the state.