Fayemi’s campaign DG, Bamidele joins Senatorial race

Former member of the House of Representatives and Director General of
Kayode Fayemi Campaign Organisation, Hon Opeyemi Bamidele, has
declared the intention to run for the Senate ahead of the 2019 general
elections.

Bamidele, a former Commissioner for Information in Lagos State will
represent Ekiti Central Federal constituency in the National Assembly.

He made his official declaration at his Iyin Ekiti country home on Wednesday.

On why he decided to run for Senate, Bamidele said he decided to seek
a higher position to be able to impact positively in the lives of the
people.

He added that he was ready to accept whatever modality the party would
adopt to conduct the primary, in line with the doctrine of party
supremacy.

"As a core and incurable APC loyalist, I am comfortable with direct,
indirect and consensus options. The party is supreme and I am ready to
key into whatever option to be applied to pick the candidate in my
district.

"But if my people deem it fit to honour me as a consensus candidate
considering my past and present contributions, I will be eternally
grateful to them.

"My belief is that, whichever option we adopt, people will still have
the opportunity to either vote or make inputs and that is what
democracy is all about; it is participatory.

"I will still remain committed in deeds and actions whether the result
comes out to be positive or negative at the end of the day. Even the
fact that God preserved me after the June 1 shooting incident, where I
escaped death showed that I was specifically made to serve the
people," he stated.

Bamidele stressed that he was relying heavily on his past records in
the House of Representatives to be able to clinch the party's ticket
and win the general election.

"During my time in the Lower chambers of the National Assembly, where
I represented Ado/Irepodun/Ifelodun federal constituency, I did my
best in terms of employment generations for the youths, building of
ICT centres in Ado , Iyin and Igede Ekiti.

"Added to that was the ultra-modern Health Centre I built in Ado
Ekiti, the library in Iyin and Igede Ekiti , among other empowerment
programmes I did that touched the lives of over 75,000 people in just
two local governments.

"In spite of the fact that I represented only two councils then, I
helped many other people from other local governments in the district
and even across the State and that I shall continually do if given the
opportunity this time around," he added.