Constituents That Return Experienced Mps Are Better Represented— Dogara

For legislators to represent optimally and influence development
in their constituencies, the electorate must support them for
multiple terms in the National Assembly, speaker of the House of
Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has said.

Speaking in Oko town, Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo
State, at the final funeral thanksgiving for Pa Sunday Akanji
Odebunmi, the father of a member of the House of Representatives
and chairman of the House Committee on Information and National
Orientation, Hon. Segun Odebunmi, the speaker also noted that most
lawmakers who have served multiple terms in the National Assembly
have a better chance to become principals and even presiding
officers.

Hon Dogara showered encomiums on Hon Odebunmi whom he described
as a committed member of the House whose interest is the
development of the country and urged his constituents to give him
support by reelecting him in the 2019 elections.

He said, “The Hon member representing this constituency is a
brother, a wonderful member of the House of Representatives and he
heads one of the important committees of the House and I will urge
the people of this constituency to continue to support him. I have
said elsewhere that a member is like wine, it is said of wine that
it tastes better with age. If he was able to do some things during
his first tenure, his second tenure is better than the first and
likewise, if he is given support, his subsequent sojourn into the
parliament will produce better results.

“I guess the people of my constituency have been smart to
understand this and therefore, they took me to the House for the
third time, it was only on the third time that I became speaker.
So, if you want to produce leaders in the National Assembly, it
means that once you have a member that is doing his best, you have
to support him and I tell you that before time, he can be leading
the House and the fruits of his representation will be made
manifest.”

Speaking on behalf of the entire members of the House, he joined
the family in celebrating the life of the departed Pa Odebunmi,
noting that “he lived a life that touched so many people as an
accomplished community leader, a philanthropist, he was someone who
was very selfless…. if you look at the fruits that Baba has left
behind, beginning from our own dear brother, who is a member
representing this constituency in the National Assembly and his
siblings that are here, you will be left with no option than to say
that Baba lived a quality life and we can see that reflected in the
fruits that he left behind.”

On his part, the Oloko of Okoland, Oba Solomon Adegoke Akiyoka
Oyeyode III, expressed gratitude to the speaker for visiting his
domain and urged him and other visitors to take advantage of the
vast agricultural land in the area to invest.

Also present at the event were the deputy speaker of the House
of Representatives, Hon Yussuf Sulaimon Lasun, Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, House Leader Hon Femi
Gbajabialima and other members of the House.

For legislators to represent optimally and influence development
in their constituencies, the electorate must support them for
multiple terms in the National Assembly, speaker of the House of
Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has said.

Speaking in Oko town, Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo
State, at the final funeral thanksgiving for Pa Sunday Akanji
Odebunmi, the father of a member of the House of Representatives
and chairman of the House Committee on Information and National
Orientation, Hon. Segun Odebunmi, the speaker also noted that most
lawmakers who have served multiple terms in the National Assembly
have a better chance to become principals and even presiding
officers.

Hon Dogara showered encomiums on Hon Odebunmi whom he described
as a committed member of the House whose interest is the
development of the country and urged his constituents to give him
support by reelecting him in the 2019 elections.

He said, “The Hon member representing this constituency is a
brother, a wonderful member of the House of Representatives and he
heads one of the important committees of the House and I will urge
the people of this constituency to continue to support him. I have
said elsewhere that a member is like wine, it is said of wine that
it tastes better with age. If he was able to do some things during
his first tenure, his second tenure is better than the first and
likewise, if he is given support, his subsequent sojourn into the
parliament will produce better results.

“I guess the people of my constituency have been smart to
understand this and therefore, they took me to the House for the
third time, it was only on the third time that I became speaker.
So, if you want to produce leaders in the National Assembly, it
means that once you have a member that is doing his best, you have
to support him and I tell you that before time, he can be leading
the House and the fruits of his representation will be made
manifest.”

Speaking on behalf of the entire members of the House, he joined
the family in celebrating the life of the departed Pa Odebunmi,
noting that “he lived a life that touched so many people as an
accomplished community leader, a philanthropist, he was someone who
was very selfless…. if you look at the fruits that Baba has left
behind, beginning from our own dear brother, who is a member
representing this constituency in the National Assembly and his
siblings that are here, you will be left with no option than to say
that Baba lived a quality life and we can see that reflected in the
fruits that he left behind.”

On his part, the Oloko of Okoland, Oba Solomon Adegoke Akiyoka
Oyeyode III, expressed gratitude to the speaker for visiting his
domain and urged him and other visitors to take advantage of the
vast agricultural land in the area to invest.

Also present at the event were the deputy speaker of the House
of Representatives, Hon Yussuf Sulaimon Lasun, Minister of
Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, House Leader Hon Femi
Gbajabialima and other members of the House.