Hon. (Chief) Olusola Oke

Born on 7^th of April, 1956, in Ilowo a coastal town in Ilaje Local government Area of Ondo State, he attended UNA Primary School, Ode-Ilowo between 1961-1963. Between 1963 and 1973, he engaged in subsistence high sea fishing, a career in which he acquired great fame.

His quest for knowledge compelled him to abandon fishing to the amazement of his fishermen colleagues and returned to Methodist Primary School, Ilepete in 1973 to complete his primary school education. He later proceeded to Methodist Secondary Modern School, Ilepete where he graduated in 1976. He attended Ilaje Grammar School, Atijere, a primary School in Ilaje Local Government where Chief Oke baged his WASC in 1980. Taught briefly as auxiliary Teacher at Happy city college Ayetero, Ilaje Local Government and Methodist High School, Okitipupa.

In October 1981, he was admitted to Ondo State School of Arts and Science, Ikare where he was, when the prestigious University of Ife offered him admission in 1982 to study law.

In 1986 Chief Oke bagged a Degree in Law and proceeded same year to the Nigeria Law School. In 1987, he was called to the Nigeria Bar and enrolled at the Supreme Court as Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Joined the firm of Chief Olufemi Lanlehin, Ikeja, Lagos, in November 1987 from where he moved to Okitipupa in Ondo State and opened a firm of Solicitors, Olusola Oke & Associate on the 14^th of July, 1988. He was later elected into the House of Representatives in 1992 to represent Ilaje/Ese-Odo Federal Constituency. Before this, he was appointed a member, Ondo State Internal Revenue Board. In 2000, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria appointed and inaugurated him as a commissioner representing Ondo State on the Governing Board of NDDC where he served meritoriously for four years. In 2005, he was appointed by the President as member of the National Political Reform Conference. While there, the Ondo State Government appointed him as the Chairman and CEO of Ondo State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (OSOPADEC) a position he held until he voluntarily resigned in October, 2006 to run for PDP ticket for Ondo South Senatorial District. At the primary election, he was returned as candidate having secured not less than 75% of the votes cast in a race involving three (3) aspirants. He also campaigned for the general election and scored 318,000 votes. His victory was aborted by intra-party mischief which was endorsed by the Supreme Court in July 2008.

Before the decision of the Supreme Court upholding his supplant by a loser, he had contested and won party election as the National Legal Adviser of our great party, a position he now occupies. He is a member of the recently constituted Technical committee on Niger Delta.

 

Goke Jatuwase was born to the family of Chief H.O. Jatuwase of the blessed memory in Asogbon denasty of Mahin kingdom in Ilaje over forty decades ago. My mother is a princess from Akeneyen royal family in Mahin in Ilaje. Goke started his elementary school at L.A. Primary School; Mahin later proceeded to L.A. modern School, Ugbo and to Ilaje Grammar School Atijere were I obtained my SSCE certificates. After leaving secondary School, i was employed as a teacher in Community High School, Ode-Mahin when teaching was meant for brilliant students.

From the classroom, i gained admission into the University to study economics at the Ondo State University, Ado-Ekiti (now University of Ado-Ekiti) in 1987. Later proceeded to Federal University of Technology Akure for post graduate studies in computer science in 2004.

Qualifications:

First leaving 1975, Modern three cert. 1978, Secondary cert. 1983, B.Sc (Hons) Economics 1991, PGD computer Science.

Objective:

To contribute immensely to the growth and development of the state, provide services-oriented opportunities for the people of the state and prepare to face more challenges that may arise in the process of moving the state to greater height.

Working Experience:

Federal Training Centre, Kaduna  (NYSC)

Post Held: Personnel Officer   1991- 1992

Lekan Adams & Associates, Lagos. (Architects & Urban Planner

Consultants)

Post Held: Head, Administration & Finance          1993 - 1996

L’atelier Limited, Lagos. (Building & Civil Engineering Contractors)

Post Held: Personal Assistant to the CEO 1996–1998

Boss Computers Limited, Lagos. (Computer & Communication Consultants)

Post Held: General Manager Feb 1998- Aug 1998

Om Oil Industries Ltd, Lagos. (Vegetable Oil Manufacturing)

Post Held: EDP Executive Aug 1998 - 2002

Datacom Nigeria Ltd, Lagos. (Knitting and Printing Industry)

Post Held: Managing Director/C.E.O 2002 till date

Attributes:

An achiever, trustworthy, target driven, hardworking and dedicated with a pleasant disposition. Confident, amiable and good team player. Ability to coordinate others and work under pressure with little or no supervision, to take independent and useful decisions.

GOKE, as fondly called is the President of Marine klub of Ilajeland, a non-governmental association formed by young Ilaje Professionals (Bankers, Accountants, Lawyers, Engineers, and Businessmen) whose main objective is to serve humanity with self contributed resources from members. To date, the association has awarded scholarships to over forty five (45) indigent and brilliant students from Ilaje Local Government Area Secondary Schools, and a total of ten (10) distinguished and successful indigenes from the area have also been honoured.

As an undergraduate in OSUA, Goke was a member of students’ representative council (Parliament) 1989 – 1990 and the Chairman of its probe panel that investigated the financial misappropriation of the students’ union week organizing committee in 1990. In 1989, Goke was appointed as the Chairman of the Audit committee of the Nigerian Economics Students Association (NESA) OSUA chapter.

Member of UPN in 1983 and a youth leader in my ward in the then Ilaje-Ese Odo Local Government. In 1990, a member of SDP even as an undergraduate, Goke was in the team of Evg. Bamidele Olumilua campaign group in the riverrine area. In 2006, Goke found romance with Labour Party and became one of the foremost leaders in Ilaje Local Government.

Intention:

In further consideration of the political future of our people, I have volunteered myself to serve by wanting to contest the office of the CHAIRMAN TO ILAJE LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

My plans for Ilaje people:

1. Education: The standard of education in our area (ilaje) has fallen drastically. Therefore, education will be giving the desired attention. Structures, study materials, manpower will be readily made available in all our schools.
2. Health: Because of the rural nature of the area, adequate health facility is lacking. This menace I will tackle with all seriousness.
3. Environment: No successive government has ever considered given environment any thought, for they did not know that healthy environment breeds good health.
4. Human capital development: For any society to develop the development of human capital is key to its success. These I will solve through my skill acquisition program.

The fact is unassailable that Olori Justinah Malomo Akindele was a woman of substance whose feats the legendry and unprecedented.

 

Born on 21^st august 1939 in Ilado quarters of ode- Idepe into the family of Alfa mamodu Omope Bagudu and Mrs Botibe Seliatu Bagudu. Olori Justinah Malomo Akindele rose to an eviable height by dirt of hard work, having wrestled painstakingly through the turbulence and upheavals of life. Malomo’s father was a muslim, it was rear in those days for an Ikale to be a muslim, however, Omope came in contact with Islam while sojourning in Ilorin as a young man with his father’s friend. Malomo’s mother Botibe had to be converted to Islam after marriage and took the Muslim name Seliatu.

 

Chief Omope Bagudu hailed from the Ilado quarters while Mrs. Seliatu Bagudu descended from the Kulika lineage of the Akinjokun ruling house, okeraye, Idepe – Okitipupa. Justinah Malomo Akindele was the last of her mother’s thirteen children and unfortunately, her mother lost ten of her thirteen children at infancy.

 

Justinah did not start schooling early enough as the last child of her mother, she was a special pet. She remembered her ordeal of having to stop being breastfed, she didn’t stop breast feeding till the age of 10 about the time she started schooling. Her first appearance in school was at Methodist Primary School, Idepe in 1950. Maami as fondly called by the children has expressed her gratitude to Late Chief Timothy Fagbiye who was instrumental to taking her to school when her father refused her. Her father, though was not financially doing badly saw no reasonable need to train a female child. Mama eventually attended Methodist Primary School, Ode – Idepe and she proceeded to the Anglican Modern School, Idepe in 1958. However, hardly has she completed the first year at the Modern School when she was pulled out and bethrotted to Late Oba Reuben Akinlose akindele, the then jagun of Idepe – okitipupa.

 

Olori J.M. Akindele joined the Methodist Church in 1955 while schooling at the Methodist Primary school, Ode – Idepe. Her membership became permanent when she was eventually married to the late Oba R.A Akindele who was also a Methodist.

 

Late Olori Malomo Akindele who today can be described as a shrewd and astute business mongol rose to an enviable feet from a very humble beginning. She started cooking in front of her husband’s house, when dissatisfied with the low level of patronage she switched to the sales of food stuffs at Ayetoro and bought fish for sale in Okitipupa on return trips. She later included the sales of Jewelrey, new clothes and plates. As her business acumen and frontiers expanded she sought the permission of her husband to begin the sales of beer in 1972. To her utmost surprise the then Kabiyesi, her husband gave his blessing and this set the foundation for the establishment of the eventual Malodex Maryland International Hotel. Before establishing the present hotel, she rented a house along hospital road which served as a ‘beer parlour’. Mr Ayo Ogunbufunmi aka Ojiko christianed it MaryLand Hotel. Late Olori Justinah once said that she derives a lot of inspiration from the name and decided that if things improves, she would build an hotel.

 

The beer parlous witnessed tremendous boom and she had to relocate to a more spacious apartment along Akinnubi street, she occasionally invited a live band to play, mostly on weekends and this attracted a lot of customers. As the years rolled by, Maloma gathered enough resources to establish the present Maryland International hotel, the hotel which construction began in 1975, and completed for commissioning on January 7, 1978 is the first limited liability hotel in the whole Ikaleland.

 

Mama remained a veritable force in the Methodist Church. She was among the few members who initiated the need for a new church building at the Ode – Idepe Methodist Church. She personally brought the plan for this new church from Ilu – titun. She became the Asiwaju Obirin Ijo of the same Church in 1989 as one of the first set of Chiefs to be appointed in the Church. She equally played a great roll in the founding of the Methodist Church, Bagudu Local Church, in 1996. For the first five auditorium. She single headedly  masterminded the procurement of the church land, using her influence as a prominent indigene of Idepe – Okitipupa. It should be pointed out that Mama’s immense contribution to the growth and expansion of Methodist Church in this land cannot be measured. She was one of the major sustaining and motivational forces in the Bagudu Methodist Church, until her departure. Towards the end of her life, she released an auditorium for the Redeemed Christian Church of God as a place of worship in her compound. Though she was a staunch Methodist.

 

Olori Maloma Akindele was a foremost socialite despite her educational background and a member of the elite in Ikaleland. Her incurable flair for education made her establish the Maryland International Nursery and Primary School. Lately, she went a step ahead to found the Maryland International College.

 

Mama was a matron to the following organisationa: Ikale Unity Club, Okitipupa, Mercy Club, Golden Club Okitipupa, Esther Kawe Group of Schools, Executive Club Okitipupa, Idepe Youth Forum, Nigeria Boys’s Brigade, Nigeria Football Association okitipupa Chapter (NFA), Performing Music Association of Local Government. Mama was also appointed as a member of the Ondo State Tourist Board in 1983 by ex-Governor Adekunle Ajasiin. She was a foremost distributor of Nigerian Breweries and Guinness for many years, she was also appointed vice president, Ondo State Hoteliers’ Association. She embarked on a holy pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 2099.

 

The demise of Olori Malomo Akindele is truly exit of a giant. Her exemplary life was a special gift to us all. Mama will be missed by all and sundry. ‘Mama Maryland’ as was fondly called walked tall amongst her contemporaries. She was an epitome of beauty, an embodiment of humility and highly elegant.

 

Mama, your exit is really painful but we are constantly reassured that you are at the right hand side of God. Goodnight! Mama rere. O digba o.

 

 

 

 

 

Barr. Moses Orimoloye Akinjiyan was born in 1954 in Odigbo town. His father was Pa Akinjiyan from Orunsero family (the founder) of Odigbo. His mother was Mrs. Deborah Akinjiyan from the  Osunkiyesi family of Odigbo. He attended St. Andrew Primary School Abusoro, via Onisere ward, Odigbo Local Government and Our Savior’s Primary School Odigbo. He also attended St. Gabriel Anglican Secondary Modern School, Odigbo and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

 He is Chartered Secretary, Chartered Administrator and Legal Practitioner. He is a fellow of the English Association of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (F.E.A.S., Gwent) in the United Kingdom (UK) and Licentiate member of the Faculty of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (L.F.C.S., Guild ford) in the United Kingdom.

 Between 1968 and 2006 he worked as Clerk/Stenographer, Confidential Secretary, Executive Secretary, Administrative Manager, Purchasing Manager, State Counselor and Legal Practitioner in diverse private and public establishment. He incorporated more than 50 private and public companies including Araromi/Ayesan Oil Palm  Company PLC, Ondo State, Prime Insurance Brokers, Owena Mass Transportation Company Limited etc and have served as company Secretary/Legal Adviser of more than 20 public and private companies. He participated in the sales of shares of Okitipupa Oil Palm PLC., and Oluwa Glass PLC., on the Nigeria stock Exchange, Lagos. He holds a PHD (Doctorate Award) Honorius Cauca of University of Applied Sciences and Management (USAM) Porto-Novo, Benin Republic.