It is very true that there is never a people found in their natural state with a leader who gives meaning to their lives collectively. The people of Ikeja federal constituency of Lagos state need to be grateful to God for giving them a leader who for long as their representative has been giving them qualitative representation and developments in all its physicality.
The representative of the constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. James Abiodun Faleke, is really walking his talk by fighting the symmetric and asymmetric warfare of his people.
His impacts in the provision of palliatives and the needed infrastructure to his people are too numerous to mention since he was voted as the member representing the good people of Ikeja federal constituency in 2011.
There is a saying that history is replete with examples and a recent event in the constituency in which he bought and distributed palliatives to members of his constituency to cushion the effect of the present economic hardship in the country suffices.
Hon. Faleke recently distributed items such as cars, beddings, clothes, generators, building materials and assorted food items, etc to his people. He also commissioned various projects that are germane in improving the lives of the people he represents.
Many see him as irreplaceable. No wonder, because of his love for the Ikeja people whom he is ably representing he turned down all enteritis for him to contest the governorship election of Kogi state held recently.
For a man whose political leitmotives has always been about the people, it is not surprising that he is really dealing in hope for his people. Hon. Abiodun Faleke’s political philosophy is that nobody, no matter his position in the society, should be left behind but must be assisted to live his dream. And that was the essence of his frequent interventionist programmes and projects for his people.
The people have never ever regretted sending him to represent them in the House of Representatives because they see the first day he was elected as the beginning of the end of the days of yore when they were under-represented and the beginning of a new deal where they continue to see quality representation and a positive change in the quality of their life.
Hon. Faleke is a man who takes bullets for his master, President Bola Tinubu, and if really there is any political nomenclature called “The Tinubu Boys”, he would gladly be the first to be mentioned in that list because of his loyalty to Asiwaju. In his political loyalty, which is a trait he learnt from his parents, he never indulges in discarding his master, no matter what.
He meritoriously served as the Secretary of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, a position he put in all his political assets to ensure the victory of his boss, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the President of Nigeria.
Even though many see the bigger role he played in the victory of the president as a warrant for him to be given a bigger role in the present administration’s reward system applications, he never complained but till today remains a loyalist to Mr President and a critical stakeholder in the APC.
Faleke is happy today going forward, as a loyal party man whose loyalty to a cause and his master’s can never be in doubt. The people of Ikeja federal constituency of Lagos state are really having a great deal in his representation. They would continue to have a great deal as long as he remains their leader because his loyalty is always to them who see him as the beginning and the end of their progress as a people.
Hon. Faleke would always remain an apostle of the new type of politics dispensation that deals in facts, evidence and realism because his politics has always been about development the people can see. No wonder, the late Prince Abubakar Audu always described him as an epitome of loyalty ready to take all the bullets for his master.
Today, his politics is full of compassion even though the realities on ground are that the politics of our country is full of painful experiences but he chooses to be intensely compassionate because he sees politics as only for the people, about the people and for the people.
Musa Wada,
Abuja
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