Why Constituents Will Work Against Femi Gbajabiamila’s 5th Term in NASS

Popular House of Representatives Leader, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, may have regretted flaunting the Mercedes Benz G-Wagon, he gifted his wife, Salamatu, on her 50^th birthday recently.

Immediately the video and pictures of the presentation, filtered out, the web began to buzz with trolls of curses from Nigerians, that, in the face of staggering poverty among the people, and at a time the image of the National Assembly is very poorly-rated; how can a lawmaker, who is very stingy to his constituents, be flaunting a whopping N100million worth of SUV to his wife, while his constituents are wallowing in poverty. His quest to remake the well-applauded Davido style, who gifted his lover, Chioma, an ‘Assurance’ porsche car, has just back-fired big time. 

It was like hell was waiting to get loose, as many descended on him seriously on the social media. Someone said,it is ’ unguarded arrogance with tax payers’ money’, shows gross lack of maturity and wisdom on the part of this public office holder, who appears deliberately insensitive to the mood of the nation, and the supposed ideology of his party.’

Since then, the cascade of flaks has crushed him to serious mental torture. We hear he is now floundered and wishing he could reverse what has been done. For the extravagant Femi, being in government since 2003, he has made tons of money, and like a protruding pregnancy, he couldn’t hide it, as he owns several luxury items money can buy; from beautiful homes scattered around Nigeria, and posh places in the world, to many fast cars, adorning the garages of those mansions. Having made all these riches, he still wants to remain in power, after spending four back-to-back terms in the Federal House of Representatives, he is still scheming to return the same chamber for a 5^th time; a move his constituents have vowed to thwart.

A socio-political group, under the aegis of Surulere United,among others,recently kicked against the fifth term agenda of the House Leader of Nigeria’s 8th House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, to represent Surulere I Federal Constituency, in the forthcoming general election. They said emphatically in their averment, “We are saying no to the fifth term agenda of Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, we don’t want it and we are also using this medium to urge All Progressives Congress leaders in the state that sixteen years is enough and 20 years will be too much for one man from single ward. “We have so many educated and intelligent people and above all Surulere is a civilized environment. On this ground, we want to appeal to our party leaders to organized a fair play ground where all aspirants will be given opportunity to exercises their franchise during primaries.’’

Source: UrbanLife Magazine