By Odi Okojie Media Team
The clamour for Hon. Odi Okojie to occupy the impending vacant seat of Edo Central Senatorial District has continued to gain traction and buy in across Esan land. This clamour is not born out of sentiments and selfish desire of those supporting his emergence as the Senator representing Edo Central Senatorial District to massage his ego nor assist him to acquire wealth, but borne out of genuine desire to have someone who can amplify the voice of the Esan race in the red chambers and take them to high places.
Hon. Odi Okojie’s foray into politics was a call from his people to advance his philanthropy beyond the scope his personal resources can go in his efforts to alleviate the plight of his people through skills acquisition, empowerment of youths, women and the girl child.
Hon. Okojie has been an emblem of philanthropy, training people in the acquisition of skills; such as fashion designing, hair dressing, welding and fabrication, barbing and other allied skills and at the end of their trainings would gift them starter packs of sewing machines, welding machines, driers and cash that will enable them start off a micro business. Evidence of these empowerment which he has been doing over the years are there in his native Esan North-East Local Government Area and open for verification. These acts of philanthropy, his scholarship scheme which encompasses payment of school fees, WAEC and NECO enrolment fees for indigent students endeared him to the people who approached him to go into politics with a view to seeking elective position to enhance his ability to assist more people in his constituency.
Hon. Odi Okojie who is presently representing Esan South-East/Esan North-East federal constituency in the House of Representatives is a consumate business man, who by dinct of hard work has built his chain of businesses from the scratch. He is a major player in the nation’s oil and gas sector, real estate, hospitality, haulage and logistics.
He has over the years used his hard earned resources for the upliftment of his people who in turn saw his empathic disposition and called him out to represent them in the House of Representatives and he has given a good account of himself since his inauguration in 2023.
The socioeconomic dynamics that are playing out in Nigeria today and Africa in general, requires persons who have empathy and have the milk of human kindness flowing in their veins to represent the people so that they can feel the impact of government, whether they live in the remotest or most rural part of their country.
These and other inexhaustible reasons are firing and propelling the Senatorial ambition of Hon. Odi Okojie.
Let’s support him, as we are aware that if we do, we can go home and sleep, trusting that he can do the needful for Esan people.