By ISAAC OLUSESI
Nationnewslead report that The kinds of Thomas Olaleye Ogungbangbe, Ph.D are a rare breed, far and in – between. He’s one discernible mind, stirring the electoral firmaments of Nigeria in his own way like the current of hurricane winds and waves revitalize nutrient supplies. He’s so friendly to rely on for empathy, trust, and particularly, budgetary support to the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) nation wide in the general elections scheduled for Saturday.
Of course, yes. Ogungbangbe does step outside his familiar business circles. He appreciated that the APC candidates for the elections have had long time relationships with him, satiating his lifeblood; and the altruistic man gave a humble quota in millions of naira to the candidates’ electioneering dive to ease triumphant wins at the polls. And pleasingly, the candidates know that after electoral victory, it’s incumbent to deploy requisite potentials to create pragmatic footprints on the socio-economic development of their respective constituencies, and significantly, constructive growth and development that take their states of origin to greater heights.
The hints about the impetus Ogungbangbe’s consistently immense support and help to communities and bodies corporate as well as any well meaning motives, were picked at a chain of events where he gave 1,000 bags of 50kg rice and 1,000 bags of beans in all the local government areas of Osun State.
The string of excitements in electoral politics, strewn with financial challenges that could implode the chances of winning in public elections is meaning making to Ogungbangbe but places no burden on him. It’s just within his domesticity of giving; for him, giving is a revolving door. He donated teeming money to the APC Ijesa North & South candidates and kept faith with them on the road to electoral victory, assisting to navigate the election campaign landscape assuaged and reinvigorated. Forward and on track.
Ogungbangbe is unique in more ways than one. The distinction is that the largesse made to the election candidates of APC was simultaneously replicated in many Federal Constituencies across the nation, the North, East and West bound where his good friends in APC are set for the Saturday general elections. He’s not done yet. For Ogungbangbe, security is more than offering extra pair of eyes and ears to feel safe and secure, he made monetary contributions to the more strategic AED (Automatic External Defibrillator) and CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) security at the APC presidential campaigns. He says, security generally is the backbone of political campaign safety.
The pressure on Ogungbangbe to re- join politics has not diminished. He’s known for his political savvy. But he seems to be saying, though he has a good understanding and practical knowledge of politics, politicking and elections, his image as a shrewd businessman and boardroom guru who owns blue chip stakes in business, requires tenacity to outlive competitors in the same investment world. For now, what does he do? The hidden holder of wealth leverages assistance to progressive politicians, desiring higher elective posts as he believes in their victory at elections.
For Ogungbangbe, a member of the prestigious Lagos Country Club, Nigeria, politics is not entirely a strange bed fellow. He was in the campus politics in his student days; and has been through Alliance for Democracy, AD, Action Congress, AC, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and now APC; at one time, a House of Representative aspirant in Ijesa North.
Outside politics, Ogungbangbe has continually impacted greatly on Nigerians and Nigerian communities athwart ethnics, religions and party affliations. He has to his credit quite a lot of scholarships offered to indigent students, and renovated classrooms, electrification projects, Christian sanctuaries and Muslim mosques, denominations crosswise, were donated to different communities, including Iloko-Ijesa, Iragbiji, Osogbo, Badagry, among others and at different times. His N300million worth of road constructed, linking Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, in conformity with the social responsibility policy of his company, other projects spread across Authentic Nigeria Football Supporters’ Club, VCN Sports International Table Tennis Court for RCCG Traffic Squad speak volumes of the man.
Ogungbanbe’s pecuniary aid to the APC candidates, length and breadth of Nigeria, is a two – way street that holds the aided accountable to the constituencies, the electors, after victory and also gets Ogungbangbe, the aider or aide increased recognition and fulfilment, feeling good or satisfied that he has had productive aftermath on other people; and it symbiotically confers on him the myth of invincibility of perspectives outside his usual aviation networks that also boosts the ogle of his colleague business leaders to his personal social net worth.
The reciprocity here is getting the assisted and the assister more into concord junctional rhythm.
And that’s the splendour and grandeur of good relationships.
OLUSESI writes at the Foot of the Most Merciful. Most Gracious. All-knowing.
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