ROAD TO 2023: MUTIU ‘LIVING MKO’ OKUNOLA TO RUN FOR HOUSE OF REPS; CALLS HIS PREVIOUS TASK TO COMPEL TINUBU ‘A JOB DONE’, DROPS IMPORTANT HINT FOR HON. FALEKE
By Oki Samson Trek Africa Newspaper
Hon. Mutiu Kunle Okunola
The Convener of Tinubu Non-Negotiable (TNN) 2023, Hon. Mutiu Okunola has shown interest to vie for the Federal House of Representatives representing Ikeja Federal constituency. He made this known during a press conference where he expounded on the diverse nature of Nigeria, his task for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to run for presidency, and what he wants Hon. James Faleke to do next.
Declaring his political intention, Hon. Mutiu Okunola stated: ‘Politics is not for semantics. It is strategic. I am a grassrooter. I am closer to the needs of my people. Legislature is not limited because I have been using my resources.
On how he plans to work when he gets the seat, ‘I am going to parade a team of legal luminaries who will work assiduously for bills that will help our people. I will set in my office one of my agenda which is to include social infrastructure. I will do head count or inventory of Ikeja including the NBA, NUJ, ad other professional bodies so that I can give them inclusive government. I will look at their needs and revert it to my legal team so that they can prepare bills that will favor them. Part of my social infrastructure is for women and children. some of the people we see outside are miscreants lost their breadwinners or their breadwinners lost their bread making them not to complete their education. A primary goal is to assist the challenged. The children must go to school instead of begging on the street or becoming miscreants.’
Hon. Mutiu Kunle Okunola
‘Once we have done the headcount, I am going to provide accommodation for the destitute. Then I will use direct labour to make our people get to work. I will tell them to bring quotation to do road repairs, I don’t have to wait for LGA to do that. I will introduce the youths to vocation. Tailors will sew the clothes for children in primary school. I don’t have to go out to do printing of exercise books, school feeding etc. Ikeja is cosmopolitan not rural so we have to do something that our people can relate with’ he revealed to Trek Africa Newspaper. Other areas he desires to concentrate on is the creation of agricultural resettlement to provide financial assistance to marketpeople to bring farm produce and sell at subsidized rate to people under Ikeja Federal Constituency.’
‘I will embark on refurbishing our primary schools. I will first take inventory like I said of all our assets, tehn see what we can do to them. Also, Lagos is a state of aquatic splendor, governments don’t understand that asphalt is not relevant for us. We have to do concrete. The one I did here by myself is N23 million. If it spoils, it is just to get cement to patch it unlike the asphalt which the hole will keep getting bigger and it spoils regularly.’
Hon. Mutiu Kunle Okunola
Explaining his methodology, Hon. Okunola said now MKO is non-negotiable: ‘I decamped because I desire to serve my people and you can only do that in a political party that is relevant. When I came into APC, my job was to get Tinubu to contest and now the job is done, Tinubu has come out but I will not be the only one to vote for him.
Now on my own ambition, I am letting the delegates know that the person you want to follow must be somebody who can create wealth. So for overwhelming victory in 2023, MKO is non-negotiable. I have paid the dues. We already have the votes on ground.
He urged Hon. James Faleke not to bow to political jobbers advising him to run for the same slot for a 4th term. ‘For Faleke to want to be speaker and he is seeking the 4th term, he should know that it is not possible because we can’t have Tinubu as President and still have him as Speaker as someone coming from Lagos. you can’t repeat the same class four times, it doesn’t show progress. So I will tell my boss, Faleke that this 4th term is irrelevant, he rather go in as Senator or Chief of Staff to our incoming President so he can work with him without distraction. Asiwaju needs him more than he wants to be doing in Ikeja. Everybody knows him well with Asiwaju so it is better for him to work fully well with Asiwaju. Coming in for 4th term is irrelevant to his staus and person. Work holistic with Asiwaju because he is not a greenhorn to governance which is the kind of person we need for our leader, Asiwaju’, Trek Africa Newspaper gathered.
Hon. Mutiu Kunle Okunola
On his job for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the living MKO said: ‘Basically we want unity and fairness, we don’t want anybody to use the power of incumbency because once you are a president, you have the capacity to use the power but you are not helping yourself as you can’t hold power to infinity and you will be providing bad precedence. If the military acknowledges that there is equity and stopped all other geopolitical zones except Southwest from competing in 1998, then why should democracy feel unconcerned?’
‘We have to uphold the power of rotation because I believe in Nigeria before believing in party and individual. I have foreseen that every Dick and Harry wants to serve as President but it is all about selfish interest and stomach infrastructure. They don’t even understand the basics that bind us and the sacrifices made by our founding fathers for us to get here. They came in and benefitted and became reckless and don’t want to leave’, he concluded.
