Ayodele Adefiranye

Festus Ayodele Adefiranye is a former telecommunication engineer, a Nigerian politician and a Member of the House of Representative in the 10th Nigerian National Assembly representing the people of Ileoluji/Okeigbo & Odigbo Federal Constituency. He is from Okeigbo in Ile-Oluji/Okeigbo Local Government of Ondo State. Quotes The experience has been so awesome, though this is not the first time of my legislative activities; I am coming from the state but the experience in the National Assembly is quite different from what is happening in the state assembly. It is about your capacity, what you can do, how you can lobby your colleagues, how you are so determined to make sure that you deliver the dividends of democracy to your people. So I can be here and just sit in my office in a rolling chair and at the end of four years I may have nothing to show for it. So, National Assembly experience is a very good experience that everybody may like to have. Ayodele interview response to his experience so far since one year on seat at the Federal House of Rep. Between June 2023 and now, I have sponsored four motions. The first motion was the one I moved that the road from Ore to Ondo to Akure be dualised and we thank God that my colleagues in the House supported the motion. I am very glad to tell you that the design of the road was included in the 2024 budget. Hopefully, the implementation will also be included in the 2025 budget. My second motion was the one I moved when we had a disaster in Ore, when a tanker trailer got burnt and destroyed several houses in Ore. I motioned to the floor. My prayer then was that NEMA should take it up and try to compensate all the people that were affected by the fire. I am still following up with NEMA to ensure that prayer is attended to. I also moved a motion that the electricity project that they started from Oke Igbo to Awopeju to Igbo Olodumare, which they started years ago and later abandoned should be revisited and completed for the benefit of the people in my federal constituency. That motion has been transferred to the Committee on Electricity which by now should have visited the affected communities. So far, I have sponsored a bill whose importance cannot be overemphasised. The bill is about the establishment of the Federal College of Nursing and Midwifery in Oke Igbo, Ondo State. I realised that there is no Federal College of Nursing in Ondo State. It is my contention that the school, if approved, will be able to produce qualified professionals that will take care of our health facilities. The bill has passed through the first reading, we went through the first reading in October 2023, the bill passed through the second reading in February 2024 and on May 27, 2024 , it went through the public hearing phase which attracted a lot of people from my constituency, including prominent traditional rulers. We are waiting for the report of the committee. I believe the committee will support it when they present their report to the house. Ayodele interview response to his legislative interventions over the year in terms of bills, motions and other contributions I was expecting my N300 million; I’m still expecting it till now. If I tell you the housing allowance they gave us for the four years, you would not believe it. The house that I rented, the money they gave me is not enough to pay for the house I rented. I am saying it on camera; the money they gave us for four years, because they gave us once, is not enough for the one year of the house I rented. But the impression is that, ‘oh, they have collected a lot of money; they have collected this; they have collected that.’ Anyway, I have a principle: I want to satisfy my conscience and God. Ayodele interview response to his #300 million housing allowance The zonal intervention projects are just designed by the executive arm of government to help lawmakers bring physical development to their constituencies and senatorial districts. Lawmakers do not execute the projects; we are not contractors nor do they give us the money to execute the projects as against the erroneous impression that is out there in the public. Our responsibility apart from our statutory responsibility of law making is this zonal intervention project. There is no way if you tell your constituency that you have passed twenty laws, one hundred laws, one million motions, they will tell you that you did not perform. Why? They did not see any physical project and they have forgotten that you are not in the executive arm which has control over these projects but because of the zonal intervention, we appreciate the executive for giving us that opportunity. Ayodele interview response to zonal intervention projects External links External links Category:Politicians from Nigeria Category:Living people