Asiwaju Akeem Olatunji ‘A Leader with Open Heart and Clean Mind’ By: Ridwanullah Adekunle

Engr. Akeem Olatunji cuts a picture of a dutiful politician, a trait that is very scarce among many politicians. Unlike many of his colleagues, whose ambition is to get power and use it selfishly or whose interest is what can accrue to their personal purse,  Asiwaju has modelled a politics of nobility, where lies his main objective, “Service” to the people of Oluyole and beyond. Generally he’s seen as frank politician who always put logic where it suppose to be.

Since he joined politics many decades ago, he had made a giant stride in touching the lives of downtrodden by being responsible and responsive to the yearning of his people. Apart from being an employer of labour, Engr. Akeem Olatunji had severally empowered his people in various ways. One interesting and distinct character of this Oluyole born politician is his loathe for injustice, maladministration
Olatunji’s 11 months in office had bring succor to the people of his district, who in large number have been yearning of real change in their representation for years back.

Many of them see in him as beacon of hope, who has been committed to their course and had at one time or the other provided leadership in every stratum of the communities that made up the Oluyoles. Well connected with his people, Asiwaju believes that disconnecting a leader from the people is like cutting off his oxygen since serving the people is the sole purpose of leadership.

Asiwaju always said his priority in office is to provide his constituency a good representation without been politically, religiously or ethnically bias.