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My chairman House committee on Student Loans & Scholarships Hon. Ifeoluwa Ehindero (Akoko) and MD @NELFUND my Oga @AkintSawyerr I think a bill that automatically forgives any NELFUND loans for students graduating with first class should be put into motion. Who would like to join me in drafting this bill ? Come into the DM…….

🔈🔈PUBLIC STATEMENT A lie is circulating that I sabotaged Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour’s @GRVlagos 2023 Lagos governorship campaign. That I was “an insect feeding off the movement from inside and that I collected money for security on Election Day and failed to spend it”. All of that is false! I did not manage any campaign accounts. I was not given funds for security on Election Day. I did not take money meant for security and refuse to spend it. I donated. I raised funds for the candidate. Led rallies across Lagos and spent long hours working tirelessly, while neglecting my businesses to assist the campaign. I worked as a non-paid member of his campaign. I believed in my friend’s political journey, as I had done since 2014, including when he ran for Ikeja local government chairman under the KOWA party. For all of that effort, there is silence. As Yorubas say “Àìmoore ló ń pa ọrẹ”. Ingratitude is what kills friendship. “Eni a ṣe lóore tí kò dúpẹ́, ó dàbí ẹni tó jí ni lówó lọ” - the person you help who shows no gratitude, is no different from someone who robbed you. In 2023 I spent my own time and money. I volunteered at the Labour Party office. Assisted the party with operational materials and top tier election engineering to achieve an outcome in Lagos. I helped coordinate polling agents. I printed shirts. I trekked streets. On both Election Days, I went out to the polling units as a supervisor in Eti-Osa, ensuring PU agents had the confidence to function. I posted live from the GRV situation room. I asked supporters to move to collation centres to protect results. Was boots on the ground leaving no stones unturned. After the election I said publicly that we would challenge the outcome in court. Months later I still publicly saluted the campaign team’s work. For me it was Active Citizenship at its finest! One that many even in the opposition admired greatly. On 25 February I had my nose broken, was nearly killed by unknown thugs, and ended up in a police cell on false allegations in the heat of a contentious election. Those allegations were dismissed with the intervention of the public, close friends, and public officials, including foreign ambassadors. I returned for the 18 March gubernatorial poll and did the same work again. That is the public record. It is on my timeline. People who were in those rooms and on those streets know it. A tweet with no evidence, no date, no document, no named act of sabotage, and no proof that I handled campaign money is not a fact. It is a story told after the fact because my political views today are no longer convenient for some. Disagreeing with someone in 2026 does not rewrite what they did in 2023. I do not need to pretend I was a bystander then in order to hold different conclusions now. I was there. I paid a price. I donated. I raised money. I worked without pay. I supervised polling units in Eti-Osa. I did not sabotage the campaign. I did not handle the money. Any candidate I chose to support obtains 100% investments from me in time and effort. What is deeply regrettable is the reluctance of the person at the centre of these rumours to come out and debunk them. Silence has allowed a lie to travel farther than the truth. I will equally be following up with a legal suit to demand a retraction, alongside a civil suit against those propagating these falsehoods. Character assassination is not commentary. Those who published and amplified this lie will be required to answer for it. Anyone with actual evidence should publish it. Until then, this remains what it is “an allegation without facts” driven by toxicity. Akin Olaoye