Comrade 'Deji Adebayo: The Ojodu politician who aspires to be Nigeria’s President someday
“My long term goal is to become Nigeria’s president and see the Nigeria of our dreams come to reality."
When Deji Adebayo was born in the 1980s, Ojodu was a developing town without tarred roads and large supermarkets. The town, undivided, also did not have its own traditional rulers. That began to change when the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, installed a traditional ruler in Ojodu Abiodun around the turn of the millennium. Today, according to Adebayo, Ojodu has about five units: Yakoyo Obayomi, Yakoyo, Ojodu Kudoro, Ojodu and Ojodu-Abiodun.
“I grew up in Ojodu,” Adebayo told Ikeja Record in a recent interview. His parents were both educators. His father was the pioneer head teacher of Ojodu Abiodun Community Primary School, who also served as the pioneer Secretary to the Ojodu Community. But Adebayo does not describe himself as an Ojodu indigene with royal benefits.
“I am from Ekiti State,” he said. “But I was born and brought up here and I’m one of the young people who can tell the history of Ojodu, not …
