… Shocking Revelations About Why He Is Silent On His State Of Origin
People are pointing to the contradictions in the claims of Tolu Odebiyi in the forms he filled before he was appointed as the Chief of staff to ex-governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State
Senator Tolu Odebiyi’s future political aspirations may be heading towards the cliff as more controversies are reportedly trailing the Ogun West Senator’s ancestral lineage, paternity and state of origin.
Odebiyi, a senator currently representing Ogun West Senatorial District, has recently become a subject of debate over his real ancestral root.
Ogun News Express, in its reports, said Odebiyi is claiming to be from Iboro in Yewa area of Ogun West axis of the gateway state and he is believed to be a son of the late Senator Jonathan Odebiyi, who was the Minority Leader in the second republic senate under the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), founded by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
But facts are emerging that Tolu Odebiyi is not from Iboro and that some things are being covered up in relation to his claim that Chief Jonathan Odebiyi was his biological father.
People are pointing to the contradictions in the claims of Tolu Odebiyi in the forms he filled before he was appointed as the Chief of staff to ex-governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State.
In the said form, Tolu Odebiyi said he attended primary and secondary schools in Okemesi in Ekiti State, whereas he was silent on his state of origin.
The question people are now asking is that how did he get to Okemesi that he filled in the form then since his father is from Iboro area of Yewa in Ogun State and the fact that he never had any cause to live in Okemesi.
Late Jonathan Odebiyi |
Chief Jonathan Akinremi Odebiyi, nationalist, politician, educationist and leader of men was born in Ipaja in what is now Lagos State to Daniel Ajibode Odebiyi (Olowo Igbo) and Abigail Solabomi Odebiyi (nee Orebiyi) both natives of Iboro in what would later become Yewa North, Ogun State on the 11th of March 1923.
Tolu Odebiyi was said to have been born in Okemesi on April 23, 1956 as shown in his details in wikipedia.
But at that period, based on the profile of Chief Jonathan Odebiyi, he was sojourning somewhere in Ilaro, Ogun State from where he was appointed Minister of Education, Western Region and a year later became the Minister of Finance at the age of 33 in 1957.
Events watchers maintained that not once was a mention made of Okemesi in the profile of Chief Jonathan Odebiyi, making them to wonder how Tolu Odebiyi could have been born there as his son.
People are now asking that why is Tolu Odebiyi shying away from his state of origin and his ancestral lineage of Ekiti.
All the history, educational career and job career of Chief Jonathan Odebiyi revolved around Lagos and Ogun State from where he would later travel abroad for one reason or the other.
In all the profile of the late Chief Jonathan Odebiyi no mention was made of Okemesi, leaving people to believe that Senator Tolu Odebiyi could not have been his son and that his claim of being from Iboro area of Yewa in Ogun State did not “add up and that he must have resorted to that for political purposes.”
People are now claiming that Tolu Odebiyi’s mother probably had him for another man, who hailed from Okemesi in Ekiti State as against his claim that Jonathan Odebiyi was his father.
They insisted that there was nothing to suggest that the man, Jonathan Odebiyi had anything to do with Okemesi.
“It is clear that Tolu Odebiyi is not actually a son of the late Chief Jonathan Odebiyi and if he is, then he should tell the world how he got to Okemesi in Ekiti.
“If Odebiyi were his father, where did he get his Ekiti lineage from, he should tell the world, who his father is or was. There is no doubt that this man is not from Yewa area of Ogun State and yet he is representing Ogun West at the senate and he wants to go back there in 2023.
“He should allow people from Yewa to represent themselves, he is completely not from that area and he should go back to his home state as he has not even identified with the people of that area since he got to the red chamber,” said a constituent who lives in Ilaro.
It had earlier been reported that some documents and sources have revealed that Odebiyi hailed from Okemesi in Ekiti State contrary to the belief that he hails from Iboro in Yewa area of Ogun West.
It was gathered that he even filled Okemesi in his resume before he started working with former governor Amosun.
“It is now obvious why Odebiyi has not done much for the people of Ogun West since he got to the red chamber and his contradictions have sold him out now.
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