[OPINION BY TUNDE OLUSUNLE] Leke Abejide: A home in Yagba, a heart in Okunland | TheCable
Egbe, a major town in Yagba West local government area , Kogi state is host to a number of historic institutions. The famous Sudan Interior Mission Hospital was established in the community in 1952, by the iconic Canadian missionary and surgeon, Frederick George Campion. The medical facility has since metamorphosed into the Evangelical Churches Winner All, Hospital and remains a major health institution, serving patients from the contiguous Kwara, Kogi, Ekiti, Ondo and Niger states.
Olu Obafemi, emeritus professor of English and Dramatic Arts and 2018 recipient of the Nigerian National Order of Merit , is also an alumnus of Titcombe College, Egbe. So was Pius Adesanmi, the Canadian-Nigerian distinguished professor of literature and public intellectual who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash of 2019.
At the last tally, full professors from Isanlu, headquarters of Yagba East, for instance, were 40 in number. In recent years, unfortunately, globally respected professors like Pius Adebola Adesanmi from the same community, very painfully, passed on, depleting the numbers. Pioneer vice chancellor of Bingham University, Abuja, Felix Anjorin, another distinguished professor from Isanlu, also departed a few years ago.
By the time Abejide announced his decision to contest for the Yagba House of Representatives seat with the approach of the 2019 general elections, he had become something of a household name. The fact that he opted to fly the flag of the rather strange and unknown African Democratic Congress was no obstacle.
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