Amuwo Odofin Federal Constituency · 2027

Five things I will actually do for you

A manifesto for the House of Representatives, written to be held against me.

What is in this document

Five commitments, each one checkable.

Every commitment in this document is marked to show how it would be pursued: through legislation, through federal intervention, through advocacy, or through community partnership. Where I cannot deliver something directly, I say so.

No.	Commitment	How it is pursued	How you will know
01	Water out of our homes	FederalLegislativeAdvocacyCommunity	A pre-rain inspection report, published every year before the end of April, naming the channels checked in every ward and their condition.
02	Our land and our public assets	LegislativeAdvocacyCommunity	Every answer I receive from a federal agency on these questions will be published in full within thirty days, whether it helps my argument or not.
03	Schools that work	LegislativeFederalAdvocacyCommunity	An annual school report for this constituency: enrolment, teacher numbers, what works and what does not. I compiled reports like this for thirty-five years. I do not intend to stop.
04	Work for our young people	FederalLegislativeAdvocacyCommunity	An annual published count of how many constituents the office helped into training, finance or work. A real number, not a claim.
05	A representative you can reach	CommunityLegislative	A quarterly report to the constituency: what I raised, what I voted for, what I failed to move, and what I am working on next.

Yeside Ilesanmi, seated, in a green sequinned lace dress and a gold gele

A message from me

A manifesto is a promise you can check. This one is short on purpose, so that you can.

I spent thirty-five years in the Lagos State civil service, all of them in education. I began in a classroom. I retired in 2025 as a Director in Education District V, which covers Amuwo-Odofin, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Ojo and Badagry.

For most of my working life, the schools of Amuwo Odofin and the conditions inside them were my responsibility. I did not learn about this place during a campaign.

I am asking to serve you in the House of Representatives. This document sets out five things I will work on, and how.

Before the promises

What a member of the House can actually do

Many campaigns promise things that a federal legislator has no power to deliver. I am not going to do that. A member of the House of Representatives works in four ways, and every commitment in this document is marked to show which one applies.

Legislative

Bills, motions, questions, committee work and oversight of federal agencies. This is the core of the job and the part most campaigns never mention.

Federal intervention

Projects and programmes facilitated through federal agencies and constituency mechanisms. Real, but slower and smaller than campaigns pretend.

Advocacy

Issues taken up with the authorities that actually hold the power, including state and local government. Influence, not control.

Community

What the office can convene or connect through partnership, without pretending government controls it.

Why this page exists

If a candidate cannot tell you which of these four they are using, they are guessing. After thirty-five years inside government, I know the difference, and you are entitled to hold me to it.

Commitment 01

Water out of our homes

From Mile 2 to Satellite Town to Agboju to Festac. This is the one problem that reaches every ward in the constituency.

A Festac street at dusk, with a canal and houses behind — Photo: credit needed (CC BY-SA)

The problem

In July 2026, residents of Festac Extension and Jakande Estate could not leave home or reach the market when flooding hit. One resident described losing a day's trade and pointed at the absence of proper drainage. The state ordered dredging of twenty-eight channels only after the floods arrived.

Amuwo Odofin and Mile 2 are among the areas where blocked channels push water onto roads and into homes. Satellite Town has no centralised sewer at all. This is not one neighbourhood's complaint.

Water that enters a home was allowed in months earlier, by a drain nobody cleared.

What I will pursue

Federal
Pursue Ecological Fund allocation toward drainage and canal works across this constituency, not one part of it.
Legislative
Oversight of the federal agencies carrying responsibility for drainage, erosion and flood control in Lagos.
Advocacy
Press state and local authorities for a published desilting schedule completed before the rains, not after.
Community
A drainage watch run with residents, ward by ward.

How you will know

A pre-rain inspection report, published every year before the end of April, naming the channels checked in every ward and their condition.

Reported on this site.

Commitment 02

Our land and our public assets

This constituency holds more federal land and federal institutions than most. Only a federal legislator can ask what is happening to them.

The problem

In June 2026, residents organised as the Take Back Festac Movement protested against the alleged disposal by the Federal Housing Authority of facilities designated for public use: sewage treatment plants, waterworks, parks and buffer zones. Residents called it a violation of the estate’s master plan.

Festac is the sharpest example, not the only one. This constituency also holds the Trade Fair Complex, industrial land at Kirikiri and public open space in Satellite Town, Agboju and Abule Ado. The same question applies to all of it: who decided, on what authority, and who benefited?

Public land and public infrastructure built for a community are not assets to be disposed of without that community's knowledge.

What I will pursue

Legislative
Move for a House committee inquiry into the FHA's disposal of designated public infrastructure, and press for restoration of what remains a federal responsibility.
Legislative
Require a published register of federal public assets across the constituency, and of every disposal, buyer and legal basis.
Advocacy
Support demands for revocation where a sale breached an approved plan, in any community.
Community
A standing channel between the office and resident associations in every ward.

How you will know

Every answer I receive from a federal agency on these questions will be published in full within thirty days, whether it helps my argument or not.

Reported on this site.

Commitment 03

Schools that work

This is the one I cannot be told about. I ran education administration across the district that covers this constituency and three others.

Pupils at their desks in a public school classroom

The problem

I spent thirty-five years in Lagos State schools, the last of them administering them across District V. What I saw was not mysterious. Classrooms built for forty holding far more. Teachers posted without the subject the timetable needed. Laboratories with no consumables. Sanitation that does not work, which is why some girls stop attending.

None of this is a secret held from government. It is a planning failure repeated yearly by people who never had to stand in the building.

A school is judged by one thing: whether a child who enters at JSS1 can read, calculate and reason by SS3.

What I will pursue

Legislative
Oversight of UBEC and TETFund disbursement, pressing for published school-level data on what was allocated and what arrived.
Federal
Federal education intervention for schools in this constituency: laboratories, libraries, water and working sanitation.
Advocacy
Press Lagos State on teacher posting by subject need, and on working sanitation in every school here.
Community
A published, merit-based scholarship and mentoring scheme run with old students' associations.

How you will know

An annual school report for this constituency: enrolment, teacher numbers, what works and what does not. I compiled reports like this for thirty-five years. I do not intend to stop.

Reported on this site.

Commitment 04

Work for our young people

One of West Africa's largest wholesale markets sits inside this constituency. Too few of the jobs in it belong to people who live here.

Market stalls, umbrellas and traffic seen from above

The problem

Youth unemployment has been raised repeatedly as a constituency concern, and linked publicly to the insecurity residents report. Young people here are not short of enterprise. They are short of capital, of recognised skills, and of a route into the formal economy that is already operating on their doorstep.

The Lagos Trade Fair Complex in Satellite Town is a primary West African hub for wholesale trade. It is an economic asset sitting inside the constituency, and the question of who benefits from it is a legitimate one to put to federal authorities.

A young person in Amuwo Odofin should not have to leave Amuwo Odofin to find work.

What I will pursue

Federal
Connect constituents to federal skills, enterprise and student finance programmes, with an office that actually helps people apply.
Legislative
Support legislative measures that widen small business access to credit and reduce the cost of formalising a business.
Advocacy
Press federal authorities on how the Trade Fair Complex is managed, and on what share of its employment and trading opportunity reaches people who live here.
Community
Bring employers, training providers and young people into the same room, in this constituency, at least twice a year.

How you will know

An annual published count of how many constituents the office helped into training, finance or work. A real number, not a claim.

Reported on this site.

Commitment 05

A representative you can reach

The complaint I hear most often is not about any single project. It is that people cannot find their representative between elections.

Mile 2 station and the expressway, busy with buses and traders — Photo: credit needed (CC BY-SA)

The problem

Representation that appears at election time and disappears afterwards is the pattern people describe across this constituency. It is also the easiest of the five to fix, because it costs almost nothing and depends entirely on whether the person elected chooses to do it.

If you cannot reach me, I am not representing you. I am only holding the seat.

What I will pursue

Community
A constituency office open on published days, staffed by people who live here.
Community
Monthly surgeries, rotating between communities, with dates published in advance.
Legislative
My voting record and the motions I sponsor, published quarterly, in plain language.
Community
A single published phone number and address that does not change.

How you will know

A quarterly report to the constituency: what I raised, what I voted for, what I failed to move, and what I am working on next.

Reported on this site.

Accountability

How I will report back

Promises are easy in January. This page is what makes the rest of the document checkable after the election is over.

On what I am not promising

I am not promising to fix every road, build a hospital or end unemployment. A federal legislator who tells you that is either misleading you or does not understand the job. What I am promising is to use the four powers on page five properly, and to show you the working.

A quarterly report to the constituency, published and circulated, covering what I raised, how I voted, and what did not succeed.
Monthly surgeries rotating between communities, with dates published a month ahead.
An annual account of every commitment in this document, marked as done, in progress, or not achieved.
Full publication of official responses I receive on the Festac asset question and on drainage.
A named contact in the constituency office responsible for constituent cases, reachable on a published number.

Our constituency

Amuwo Odofin

This constituency holds a planned federal housing estate, a major wholesale trade complex, working-class neighbourhoods, industrial land and creek-side settlements. Festac is the most visible part of it, not the whole of it. Any representative who speaks only for one estate is not representing this constituency.

Eleven wards

Amuwo
Amuwo-Odofin Housing Estate, Mile 2
Festac I
Festac II
Festac III
Ibeshe
Igbologun
Ijegun
Irede
Kirikiri
Satellite

Three of the eleven are Festac. Eight are not. Each is a different place with a different problem, and each is entitled to the same representative.

322,600

registered voters in Amuwo Odofin at the 2023 general election.

Source: INEC, 2023 general election

57,530

of them were accredited on polling day. Fewer than one in five.

Source: INEC, 2023 general election

637

polling units across 11 wards.

Source: INEC result viewing portal (IReV), 2023

That second figure is the whole argument. More than eighty per cent of registered voters here did not vote in 2023. Nobody came to ask them. This seat is not won by converting opponents. It is won by giving people a reason to turn up.

One constituency, many places

A representative who knows only the estate does not know the market. A representative who knows only the market does not know the creek. I have lived here for more than forty years and administered its schools. I intend to serve all of it.

Hold me to these.

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