Babajide Omoworare
Babajide Omoworare | |
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Senator for Osun East | |
In office 6 June 2011 – 9 June 2019 | |
Preceded by | House of Representatives of Nigeria |
In office 3 June 1999 – 5 June 2007 | |
Constituency | Ifako-Ijaiye |
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Born | Babajide Christopher Omoworare 31 October 1968 Ilesa, Western State, Nigeria (now in Osun State) |
Political party | All Progressives Congress (2013–present) |
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Relations | Adesoji Aderemi (Grandfather) |
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Babajide Christopher Omoworare (born 31 October 1968) is a
Background
Babajide Christopher Omoworare was born on 31 October 1968 in
Political career
Omoworare successfully ran for election for the Ifako-Ijaiye constituency of the Lagos State House of Assembly in January 1999, running on the
In the April 2011 elections for the Osun East Senatorial seat, Omoworare polled 119,852 votes, running on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) platform, ahead of Senator Iyiola Omisore of the PDP who received 51,315 votes. He is the vice-chairman of the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Intergovernmental Affairs (with oversight functions over some agencies under the presidency). He is also a member of the following Senate Committees –Rules and Business, Judiciary, Petroleum (Upstream), Health and Sports. His cardinal focus includes constitutional reforms (including Judiciary, Police, and Prisons) and youth empowerment.
As a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Babajide Omoworare has sponsored five bills, which include the “Prison Decongestion Bill”, which is now waiting for presidential assent and co-sponsored many other bills and motions. He renovated schools and town halls, gave scholarships, sponsored job clinics, gave UTME and NECO forms to indigent students, organised free summer schools for students, free Family Health Fairs, initiated coordination of trade associations into cooperative societies, gave economic and financial empowerment to his constituents and sponsored of 25 youths within the constituency on leadership and exchange programme to the United States, sponsored of young Entrepreneurs on UKTI program to Sheffield, UK etc. He led other federal legislators from his constituency to construct the multimillion naira Ipetu-Ijesa Waterworks, among several others.
In his effort to reach out to his constituents, he holds monthly constituency meetings from one Local Government to the other within the Senatorial District. From time to time, he also issues AFARA, a Constituency Bulletin. In recognition of his qualitative representation at the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and his impactful political participation in the country, he was conferred with a National Honour in the rank of
References
- ^ a b "About Babajide Omoworare". Christopher Omoworare Babajide. Archived from the original on 1 May 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ "Collated Senate results". INEC. Archived from the original on 19 April 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2011.