He campaigned tirelessly and relentlessly for President Ahmed Bola Tinubu in the presidential elections throughout his Surulere 2 Federal Constituency and other adjoining constituencies in the 2023 elections leading to Mr President’s sweeping electoral victories there, thus cementing his deserved reputation as a tested, trusted, reliable and dependable loyalist of the All Progressive Congress and the famed Asiwaju political machinery. He is no other esteemed personality than Hon Arc Lanre Okunlola presently the Deputy Chairman House Committee on Foreign Loans and Debts who has steadfastly stood to be counted among the most resilient allies of the incumbent APC administration due to his pivotal efforts at rallying critical support for the policies and programs of the government aimed at transforming the welfare and wellbeing of Nigerians for the better.
Given that Rome was not built in a day, an articulate Arc Lanre Okunlola has gone the extra mile to explain, clarify and elucidate the policy thrust objectives of Mr President to often skeptical colleagues in the House of Representatives and even to the wider Nigerian audience, winning the minds of many a skeptic who have turned resolute cheerleaders of the APC federal government’s policies and programs.
Indeed, as early as August 2023, Hon Arc Lanre Okunlola was on record as being one of the first lawmakers to call on the Nigerian people to keep faith with the nascent President Tinubu regime assuring his audience that despite the teething pains presently being felt, light would surely shine bright at the end of the tunnel to usher in a bright new dawn for the people. According to a passionate Hon Lanre Okunlola: ‘Long long term vision and strategic planning is what drives his policies and President Bola has told Nigerians that this is the era of Renewed Hope and what that means is that by the time Mr President was sworn in our hope was assured. And what l would say is that if we are patient enough we would begin to reap the dividends of democracy and what the President has laid down in principle is the direction the country needs to go, and that direction is what would take us out of this prevailing situation. And l am confident that with the team Mr President has put together coupled with the strategies and policies he has put in place, our hope is indeed assured in the long term’ – Hon Okunlola further asserted.
A political, legislative and professional paragon of sound pedigree, Arc Lanre Okunlola has not hesitated to go the whole hog in convincing doubtful Thomases on the workability of federal policies like the recent Tax Reform Bills which is a giant step aimed at the financial restructuring of the country but which has unfortunately come under strident opposition from some entitled sections of the polity.
However, a proactive Hon Okunlola went into top gear, explaining the nitty-gritty of the bills to the naysayers, many of whom had not even read the bills but had been brainwashed into regarding them as targeted against a certain section of the country.
With accustomed patience, tact, eloquence and astute diplomacy, Hon Arc Okunlola worked assiduously behind the scenes to convince a sizeable number of his fellow House colleagues that the drafters of the Tax Reform Bills meant well for the country and they would spur fiscal rectitude, financial competitiveness and fastrack economic growth and progress throughout the nation.
Many previous skeptics of the Tax Reform Bills as well as other policies of government have come away from fruitful conclaves with the savvy Hon Lanre Okunlola, empowered with fresh nuggets of knowledge, expertise and exposition on the true nature, focus and direction of the famed Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
To his teeming constituents, there is no better way to sell the APC’s progressive agenda than the constant and consistent delivery of democratic dividends which Hon Arc Okunlola is presently spearheading in the crucial roads, health, education, power, pipeborne water, manpower development and women and youth empowerment sectors of society. As he continues to manifestly deliver on his campaign promises to his beloved Surulereans, so do their faith and trust in the APC government grow in leaps and bounds.
So far, So Good as the Americans will say, and with Hon Arc Lanre Okunlola as Mr President’s loyalist in the House, many in the Aso Rock Villa will go to sleep with both eyes firmly closed, fully aware that an ever alert, agile and energetic Hon Arc Lanre Okunlola is out there batting for their worthwhile causes to the best of his God given ability, capacity and capability. To God be the Glory.
COMRADE AUSTIN ASADU NASS MEDIA.
