FEMI GBAJABIAMILA LIFTS THOUSANDS FROM POVERTY IN SURULERE
Comrade Amb. Victor Monday Olajide The morning sun rose over Surulere like a blessing. By nine o’clock the National Stadium was already a sea of colour and hope. Market women in gele, young men in matching aso-ebi, mothers with children on their hips, artisans, drivers, teachers — thousands of them — had come not just to receive, but to witness. This was the 2026 Gbaja Mega Empowerment. Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, walked onto the field beside Lagos Deputy Governor Dr Obafemi Hamzat. The roar that greeted them was not the usual political noise. It was the sound of people who have known this man for more than twenty years. They called him “Gbaja.” They remembered the roads he facilitated, the schools he renovated, the ICT centres, the solar lights, the free school buses that still ferry children across Surulere every morning. They remembered that even after he left the House of Representatives for Aso Rock, he never left them....