In a time when many politicians disappear after election day, Hon. Leke Abejide has chosen a different path – one that puts his people first. Representing Yagba Federal Constituency in Kogi State, Abejide has become a symbol of what true representation should look like: present, practical, and deeply rooted in the welfare of his kinsmen.
What makes Abejide rare is not just what he does in Abuja, but what he does in the villages of Yagba East, Yagba West and Mopamuro. For years, through the Leke Abejide Foundation, he has sustained a model of empowerment that touches the most vulnerable. He pays WAEC and NECO fees for thousands of students in both public and private schools, awards scholarships including medical and foreign studies, and supports widows who are often forgotten by the system.
Recently, his foundation donated N10 million each to 71 communities across Yagbaland, totaling over N740 million in direct intervention. This was not a campaign promise or political slogan. It was cash that entered communities for their immediate needs – whether farm inputs, small traders support, school materials, or health outreach. Today, residents of Yagba will tell you they know where to go when they need help, because the structure for help already exists.
His latest commitment reinforces this reputation. At his homecoming at Itodo Open Field in Yagba East, Abejide pledged N500 million for youth empowerment across all 74 communities in the federal constituency. The goal is simple: to help young people start and expand small businesses, become self-reliant, create jobs, and stay productive in their own land. In a region where youth unemployment drives many away, this kind of investment is not just empowerment – it is hope.
Abejide’s welfare philosophy goes beyond Yagbaland. In Kano State, where he lived and built businesses for years, he unveiled a plan to empower one million Yoruba residents across the 44 local government areas. The programme targets widows, artisans, women, youths, and the less privileged. He told the 27-member committee coordinating the programme to be transparent: “This committee must be transparent and upright. We must ensure that the empowerment gets to the people who genuinely need it.”
Infrastructure also bears his mark. Roads long abandoned – Kabba-Ilorin, Ekinrin-Adde-Iyamoye, Igbagun-Alu-Ife-Olukotun and other rural links – have been rehabilitated, opening up farming communities and reducing travel hardship for market women and farmers.
Why does Abejide prioritize his kinsmen so much? Perhaps because he sees leadership as kinship. He often says, “I belong to two States – Kogi and Kano.” For him, relationship is not seasonal. He does not wait for election season to visit home; he stays connected through ward-level consultations and community feedback.
In Nigerian politics where many leaders build mansions in Abuja while their villages lack water, Leke Abejide has reversed the equation. He builds his legacy in his communities.
That is why his people defend him fiercely and why groups like the Like Minds Alliance Pressure Group, describe his representation as unprecedented. He has set a new standard: that a leader’s worth should be measured not by titles or party, but by how many lives he has lifted.
Leke Abejide is not just representing Yagba – he is restoring dignity to representation itself. Again I LEKE LE KAN SI O!
SIGNED:Â
CHIEF RICHARD ASAJE,
Founder/Nat’l Coordinator,
Like Minds Alliance Pressure Group
22nd Oct., 2026
