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ROTIMI AGUNSOYE
Oluwarotimi Ojo Agunsoye, mni. (born 21 April 1962) is a Nigerian computer scientist, business tycoon, and politician with possibly the best track record of a Commissioner for Local Governments & Chieftaincy Affairs under Former Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State who represented the people of Kosofe Federal Constituency in the Federal House of Representatives. The disciple of Nigeria’s foremost political titan and APC National Leader.
Oluwarotimi Ojo Agunsoye | |
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| 2019–2023 Member, House of Representatives | |
| In office 9th June, 2015 – 12th June, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Yakuq Ekundayo Alebiosu |
| Constituency | Kosofe Federal Constituency, Lagos State |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 April 1962 |
| Political party | All Progressives Congress |
| Spouse | Olayinka Agunsoye |
| Occupation | Computer scientist, politician |
| Website | |
PUBLIC OFFICE
Member, House of Representatives
Constituency Kosofe Federal Constituency, Lagos State
Portfolio Chairman, House Committee on SDGs In Office 9th June, 2015 - June, 2023
Preceded by Yakuq Ekundayo Alebiosu
Commissioner for Local Governments & Chieftaincy Affairs
Served under Governor Babatunde Fashola
In Office 2007 - 2011
Preceded by Oluremi Adiukwu-Bakare
Succeeded by Ademorin Kuye
SA to the Governor (Physical Planning & Urban Development)
Served under Governor Bola Tinubu
In Office 2006 - 2007
Board Member, Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency
In Office Nov 2005 - March 2006
Deputy Executive Secretary, Ikorodu LGA Transition Committee
Served under Olasoji
In Office 2002 - 2003
EARLY LIFE & EDUCATION
Rotimi Agunsoye was born on the 21st of April, 1962 to the royal family of the Late Prince Timothy Agunsoye, and Princess Beatrice Apeke Tinuola Agunsoye. Little Rotimi attended The Apostolic Primary School, Ijebu-Ijesha, from where he first proceeded to Omiadio Grammar School, Ibadan, and later to Mount Olivet Grammar School, Bodija, Ibadan for his secondary education. A compassion-fueled comradeship started early in life when at age 9 he demanded from his parents an increment in his upkeep allowance to be able to share with indigent classmates. When the request was declined, he left home to earn extra money that could fend for them.
Jaroro (fearless freedom fighter), nicknamed back then in secondary school, was never one to condone cheating of any kind. This often led him on a collision course with overbearing seniors. His predisposition to standing for the people made him fight the injustices of the Governing Council of the University of Ibadan in different capacities as a student unionist and Chairman of the famous Mellanby Hall. The defining moment of his activism came in 1993 during the June 12 pro-democracy struggles.
It would appear that the survival of a daring encounter with a soldier in the Ikorodu Road riot he led that year was an act of providence to keep his patriotism for a greater purpose. That close shave with death was a lifeline he later grabbed with both hands in obedience to the clarion call of nation-building as he took lead roles in every stage of the electoral process that led to the formation of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 1998 which overtime has metamorphosed into the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
POLITICAL CAREER
Agunsoye belongs to an exclusive class of thorough-bred politicians on account of his early exposure to the game in his Ijebu-Ijesha family house which was a Mecca of sorts that usually hosted the immortal Cicero of Esa Oke, Late Chief Bola Ige, and other political icons of that era. Yet his political trajectory was not easy peasy but rather one that could be likened to a success story that tows a rough, tough, and slippery path to prominence. Even though they both played prominent roles in the struggles to reclaim the botched mandate of late Chief M.K.O. Abiola, his chance meeting with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu came much later in 1999 when the latter was about to be elected Governor of Lagos State and his bosom friend of blessed memory, Barr. Tunde Braimoh was contesting for the Chairmanship of Kosofe Local Government.
His political began in 1998 as a youth leader in the state structure of the defunct Alliance for Democracy and as a grassroots mobilizer with coordination of Kosofe Youth Vanguard later formed the local chapter of the Alliance Youth Congress. At the expiration of the tenure of the Council Chairmen in 2002, he was appointed Deputy Executive Secretary of Ikorodu LGA Transition Committee. He was first appointed a board member of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency in November 2005 by former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu before making it to the State Executive Council in 2006 as Special Adviser to the Governor on Physical Planning & Urban Development.
When the Babatunde Fashola Administration came on board in 2007, he was the Honourable Commissioner for Local Governments & Chieftaincy Affairs throughout its 1st term. After three unsuccessful attempts, he decided to throw his hat in the ring again in 2015 for the Kosofe Federal Constituency House of Reps ticket and this time he emerged the APC nominee albeit it was a keenly-contested primary election contested against an incumbent who happened to be the son of APC Lagos East Senatorial District.
The unusual circumstances leading to the eventual actualization of the continually botched ambition to represent his people in the House of Reps brought to the fore the hallmarks of the democrat in him: patience, perseverance, and unwavering loyalty to the party.
MEMBER, FEDERAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A great orator would soon take the National Assembly by storm with the boldness, charisma, and composure that announced Agunsoye’s grand entry to the floor of the House when on November 5th, 2015, he moved a motion calling for a new revenue allocation formula. The encomiums that greeted that brilliant presentation from a first timer has since spurned him on a retinue of works which include among many others Bill for the Enactment of Infrastructure Management & Maintenance Act, Motion on the Devolution of Powers to State & Local Governments, National Electronic Health Record Bill and Motion on Lack of Delineation of Constituencies for Optimum Representation in Population Census.
His comrade idiosyncrasy coupled with his blunt, unbiased, and no-holds-barred verdicts on sensitive topical issues stands him out in plenary as one parliamentarian who tows uncomfortable paths where others fear to tread. A conviction in national interest devoid of party sentiments recently led him to speak truth to power when he took the APC-led Federal Government to the cleaners over its abysmal performance on national security. On the flip side, Agunsoye cuts the image of a top-notch legislator to colleagues in the House and that of a consummate team player to members of the House Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
His legislative scorecard comprises forty-four (44) bills/motions, fifty (50) constituency projects, and twenty (20) empowerment/intervention programs has been touted as one of the best by any serving two-term legislator in the country. Men generally may not have gold in three spheres according to Plato but Agunsoye stands in the ranks of the few public figures who have struck gold as a super politician, as an exemptional legislator, and as an amiable character exemplified by his humility, dignity, and integrity.
PERSONAL LIFE
Agunsoye is happily married with children to his heartthrob Olayinka and both are ministers in the Redeemed Christian Church of God. Away from the daunting stress of public life, he is a devoted family and ardent sport lover who enjoys road work with his wife. Worthy of note is his love for humanity which over time has made a philanthropist pick up bills of his constituents and give much more to the society that made him, particularly his two alma maters in Mount Olivet Grammar School and the University of Ibadan where he has helped erect structures for the advancement of education.