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“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality and reality into progress” — Peter Drucker.
The question hanging over Oyo South as 2027 draws near is not who is speaking the loudest, but who has the record to show. In politics, promises age quickly. What endures is evidence of roads fixed, of lights restored in schools and markets, of young people in classrooms because fees were paid, of farmers back on their land because inputs arrived on time, of women and youth with capital to start a trade. Voters across the nine local governments of Oyo South are beginning to measure the next Senate race not by rhetoric, but by what has already been done, and what can be scaled.
That is where the national story and the local story begin to meet. At the center of Nigeria’s national reset since 2023 has been President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR and the Renewed Hope Agenda, a deliberate attempt to re-engineer the economy and governance. The administration in Abuja moved early to remove distortions that had held the country back for decades. Fuel subsidy was ended, exchange rates were unified, and the savings were redirected into increased federal allocations to states including Oyo State, and into critical infrastructure. By 2025, foreign reserves had climbed above the $40 billion mark, giving the country more room to stabilize its currency and attract investment. A student loan scheme was activated through NELFUND to ensure that no child is priced out of tertiary education. A renewed push on roads began, with signature projects and the rehabilitation of federal highways designed to connect markets, reduce transport costs, and open up trade from Lagos through Oyo to the North. In agriculture, dry and wet season interventions were rolled out to boost food production, while security agencies received more support and equipment. Social intervention programs were restructured to protect the most vulnerable. The idea was simple; lay a hard foundation now so that growth can be real later, and so that states and federal constituencies have more resources to work with.
But foundations alone do not feed families. Foundations must be built upon. And that is where representation matters. Across Oyo South, constituents have been watching a different kind of politics unfold since 2023, one measured less in billboards and more in classrooms with solar panels, in farms with inputs, in young people with scholarships, and in groups receiving direct empowerment to stand on their own. The man behind that approach is Hon. Engr. Dr. Aderemi Abas Oseni, Member representing Ido/Ibarapa East Federal Constituency, Chairman of the House Committee on the Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, and the APC candidate for Oyo South Senatorial District in 2027. He came to public office not from the usual political ladder, but from a background in engineering and service. Before 2023, his charity was already his campaign. Since 2023, his performance has become his campaign.
As Chairman of FERMA, Hon. Engr. Dr. Aderemi Abass Oseni sits at a table that decides how federal roads are prioritized and maintained across the country. It is a role with direct consequences for Oyo South, a district that links Ibadan to the borders and beyond. Through oversight visits, budget engagements, and advocacy for timely releases, he has pushed for attention to failed portions that affect commerce, education, and health. For Oyo State, this means stronger advocacy for federal road projects that connect Ibadan to Ibarapa and to neighboring states, reducing travel time and cost for traders and commuters.
At home in Ido and Ibarapa East Federal Constituency, the focus has been practical and people-centered. Solar power systems have been facilitated for schools and markets to cut energy costs and extend learning and trading hours. Farmers have received support with inputs to boost yields in line with President Tinubu’s push for food security. Scholarships have gone to the best and to the needy, because talent should not be wasted to poverty. Beyond that, Hon. Remi Oseni has rolled out direct empowerment programs that put money and tools into the hands of the people. Various cooperative groups, artisans, market women, youth associations, and vulnerable families across Ido and Ibarapa East have received cash grants for trade and business expansion. Starter packs and equipment have been distributed to graduates of skills acquisition programs to enable them to become employers rather than job seekers. These interventions were designed to reduce hardship at the grassroots and to ensure that federal and constituency resources translate into visible livelihoods.
This is why the conversation in 2027 is shifting. The All Progressives Congress has presented Hon. Engr. Dr. Remi Oseni as its candidate for Oyo South Senatorial District not as a gamble, but as an expansion plan. The logic is straightforward. If a model of constituency service can work in Ido/Ibarapa East, can it be taken across Ibadan North, Ibadan North East, Ibadan North West, Ibadan South East, Ibadan South West, Ido, Ibarapa Central, Ibarapa East, and Ibarapa North? If a legislator understands infrastructure from the oversight side, can he use that experience to attract more federal projects to Oyo South, defend better budgets, and make laws that ease the cost of living? If the federal government is resetting policy under President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, can Oyo South have a Senator who understands both the policy language in Abuja and the community language in Ibadan, Ibarapa, and Ido?
President Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda is about structural change on the economy, on infrastructure, on education, on security, and on creating an enabling environment for states like Oyo to thrive. What Oyo South needs now is a bridge between that national agenda and local realities. That bridge is built by a Senator who will not treat the seat as a retirement plan, but as a work station. A Senator with an engineering mind to solve problems and a servant’s heart to remain accountable to the people.
2027 is being framed by stakeholders as a year of liberation, liberation from infrastructural neglect, from legislative absence, from missed opportunities to bring federal presence home. It is a call to take what has worked in Ido/Ibarapa East under Hon. Engr. Dr. Aderemi Abass Oseni and extend it to the entire Oyo South. It is a call to align constituency delivery with national reform, so that policies made in Abuja under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu are felt in Bodija, Eruwa, Igboora, and Apata.
The choice before Oyo South is therefore not just about party. It is about capacity. It is about track record. It is about who can walk into the Senate in 2027 and immediately get to work on roads, on power, on youth and women empowerment, on agriculture, and on attracting federal presence.
When vision meets performance, and when national policy meets local delivery, progress ceases to be a slogan. It becomes a road that can be driven on, a light that stays on, a student who graduates, a farmer who harvests, and a young man or woman with capital to build a future.
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