Senator Gbenga Ashafa has thrown his weight behind President Bola Tinubu and Obafemi Hamzat, the Lagos deputy governor and APC governorship candidate, and is mobilising get together members, neighborhood leaders and different stakeholders behind each.
For those that could have forgotten about his luminescence, Ashafa represented Lagos East in the Senate for two phrases, from 2011 to 2019. The district consists of Ikorodu, Epe and Ibeju-Lekki, so his phrase carries weight in communities throughout the East.
The man was born on Lagos Island in 1955 and misplaced his father at seven. His mom, a textile and gold dealer at Idumota Market generally known as Mama Bareehu, raised him. He studied organic sciences at Morgan State University, graduating cum laude in 1978, and earned a grasp’s in public well being administration from the University of Tennessee in 1979. He based Beverage Specialties Limited in 1996.
His popularity was constructed earlier in lands. As Executive Secretary and Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Ministry of Lands from 2001 to 2010, he grew its income from N1 billion to N13.23 billion. He additionally launched an digital doc system in the land registry, laying the groundwork for the digital Certificate of Occupancy, the land title doc, and revived 9 useless authorities housing schemes whereas creating 5 new ones.
In the Senate, it was Ashafa that chaired the Land Transport committee from 2015 to 2019, earned the nickname The Rail Man for pushing the authorized framework to modernise Nigeria’s ageing railways, and championed the National Transport Commission Bill.
In August 2020, the presidency appointed him head of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), a publish he held till 2024. His tenure delivered accomplished, reasonably priced housing in all six geopolitical zones, together with estates in Zuba, Bwari, Lugbe, Apo/Guzape and Kebbi. He additionally sponsored amendments to the NDLEA Act imposing more durable penalties on drug-trafficking syndicates.
On account of all of those (and plenty of extra), the worth of Ashafa to the marketing campaign is sensible. When he speaks about land titles, folks hear; when he speaks about rail and housing, folks hear; when he speaks about politics and candidates worthy of help, it is just pure for folks to hear, particularly voters in his previous district who know his report.
