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Olufunso Amosun at 50

2nd May 2016
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By Idowu Sowunmi

HER willpower and focus to bring out the best in any context she finds herself has tenaciously distinguished her from the rest. She pays attention to details with a pri­mal vision of setting new standards and raising the bar in her humanitarian quests to uplift the mankind.

She devotes a considerable part of her time, energy and resources on a regular basis to advance the cause of the less privileged and champion initiatives that support the needy in our society. Her dream is aimed at empow­ering and uplifting the disadvantaged people regardless of their age, education status, religious and political af­filiations.

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Welcome to the world of Mrs. Olufunso Amosun, the wife of the Governor of Ogun State.

Born some 50 years ago on May 2, Mrs. Amosun is today joining the elegant circle of Golden Jubilee club. No doubt, 50 is a milestone and clocking the golden age calls for a celebration of some sort.

To celebrate this remarkable woman of virtues, I have decided to put this piece together to hitherto showcase the natural values many don’t really know about her. Working with Mrs. Amosun since January 2012 as one of her close aides has given me the vista of opportunities to know her better and appreciate her genuine passion to assist, support and empower the less privileged and the needy in our society.

Beyond her care for the good people of Ogun State, Mrs. Amosun has become a mother figure to many in the government circle in the State, touching their lives with so much compassion outside their official duties.

Personally, I was somehow agitated and disturbed over a domestic matter and I couldn’t sleep sometime in February 2013. In my state of restlessness, I picked up my Blackberry phone around 2am and began to fiddle with it: played music, changed my BB Display Picture amongst others. Suddenly, Mrs. Amosun sent a mes­sage to my phone, asking me why I was not sleeping at thiattime of the day? I was shocked to my bone marrow. I responded by saying I was trying to get some things sorted out. Dissatisfied, she probed me further: are you sure? And I said yes. I didn’t really want to bother her about my personal challenge.

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Another touchy encounter I had with Mrs. Amosun was on the 30th of May, 2013. I got a call from Lagos that my wife was in labour and had just been rushed to the hospital. I asked the caller about the condition of my wife but he was not au­dible enough. I called my wife severally, no response. I called my mother-in-law, no answer. I became worried. I was glued to my phone moving from one section to another to check who else I could, call. I stumbled on the number of our family doc­tor; called him but he didn’t pick too. My worries increased. So, I resigned to fate, hoping for the best.

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I went to my DP and I wrote: “It’s Well – I Believe, It Will End in Praise.” Immediately, the governor’s wife asked me: “What’s the problem?” Of course, I had no option than to open up that my wife was in labour. She offered some prayers and encouraged me to be calm. About one hour after, I received a call that my wife had just delivered a bouncing baby girl and that my wife and the baby were in good condition. With so much elation, I sent message to the governor’s wife that my family had just been populated with a baby girl. She congratu­lated me and sent a message to my wife.

My takeaway: as a caring mother, Mrs. Amosun often feels strongly concerned about the welfare of people around her and she has successfully extended the same kind gesture to the good people of Ogun State.

Mrs. Amosun’s dexterity and compassion to help others is second to none. I was lost momentarily the very first day the governor’s wife said she would be climbing the Mountain Kilimanjaro in Tanzania for the sole aim of raising funds for the victims of the insurgency in the North-east who are scat­tered across various Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps in Nigeria. While I was still struggling to come to terms over her decisions, it dawned on me that indeed Mrs. Amosun has a strong-willed empathetic spirit to always support the less privi­leged. No wonder Mrs. Amosun has been using every single opportunity to call on individuals, corporate bodies and any other interested parties to join her in lending a helping hand to the less privileged. This, she often expresses with a Yo­ruba song: Eni k’eni ti iwo ba ni ipa, l’ati se iranlowo fun ooo, Oun na l’eni keji re, Toju re. This can be liter­arily translated thus: Endeavour to help the needy you can afford to assist, for such person is your brother or your sister.

Her ‘communal spirit’ of lending a helping hand to the less privileged made Mrs. Amosun, to initiate dif­ferent programmes to massively complement the ef­forts of her husband, Senator Ibikunle Amosun in the governor’s overall Mission to Rebuild Ogun State.

Through her foundation, UPLIFT Development Foundation, the governor’s wife has been focusing on poverty alleviation, using UPLIFT as an acronym for ‘Understanding People’s Limiting and Inhibiting Factors Today.’ The foundation provides interven­ing programmes to empower the vulnerable and the needy, with basic facilities to achieve the ultimate goal of making them self-sufficient. The UPLIFT vi­sion centres on poverty alleviation through the pro­vision of economic empowerment, skill acquisition programmes and access marketable items and loans. Her target groups include the physically challenged, those living with HIV/AIDS, the vulnerable, the aged, unemployed graduates, vulnerable orphans and disad­vantaged women and children in general.

Some of her programmes include: UPLIFTing the Aged; Free Eye Camp; UPLIFTing Women; UP­LIFTing Widows; UPLIFTing Unemployed Gradu­ates; Uplift Cancer Awareness Campaign; UPLIFTing the Physically Challenged; UPLIFTing SS3 Students; UPLIFTing Youths through Beatification; UPLIFTing Traders; UPLIFTing the Environment International Conference and Workshop; UPLIFT Aged Welfare Card; UPLIFT Food Outreach; Launch of Green Edu­cation for the Youths, Waste to Wealth Initiative; UP­LIFT Under-15 Grassroot Football Camp; MITROS Micro Credit Scheme; and De-worming Exercise for School Children.

. Sowunmi is the media aide to the wife of the Governor of Ogun State

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