2027: Sincere Consensus Mode Best Option for Nigeria – Adeyemi

Ondo South Senatorial District aspirant under APC, Dr. Janet Adeyemi

… Insists model will demonetize process

…Says Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo most deserving of Ondo South Senate seat

… Pledges PPP-driven development for district

An aspirant for the Ondo South Senatorial District under the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Janet Adeyemi, has thrown her weight behind the consensus mode of primary, stressing that the approach will demonetise the political process of candidates’ emergence.

Adeyemi, who is the president of Women in Mining, argued that the direct primary system tends to favour individuals whose wealth enables them to buy their way through the electoral process.

According to the engineer and geologist, who represented Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo federal constituency in the House of Representatives between 1999 and 2003, there is a need to produce the best legislative minds for the good of the society.

While maintaining that consensus, if conducted sincerely and without bias, remains the most viable option for the country, proposed an interview-style selection panel that would assess aspirants based on defined criteria, free from emotional attachment or personal connections.

Adeyemi, who noted that she passed one of the highest numbers of productive bills during her tenure in the House of Representatives, lamented that the value system in Nigerian politics remains poor.

She disclosed that constituents often measure a legislator’s success by the amount of money they distribute rather than by legislative output or developmental impact.

Adeyemi further disclosed that it would be ethically improper for the Senate to produce a candidate from the same zone as the sitting governor, advocating that Ile-Oluji/Oke-Igbo deserves the seat.

She pledged that her role in the Senate would be to advance development priorities while ensuring Ondo South fully benefits from national programmes and investment flows.

She said, “When we’ve been doing direct primary, has it brought in the best?’ Because they have excessive money and they just give money and give money. So if the leadership of the party will be sincere to sit down and come up with values and score those values, just like you go for an interview, set up a group and don’t be biased.

“If you have other people that are qualified, fine. I believe if we do it rightly, without being biased and not just picking people emotionally. If we do it with all sincerity, I believe that for now, in Nigeria, that is still the best consensus.

“What is often missing in our development journey is not vision, but execution. The ability to structure viable, bankable projects; attract credible private and international investment; and translate policy into measurable economic outcomes. This is the gap I seek to fill.

“My work with the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) provided me with hands-on experience in structuring public-private partnership (PPP) projects, understanding why many fail, and how to make them succeed.

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“I have represented Nigeria internationally in the mining and development space, engaging with global institutions and investors, including those aligned with the World Bank ecosystem. These relationships are not theoretical; they are channels through which real investment can flow into
Ondo State.

“This moment presents the APC with a strategic choice: to field a candidate focused on traditional politics or present a candidate who strengthens the party’s image as economically competent, forward-looking, and aligned across state and federal levels.”