LASISI AKINSANYA CLINCHES COUNCIL CHAIRMAN OF THE YEAR 2025 AFTER A LONG SEARCH

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Senior Comerade Lasisi Akinsanya, Executive Chairman of Igando/Ikotun Local Council Development Area has eventually emerged as the Civics Weekly Council Chairman of the Year 2025. He clinched the honour on merit of governance service thrust on "Compassion". The search to fill this category has been painstaking and appeared burning out when it was yet inconclusive as at August 2026 ending. The rightful candidate to get the honour with the service value fitting into the theme for the year's selection appeared elusive.
Given the reasoning to see practical valuable governance in the holistic form that goes beyond the sight of physical infrastructure, and compelled to set agenda in line with core value of real media in perspective, the Committee tasked with the selection was challenged with the assignment to come forth with a creative theme to guide the Panel of Jurists in their shortlisting and selection process.
While it would appear too ordinary in the peripheral, the report was stunning and manifestly a product of far reaching outlook into all human life endeavours to constitute social issues the essence of governance is expected to address in their diverse periodical evolutions. The Committee presented "compassion" as the undertow of their findings. Stressing it in full context of its applicable feasibility, they presented the Theme thus: "Compelling Governance Priority at the Grassroots: the Desirability of Compassion Over All Others".
In defence of it, they informed to have taken their inspiration for it from the passion Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State alongside the new advocacy of Senator Remi Tinubu on the subject of making compassion the driver of governance. According to the Committee, governance could be viewed in perspective of humanism and nationalism. Zulum's style of governance has been on thrust of humanist instincts compelled by responses to his people's immediate needs to resettle from the ruins of decade long tragedy of war. This though yet has nationalistic end note with delivery of infrastructure for practical governance.
UNVEILING PRINCE BISI YUSUF AS CIVICS WEEKLY PERSON OF THE YEAR 2025 EARLIER IN FEBRUARY THIS YEAR. THE SEARCH FOR CAREER PERSON OF THE YEAR (COUNCIL CHAIRMAN) NEVERTHELESS TOOK A LONG SEARCH FOR THE REASON HEREIN PUBLISHED.
Interestingly, therefore, Zulum's style is without prejudice to the fact that "even all the infrastructure projects he has done have rather enhanced his scorecard for being inspired by the compassion of empathy for the plight of his people. In March this year 2026 when speaking at Lambeth Palace at London, Senator Tinubu told the global leaders that the world has shifted to an era when governance has to be driven by love and compassion for the people. She said the contemporary society across the globe not only equires politics and strategies but also the enhancement of human values. Analysing this in context, Jessica Dan-Akponewhe, an advocate for the down trodden and the vulnerable said: "This was not simply a religious message, it was also a statement about society in the context that politics, economy and governance ultimately have meaning because they affect human beings.
Accordingly, the narration of the Planning Committee changed the story to veer the course off the path of those already shortlisted solely on infrastructure parameters. They included Mayor Oshinowo of Agboyi-Ketu LCDA; Kolade Alabi of Bariga LCDA; Hon Tubosun Aruwe of Mushin LGA; and Hon Lukmon Abiodun Agbaje of Ayobo/Ipaja LCDA. They made the list on strength of their infrastructure evaluations that had to be dropped for the theme of compassion.
HON KEHINDE OLAIDE JOSEPH HAD ALSO BEEN ANNOUNCED AS CLINCHER OF THE LEGISLATOR OF THE YEAR 2025
Thence a renewed cause in search for a governance dispensed on cause of empathy of a leader directly touching on the plight of the people. Thus, a recourse to our archives of reportage history. Therefrom, Civics Weekly was to be confronted with a once N30Million investment by the Executive Chairman of Igando/Ikotun LCDA, Senior Comerade Lasisi Akinsaya to revive a private educational project hitherto run on charity for the indigent children in the Ijegun corridor of Alimosho Federal Constituency.
Giving a hint of the compassion that went into that project now being processed for the State Government's take over, Hon Akinsanya said: "I wept at my first visit to the school because it was during raining season". What is the full story about this and other developmental strides the Council Chairman of the Year 2025 made to earn this honour? That is what the readers are to see in the supplementary edition on the award coming out on October 2, 2026.
On this note here, this magazine and The County newspaper congratulates Senior Comerade Lasisi Akinsanya.

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