By adl
The BAO Anchors Organization is an interest group with gravitas from strong political forces to mobilize and canvass votes for flagbearers under the banner of the All Progressive Congress across Ekiti State.
The organization was initially a coalition of interest groups that seek to draw support and work at different levels for the actualization of the Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, (BAO) governorship project in 2022.
After the emergence of BAO as the candidate of the APC in the run-up to the 2022 Ekiti Governorship election, a formidable effort was put up by like-minded think tanks like Hon. Gbenga Agbeyo, Elder Bunmi Awotiku, Otunba Dolamu Adeniyi, ‘Demola Obanise, while a host of others like Alhaji Dauda Lawal, (adl), worked as an underdog to transform and coordinate these smaller groups into a formidable BAO Anchors Organization.
At the end of the registration exercise, 239 interest groups of over 27,000 members were registered and strategically coalesced into a formidable force to take the BAO project to all the nooks and crannies of the state.
Though not a partisan organization, the BAO Anchors Organization went around towns, villages, farmsteads, churches, Mosques and all the streets and communities in Ekiti preaching the gospel of BAO, and why he was the best amongst the other governorship contenders.
The self-sponsored organization, which operated in sharp contrast and a radical departure from the past, when a party’s candidate would be taken through the reckless jamboree of political rallies and rigorously cost campaigns, the BAO Anchors Organization adopted the One-on-one approach to pass a clear, lucid, and unambiguous message about BAO to the good people of Ekiti State, using different platforms to achieve its objectives, with a promise that the candidate of the APC, when voted into office would not disappoint the good people of Ekiti State.
Interestingly, the BAO Anchors Organization became a game changer, working assiduously with other interest groups and associations to deliver BAO in a landslide fashion as a successor to Dr. John Kayode Fayemi. The results of the governorship election held on the 18th of June, 2022 established this claim.
Today, BAO Anchors Organization has become a well-known force in which all political contenders in the Ekiti APC run for support to win elections. The outcome of the recently conducted Presidential and National Assembly elections tells the story better.
The governor of Ekiti State, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji has never hidden his love and respect for this well-coordinated organization. From all his actions and promises to the members of the organization, one may easily conclude that BAO has taken and accepted the body as a necessary God-initiated Structure and a mobilization Machine in his journey toward a greater and prosperous Ekiti State.
The organization has also promised to continue to retaliate the kind gestures of BAO with drives that will continue to project the image of its administration to the good people of Ekiti State and Nigeria in good lights.
During a thank-you visit to the organization by BAO in July last year, the organization in an address read by its Chairperson, Hon. Gbenga Agbeyo described BAO as a God-fearing and naturally honest man who is seen as a genuine bridge in the Ekiti political space, with unbridled respect for campaign promises.
It is therefore good to say that the BAO Anchors Organization has come to stay as an interest group with an enormous reputation to bring political victory to those who seek its support in the APC with good conscience without betraying the organization.
Adl writes