APC LG Aspirant, Omisore, Offers Scholarships to Varsity Students from Ikeja

…Distributes 250 JAMB forms

The APC chairmanship aspirant in the forthcoming Local Government election in Ikeja, Abisola Omisore, has awarded scholarships to three university students in line with his commitment to continuously pay tuition fees for indigent students from the council.

As part of his annual commitment to education development, Omisore also distributed over free Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) forms to over 250 varsity applicants within the council.

The beneficiaries, who were indigents applicants from the council, were also assisted by the aspirant through his foundation, Omisore Education Support Initiative, to complete the registration process against any hitch.

Addressing newsmen after engaging the students on the scholarship benefits in Ikeja on Monday, Omisore said that the initiative has been his annual commitment to youth development within the state particularly in Ikeja local government.

The aspirant stressed that this initiative has been assisting students many years before nursing the ambition to contest for the council seat in Ikeja.

He added that the gesture would be expanded if elected as the council chairman for Ikeja local government.

“All that I have been doing years before now especially on education will be made bigger to give the next generation a better foundation to excel,” Omisore promised.

While assuring residents that he is prepared to change the narrative on education within Ikeja, he explained that at least three students with the highest UTME scores in the 2025 examination will receive the scholarship.

He disclosed that his conviction is to use these programs to stamp out poverty and raise a generation of leaders equipped with solutions that could address challenges of the country particularly Lagos State.

“I am passionate about investing in the youths who will lead the country in future and I know that this can be better done through education for everyone irrespective tribe and gender.

“And if given the opportunity to lead the council, going forward, residents of Ikeja will see a better service from the council under my administration.

One of the beneficiaries, Abimbola Agbeniga, who intend to study Economics at the ObafemiAwolowo University (OAU) Ile- Ife, Osun State, commended the young aspirant for the gesture.

She said Omisore has relieved me of the stress and financial burden of obtaining the form and filling the documents.

Agbeniga, meanwhile, has set her desire to be among the students to get the scholarship benefits offered by Omisore, noting that she would intensifies study to become the one of the best applicant to receive the award.

She described the initiative as one that she had been looking forward to. “I know him and have knowledge of his antecedents as a passionate lover of human development.”