You probably would have heard or read about him, the Ekiti mini-truck driver who borrowed N3.5m to support the re-election bids of President Bola Tinubu.
Adeleye Adeniyi has got people talking about his motive, after going public with his resolve and the reason behind it.
Incidentally, it not the president alone that he is backing, but adds in the loop Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele and Ekiti State House of Assembly member Steve Fatoba.
Popuarly known as “Online Loan Man for BAO”, he said in an interview with journalists:
“I am supporting Mr President, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for his second-term ambition. I have borrowed money. I want to use this money to support him because he’s doing a very great job,”
“Like I said again, I am fully ready to go out to campaign for him. And I’m going to use this song to back him up. On your mandate, we shall stand.”
Adeleye Adeniyi, popularly known as “Online Loan Man for BAO” getting set for the campaign trail with his truck
“I will appeal to my fellow Nigerians that we should demonstrate love by giving him, by voting him for his second term in office, because we are still going to see much more, more than what we have received,” he said.
“Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, this man, I pray that we are still going to higher places. Most times, I look at the kind of projects that you always put on, you always supported. It always encouraged me that, no, indeed, this is a good leader,” he said.
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It should be recalled that the Ekiti mini-truck driver had earlier in February embraced media limelight with news of borrowing money through OPay to brand a vehicle in support of Oyebanji’s second-term bid.
At a gathering at the Ogba Lagos news stand yesterday, the Ekiti mini-truck driver’s gesture was a subject of intense discussion with many seeing it as a decoy to attract undue attention, and ultimately, a reciprocity from the politicians involved
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