DAPO ABIODUN, THE PHENOMENON !

There is no other thing that can be utilized to portray Prince Dapo Abiodun other than the expression “Wonder”. He has risen where others are falling, he is a wonder! He has picked up quality where others are snared around shortcoming, he is a marvel!! He has made progress where disappointment bowed the general population under, he is a marvel!!! In the political landscape and additionally business, his feeling of sharpness and knowledge has been exceptionally practiced with the end goal that his ideals and qualities have enormously affected the general population. Be that as it may, how might one start to pick up knowledge of Dapo Abiodun?

The foundation of Adedapo Oluseun Abiodun spins around the valuable birth of a prince, who was conceived on the 29th of May, 1960. The introduction of Adedapo on these vital day, month and year in the country’s history is a wonder: one is the “29th of May” which denotes the country’s democracy day and “1960”, the year in which Nigeria picked up freedom. These still remain a marvel. It predicted a prophetic patriotism of a Nigerian administration journey which couldn’t be looted of him. As it were, it characterizes the “popularity based order” Dapo Abiodun would embrace in the country and the “nationalistic flexibility” he would embark; a libertarian task of protect; in the event that you like, consider it a save mission. Dapo Abiodun hails from Iperu-Remo in Ogun State.

Having effectively finished his initial training, he moved to St Joseph College and Ondo High Schools and completed his optional school in 1977 and 1978 intermittently. While he was a kid, he had the fantasy of turning into a noteworthy planner of human advancement and improvement (a metaphorical articulation); this unavoidably drove him to seek after a degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Ile-Ife in 1986 where he completed with B. Eng (Honors). He proceeded to bag another degree at the Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 1989 where he completed with B.B.A (Honors) in Accounting.

He was, after leaving University, willing to secure the useful experience of his entrepreneurial aptitudes, consequently he started his working vocation at Glock Incorporation USA as a bookkeeper somewhere in the range of 1989 and 1991. The inborn penchant for autonomy was consuming in him and it consumed wildly to the point of driving him to build up his private business. His determination and diligent work at his previous place of business started to pay off. Driven by the mind-boggling enthusiasm for business extension, he assembled wings of company, prompting various business realms which he has been overseeing since, till date. All have turned into the examples of overcoming adversity of a business head mogul. Heyden Petroleum Limited as a case studyi : Dapo Abiodun is the Executive Officer of Heyden Petroleum Limited, unarguably one of the quickest developing organizations in the standard oil industry in Nigeria; the position he accomplished since 1993 till present. Heyden Petroleum Limited was fused on 30th October, 2001 as free Oil Trading Company in Nigeria and in the United Kingdom. Its trading activities range from refined white products to semi-refined dark items.

It explored its formidable network structure to access and expand business relationships wherever profitable and feasible while promoting and sustaining professionalism. HPL is effectively engaged in the trading and distribution of Automobile Gas oil, Diesel, Fuel oils, Bitumen, Crude and some intermediate components within and outside Nigeria. The organization has kept on arranging key collaboration and concurrence with a few refineries in UAE, Europe and Russia which empowers it to get at reduced costs that enables it to offer superb offering costs in the commercial center. It owns and operates a dedicated jetty which enables demurrage-free operations and explains its efficiency of service. Its jetty and farm tank in Ijora with a combined onshore and floating storage capacity of 54,000 metric tons yet considering that its property is more than 65,000 square meters, it presently extended to 70,000MT for PMS, AGO and Kero and building 2 Nos Jet Fuel stockpiling tanks of 15,000MT limit with a different stacking gantry furnished with current and best in class stacking offices which without a doubt empowers it to stock up oil based goods lasting through the year and lessen its conveyance lead times to the base. It as of now can stack 5,000MT of every one day.

It has maritime vessels and canal boats (MT Orion/ – 5000 metric tons and MT shvjah5-6000 metric tons, Barge Heyden Lamissa-14,000MT, Barge Heyden Bamidele 40,000MT) that embrace marine haulage of oil based goods to its stockpiling terminal and other outsider terminals. It has more than seventy (70) trucks for inland conveyances, oil based commodities to its customer’s areas. It has a trailer stop that can suit somewhere in the range of 300 and 400 tanker/trailers anytime. All these empower the organization (HPL) to work productively without pointless demurrages. HPL is strategically situated in Abuja, Lagos and London with its partners in Dubai, UAE and Cape Town in South Africa. Its industry accomplices are Projector S.A in the UK, Texaco, Conoil, Total, Vitol, Mobil, Addax, Oando Plc and African Petroleum.

To investigate the political profession of Dapo Abiodun is to dive into the identity of the business-turned lawmaker. Adedapo Oluseun Abiodun started his trip into legislative issues more than two decades prior when he joined the United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP), one of the five State segmented political gatherings permitted by the administration on General decisions held in April 1998. He was appointed as a member of the National committee in January, 1997 after which he was appointed later as one of government agents to the United States of America in November, 1997. In 1998, he contested for the Ogun East Senatorial seat under the umbrella of his party, UNCP and won. He turned into the Senator-elect at the Ogun East Senatorial District of UNCP. Upon the disintegration of every single political party by 1998, Dapo Abiodun joined People’s Democratic Party, a new political party formed alongside other political parties at the beginning of Nigeria’s democracy in 1999, in which he was appointed as a National delegate of the PDP National Convention.

Prince Adedapo Abiodun accomplished an advantageous tallness in the Telecommunications Industry because of his crucial commitment to the modernization of media transmission frameworks in Nigeria in which he was appointed as Board Chairman of the Technical Committee of then , Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), in January 2000, he was appointed as an individual from two Federal Government Panels of Enquiry to National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria. In 2000, he was appointed individual from the three Federal Government Panels of Enquiry in particular: the Federal of Enquiry to the Nigerian Airspace Management Authority (NAMA), the Federal Government Panel of Enquiry to the Nigerian Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Federal Government Panel of Enquiry to the Nigeria College of Arts and Technology (NCAF). Around the same time, respecting the call of his admirers and gigantic supporters, Dapo Abiodun yearned for the Ogun State Gubernatorial seat under PDP and emerged as the first runner-up in Ogun State PDP gubernatorial primaries. In 2003, he accepted the nomination to be a member of the PDP Presidential Campaign Team and also the Steering Committee of the Business Support Group (BSG). Six years down the line, by January 2009, he was again appointed as member from the Presidential Think-Tank. By 2012 Prince Adedapo Abiodun was appointed to Chair the Oil and Gas Committee of Ogun State Government. This was heralded  by his defections to the Action Congress of Nigeria from the PDP with many of his supporters in the Ogun East Senatorial District giving powerful help to the ACN Government in the state while contributing his impact in numerous circles the country over. Subsequently, he was granted the lofty national respect as Member of the Federal Republic (MFR) by the Federal Government of Nigeria. In the year 2012, he was chosen as the Chairman, Depot and Petroleum Product Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN).

In 2015 he was the Senatorial Candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC) for Ogun East Senatorial District in an acutely challenged race. Being the Philanthropist that he is, he was the first individual to lend a hand of support financially to the Sagamu, Yoruba/Hausa people group after their ethnic conflict, as a party advocate, he set out on important ventures, for example, granting of grants and sinking boreholes inside his Senatorial District, close by supporting his party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) morally and financially within and outside of the elections period. He has gotten various honors both locally and globally for his exceptional commitments in circles of human undertaking.  Dapo is a man who keeps on raising the standard of authority with his inclination for having permanent effects in proficient circles as well as in the advancement of an extraordinary country. He is the present director for the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), in Abuja.

All in all, Dapo Abiodun is a wonder from birth and this can’t be isolated from him. His extraordinary identity is profoundly felt in the country. His commitment and impacts rotate around business and legislative issues. In business, he has increased the value of the Nigerian economy and in legislative issues, he has formed the substance of administration and impact Nigerian leadership to impact  on the citizenry. Dapo Abiodun is in fact a phenomenal and his phenomenal skill is what he is bringing back to change the face of politics of Ogun State in 2019 as he has declared his intention in contesting as APC gubernatorial aspirant.

Views: 211