BASA: The Amazonian With Meteoric Rise To Her Olympian Heights | By Seye Akanmu-Bode
For Honorable Bolanle Aminat Sarumi Aliyu (BASA), politics to her is the utilitarian ideology of Jeremy Bentham who saw it as the provision of the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people.
From an illustrious family with a political father, Alli Balogun Sarumi, who was in the House of Reps under the Alliance for Democracy from 1999- 2003.
The political blood is indeed in BASA’s veins. But her foray into politics isn’t for pecuniary gains. Being schooled in the UK makes it lucid that she’s not a pauper. She’s a philanthropist of great repute attested to by many and which I have seen with her Foundation.
Failing to win the gubernatorial election under a fringe political party in 2019, His Excellency, Governor Seyi Makinde saw in her, huge potentials and she was made a Speci...