On the ground in Amuwo Odofin

Short biography

Yeside Kafayat Ilesanmi is the Allied Peoples Movement candidate for the House of Representatives, Amuwo Odofin Federal Constituency. A career educator, she spent thirty-five years in the Lagos State civil service and retired in 2025 as a Director in Education District V, which covers Amuwo Odofin.

Long biography

Yeside Kafayat Ilesanmi began her career as a classroom teacher in Lagos State, rose to vice principal, and retired in 2025 as a Director (Level 17) in the Lagos State Ministry of Education, Education District V, covering Amuwo-Odofin, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Ojo and Badagry. A Lagosian of Lagos Island origin, she has lived in Amuwo Odofin for more than forty years.

Within the Peoples Democratic Party she served as youth leader, woman leader, executive committee member and treasurer, and was part of the organising leadership behind the party’s House of Representatives victories in Amuwo Odofin in 2011 and 2015. She contests the 2027 election on the platform of the Allied Peoples Movement. Her manifesto, “Five things I will actually do for you”, commits to water and drainage, public assets, schools, youth employment and an office constituents can reach.