Mike Omotosho


Mike Oluwafemi Omotosho is a Nigerian politician and Chairman of the Labour Party.

Philanthropy

Omotosho set up the Mike Omotosho Foundation to alleviate poverty and empower the youths through training and community development programmes. The Foundation has trained over 200 rural community members on vocational skills and provided N10 million micro credit scheme to empower 300 women to start small businesses. 500 youths from different Local governments in Kwara State were also trained on employability skills, 150 indigent students from primary and secondary schools are also on scholarship scheme from the Foundation. In August 2014 the Foundation carried out medical mission in 12 communities in four Local governments within Kwara State to provide free diagnosis, expert medical advice, and distribute free drugs, wheel chairs, and free mosquitoes nets. Over 5,000 community members benefited from the programme.
The foundation also put up a programme that reached 8,000 people in 2017.

Political career

Omotosho is the current Chairman of the Labour Party of Nigeria. He also contested the 2015 General elections in Kwara state where he came third in the polls. His mother was reportedly abducted in 2017