2016
Founding ORISUN Systems and Technologies
Builds an indigenous software company delivering enterprise solutions for public and private clients — learning first-hand how process discipline, data and accountability transform institutions.
About the principal
The engineer, the legislator, the public servant
Hon. Opeyemi Apatira leads the Legislative Arm of Ojodu LCDA — one of Lagos's most digitally-enabled local legislatures — drawing on a career building software that makes institutions work.
Leader of the Legislative Arm
Ojodu LCDA • Lagos, Nigeria
Biography
Governance, written in code and community
Hon. Opeyemi Apatira is the Leader of the Legislative Arm of Ojodu LCDA in Lagos, Nigeria. His path to public service began in technology: as founder of ORISUN Systems and Technologies, he spent over a decade building enterprise software for organisations that needed order, transparency and scale — experience he now applies to lawmaking.
Elected to represent his constituency in the council legislature, he was elevated to lead the Legislative Arm, where he has presided over an agenda of structured oversight, modern bye-laws and citizen-centred engagement. Under his leadership the arm introduced quarterly oversight of council departments, open plenary sittings with recorded votes and the G18 ward-engagement network spanning all eighteen wards of the greater Ojodu constituency.
Beyond the chamber, he founded the ProPitch community sports brand, championed free digital-skills bootcamps for thousands of youths and drove the deployment of ORISUN-built civic technology — e-filing, e-petitions and citizen-request tracking — into the council's daily operations.
His conviction is simple: local government is the level of government that shapes everyday life, so it must be the most accountable, the most innovative and the most human of them all.
- Legislative leadership
- Presides over plenary sittings & committee work
- Tech founder
- ORISUN Systems and Technologies
- Public office
- Leader, Legislative Arm — Ojodu LCDA
The journey
From software studio to the chamber
2021
Elected to the Ojodu LCDA Legislative Arm
Brings an engineer's mindset into the chamber: motions, oversight and bye-laws are approached as systems problems with measurable outcomes for residents.
2022
Rises to Leader of the Legislative Arm
Convenes colleagues around an open, technology-enabled legislative agenda — open sittings, digital records and quarterly oversight of the council's departments and projects.
2023
ProPitch & youth agenda scale up
The community sports brand and digital-skills bootcamps expand across the LCDA, coupling recreation with entrepreneurship training for young people.
2025
Digital governance milestone
Ojodu LCDA adopts e-petitions, e-filing and citizen-request tracking built by ORISUN — placing the council among Lagos's most digitally-accessible legislative arms.
Vision & Leadership Philosophy
“The future of governance is built in the grassroots.”
Four principles guide every motion, every oversight visit and every townhall presided over by the Office of the Leader.
Vision
A model grassroots legislature for Lagos — open by default, data-driven in oversight and unmistakably responsive to the resident who elected it.
Innovation as a service value
Government is the ultimate civic software: every bye-law a feature, every project a release, every townhall a user-testing session with citizens.
Dignity of the grassroots
Policy begins at the last streetlight, the local market and the neighbourhood pitch. If it does not improve Ojodu's streets and schools, it is not done.
Accountability without excuses
Public funds are trust funds. Oversight, published records and clear reporting are non-negotiable — for the executive and for the legislature itself.