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Bisi Akande is someone I can go into the jungle with, says Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Lagos described Chief Bisi Akande, a former interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party, as a ‘‘perfect public officer,” and the type of person he could go into the jungle with. Speaking at the public presentation of ‘‘My Participations,” the autobiography of Chief Bisi Akande, the President said the author has retained his ‘‘inflexible integrity,” in and out of public office, never accepting or offering bribes. The President, who heaped praises on the former governor of Osun State, further described him as a decent, truthful, and friendly person as well as an administrator of the first order, whose leadership qualities made him the…
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Bisi Akande’s selfless contribution to Nigeria made our lives better, says Tinubu
Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos state, says “the selfless public and private contributions” of Bisi Akande, former interim national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), made Nigeria better. Tinubu spoke on Thursday at the public presentation of ‘My Participations’, the autobiography of Akande. The former governor praised Akande for being a model of public service, adding that his honesty and patriotism should be emulated. “Our lives are better because of the selfless public and private contributions he has made to this national family we call Nigeria,” Tinubu said. “Baba Akande represents what a public figure in Nigeria ought to be. He is what many should aspire to be.…
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Reminiscing Bisi Akande’s 70th Birthday: The tension, the drama…
“No event, no history”, goes the popular cliche. Also, politicians and politics are members of the same family who may choose or refuse to conjoin or interrelate in order to be or not to be on the same page. This is simply because what is paramount and permanent in any political calculus is: Interest. This informs why members of the same family may go to any length to outdo one another with a view to having the upper hand in the game. In january, 2009, Chief Bisi Akande, then immediate past Governor of Osun State and also incumbent National Chairman of Action Congress (AC), had his 70th birthday.Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola…
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‘What politicians should learn from Akande’
At 75, the Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, is a rare example of leadership. With a rich antecedent in the corporate world and politics, he remains a mentor and role model to those who strive for value. In his old age, his life preaches modesty and disdain for avarice. Akande has earned respect, not because he is wealthy, but because he has a good name. Eminent Nigerians, who showered encomiums on him during his birthday ceremony in Lagos, highlighted those virtues of statesmanship peculiar to the former Osun State governor. At the Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, the venue of the event, statesmen, government officials,…
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Chief Bisi Akande: Celebrating a worthy leader at 75
Femi Orebe It is a thing of joy that we still have in Yoruba land today, a distinguished leader of the calibre of Chief Bisi Akande, This column opens up today with a portion that was guillotined from last Sunday’s article due to space constraint. It is a thing of joy that we still have in Yoruba land today, a distinguished leader of the calibre of Chief Bisi Akande, the Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress to celebrate. In an age when all manner of characters are bandied about as leaders in the Southwest geo-political zone, and when ‘leaders’ are being trashed right and left in certain circles,…
