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Osun Club of Emerging Leaders honours Bisi Akande at 84
The former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Benedict Alabi, the Chief Whip, State of Osun House of Assembly, Babatunde ‘Lekan Olatunji, and the Former Osun State Commissioner for Commerce, Industry, Cooperatives, and Empowerment, Dr. Bode Olaonipekun have been billed to grace the maiden edition of The Annual Bisi Akande Leadership Symposium organised by Osun Club of Emerging Leaders holding on Saturday, 14th January at the Banquet Hall of Chief Bisi Akande residence, Osun State. The convener of the programme, David Opeyemi Oye-Oke said this in a statement issued yesterday in Lagos. He said that the birth of this annual symposium is to create a platform for qualitative discourse about important…
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Over to you, Chief Adebanjo
When Chief Bisi Akande wrote is memoirs, “My Participation,” parts of it raked up dust, and this essayist called it the book of the year. One of the storms derived from his claim that Chief Bola Ige tarred both Ayo Adebanjo and Olaniwun Ajayi as traitors at the home of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Adebanjo and his followers went to town to call Baba Akande a liar. I was one of the few who stuck to the elder statesman’s veracity. A confirmation has come from an unlikely source. In his new memoirs, The Road Never Forgets, Dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi writes that he and his wife, Sade, were witnesses to the event, and…
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How OBJ’s electoral massacre cost Akande, others second term – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, painted a graphic picture of how former Osun State governor, Chief Bisi Akande and his counterparts in the South west, with the exception of then Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, were politically ambushed by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, in the 2003 poll. He said the electoral ‘massacre’ masterminded by Obasanjo was what ended the second term ambition of Akande and others as incumbent governors of their various states. The president described Obasanjo’s tactic as diabolical double-cross. He revealed this at the public presentation of autobiography of Akande: “My Participations” at the Eko Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. “It is common knowledge that Akande was the victim – along…
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Buhari: Akande Was Victim of Obasanjo’s Diabolical Political Double-cross
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday reminisced on the failed bid by former Governor Bisi Akande to seek re-election in Osun State in 2003, and laid the blame squarely on the doorstep of the then president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. He also described Akande who served as the pioneer National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as a man of inflexible integrity and a perfect public officer that he can follow to the jungle. The president who spoke in Lagos, at the public presentation of ‘‘My Participations,” the autobiography of Chief Bisi Akande, reflected on the political history of the author, particularly his bid to seek a second term as Governor…
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Akande: Buhari Promised to Pick Tinubu as Running Mate in 2015, Then Reneged
Former Governor of Osun state and ex-interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, yesterday narrated how Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, as he then was, the presidential candidate of the party at the time, promised to pick Bola Tinubu as his running mate in the 2015 election. Chronicling the events that led to the eventual selection of Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Akande, in his autobiography, “My Participations”, published by Gaskia Media Limited, disclosed how Buhari who was then under pressure to drop the former Lagos governor, later reneged on the agreement. In the book which was launched in Lagos, the octogenarian also took a swipe at the trio of…
