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BISI AKANDE IN THE HISTORY OF ILA-ORANGUN: Reminiscences on the 80th Birthday of Chief Adebisi Akande, By Oyeniyi Akande
INTRODUCTION To God be the glory for sparing Chief Adebisi Bamdele Akande’s life and for making his life full of achievements we are all very proud of. He is a different thing to different people, but everyone admits that he has been a source of blessing to this generation in many ways. He is a man of very humble beginning, rising by his bootstraps to have a successful career as an accountant/computer executive with British Petroleum in the oil marketing industry; a councillor in his local government area; a member of the Constituent Assembly that wrote Nigeria’s Constitution(1979) which transformed the country to the Presidential system of government; Secretary to…
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Akande: A Quintessential Leader
In this piece, Aderemi Idowu pays tribute to the All Progressives Congress (APC) Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, who clocks 75 this week. There is no better time than now to assess the quality of leaders Nigeria has had in the last 50 years of its independence. The Zik of Africa, whose political razzmatazz and oratorical skills were second to none in the continent, was at his twilight addressed as the Owelle of Onitsha. Zik was reputed for one of his famous quotes that “it is only a fool that fails to change his mind when there is the need to do so” The question remains whether he must…
