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“It is interesting that close to the 20th anniversary of Ige’s death, Chief Bisi Akande, one of Ige’s closest collaborators released his robust autobiography, My Participations, to tell Ige’s side of the story, especially as it pertains to Afenifere. Anyone who has read Akande’s great book would know he has no kind words for those […]
Continue ReadingOnly three reasons could make me follow Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and his former victim, Chief Adebisi Abdulkareem Akande, into the jungle; not the President’s false claims on security, not the news that 3,125 persons were killed and 2,703 others were abducted in the North alone, in the last 11 months. As […]
Continue ReadingPan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, on Thursday, lambasted former interim national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, for saying he (Adebanjo) pestered APC chieftain, Bola Tinubu, to build him a house in Lekki, where he now resides. Chief Adebanjo, 93, at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, […]
Continue ReadingFormer Osun State Governor and founding national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, released his memoir, ‘My Participations’ last week in Lagos and I have read it. The 534-page memoir, including an 11-page foreword by Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, was apparently written for two reasons. One, to render his own […]
Continue ReadingIlana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, has responded to the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, and other Southwest All Progressives Congress leaders for opposing the agitations for Yoruba freedom. The spokesperson of Ilana Omo Oodua, Maxwell Adeleye, in an interview with The PUNCH described the APC leaders’ decision […]
Continue ReadingSouthern Governors have gotten the support of national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu and other chieftains of South-West chapter of the party like Olusegun Osoba and Bisi Akande, who met in Lagos on Sunday May 23. On Oduduwa Nation, the political leaders who discussed the issue of insecurity facing the Southwest and Nigeria as a […]
Continue ReadingAll Progressives Congress (APC) chieftains including former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; and former Osun State Governor and ex-APC interim national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, on Saturday, arrived in Akure, the Ondo State capital, for the flag-off rally of Governor Rotimi Akeredolu re-election campaign. Gov. Akeredolu is seeking a reelection to office on the […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo’s spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande, has denied allegations that his principal visited a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God where he and other congregants allegedly prayed for the death of President Muhammadu Buhari. Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity (Office of the Vice-President), […]
Continue ReadingChief Bisi Akande, former interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Thursday, said politicians with no other sources of livelihood may end up getting involved in corrupt acts in public office. Chief Akande, who spoke in Yoruba at the lecture organised to mark 94th birthday of Second Republic Senator, Pa Ayo Fasanmi, […]
Continue ReadingOndo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and his wife, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, gave out their daughter’s hand in marriage on Saturday September 14. The wedding ceremony was held at Akeredolu’s residence in Owo, Ondo state, Nigeria. APC National leader, Bola Tinubu; ex-Osun state governor and APC interim national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande; former governors of Ogun and […]
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