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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 ReadingA quotation in which Bola Ahmed Tinubu called Muhammadu Buhari a “bigot” and an “agent of destabilization” has resurfaced on social media and is being shared by people who are opposed to Tinubu’s presidential aspirations. But Tinubu supporters are countering the quotation with a February 7, 2020 rebuttal by Tinubu’s media aide by the name […]
Continue ReadingOsita Okechukwu, the Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), has maintained that there was no agreement to make the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, the running mate of the President, Muhammadu Buhari, in 2015. Chief Bisi Akande, former interim National Chairman of APC, had claimed in his book, ‘My Participations’, that […]
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 ReadingPan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has lambasted Chief Bisi Akande, over allegations he levelled against him (Adebanjo) in his book, ‘My Participation’. Chief Akande, a former Governor of Osun State and first interim chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had last week presented his book to the public, where in one […]
Continue ReadingIndications are very strong that the All Progressives Congress (APC) may adopt consensus arrangement to pick its presidential candidate for the 2023 general elections. According to Punch, top chieftains of the APC, who confided in newspaper on Tuesday, said stalwarts of the party had started reaching out to members nursing presidential ambition on the need […]
Continue ReadingIt is a measure of the importance and relevance of the man known as Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that since the return to civilian rule in 1999, he has managed to remain a major reference in the politics of Lagos State, the South West of Nigeria, and parts of the West African sub-region. He could […]
Continue ReadingFormer governor of Lagos state and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has returned to the country after months spent in the UK for medical reasons. He arrived Nigeria on Friday night October 8 and was received by the Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and other APC chieftains.
Continue ReadingIn September 2018, there was an interesting exchange in Premium Times between Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and his ‘illustrious predecessor’ (as he described him), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The issue in contention was restructuring of the country. The latter had taken on the former on his postulation that what Nigeria required was “managing resources properly and […]
Continue ReadingFormer governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun has visited Bola Tinubu in London. He joins the growing list of highly placed Nigerian politicians who have visited the All Progressives Congress (APC) leader in London. During President Buhari’s medical trip, he also dropped by to see Tinubu in London before returning to Abuja. A couple of […]
Continue ReadingFrom what we have seen and heard so far, it seems most likely that the race for the 2023 Presidential position would end up as the fiercest, most contested, and perhaps the most controversial since Nigeria’s return to civilian rule in 1999. We all must keep an eye on 2023. In 1999, President Olusegun Obasanjo […]
Continue ReadingNigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari paid a visit to former Lagos governor and now the All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, in London on Thursday August 12. There were reports that Tinubu was first to visit Buhari, so, this looks like a return visit. See more of their photos below:
Continue ReadingPeoples Democratic Party (PDP) Lagos State chapter, has vowed to investigate members who allegedly collected money from former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress (APC) leader. The party apparently irritated by this alleged ugly development also promised to activate its undercover investigation to verify the claims that some leaders of the party […]
Continue ReadingChieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, is currently under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Also, a former Managing Director of Alpha Beta LLP, Dapo Apara, has on Wednesday and through his counsel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa SAN, filed a suit demanding a Lagos State […]
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 ReadingThe godfather of Lagos politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in 2015 led the South-West into an alliance with the North to birth the All Progressive Alliance (APC). His decision, evidently, was informed by the expectation that the two geopolitical regions will share power, invariably to the exclusion of the Eastern bloc. And ultimately that he, […]
Continue ReadingA people who elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves, and traitors are not victims… but accomplices. – George Orwell I know I must be sounding like a broken record but I have to say it again and again without any equivocation that those currently strutting around for elective positions, particularly for the position of the president […]
Continue ReadingNational Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has denied distributing bags of rice in some states in the northern part of the country. Tinubu stated this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (APC) and signed by his Media Aide, Mr Tunde Rahman, in Lagos. NAN reports that a […]
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