By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
The last, no doubt, has not been heard about the autobiography of Chief Bisi Akande, former governor of Osun State and first chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The book, “My Participation,” with a foreword written by Prof Wole Soyinka, was presented to the public with a fanfare in Lagos last week.
The occasion was graced by political heavy weights, mostly of the APC, including President Muhammadu Buhari.
But ever since, the book has elicited very strong reactions from Nigerians, who disputed Akande’s account of what happened.
The latest is Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere.
In an interview on Arise Television Tuesday morning, which was monitored by TheNiche, Adebanjo disputed most of Akande’s claims in the book, calling him a pathological liar.
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Said he: “He (Bisi Akande) is too junior to me to be commenting on political matters. He is a political neophyte. He is already known to me as a pathological liar. His colleague, Akinfenwa, in his book said that is who he is. And those of us who know him also know. He is just an apron string of Tinubu.
“He is too junior for me to be commenting on what he said. I signed his papers to be governor. And the condition we gave for him to become governor was that of sovereign national conference for the restructuring of the country back to federalism. That was the condition he was elected in 1999 and he reneged on that.
“We call all of them – Bola Tinubu, Segun Osoba to warn when they reneged. They have sold out the Yoruba race to Muhammadu Buhari all because they want Tinubu to be president. That is not my business.
“But telling lies is the one I don’t know and I don’t know how a man like Akande who claims that we all come from the root of Obafemi Awolowo can be taking pride in his participation in the government of one, Buhari, who they know is a disaster when all those who supported him initially are now regretting that they supported him.
“There is no sensible man who will come out now and say he is proud of Buhari. It shows the type of character he is. So, he is too junior for me to be commenting on what he said.”
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