By Ishaya Ibrahim
Spokesman for the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has accused the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, of lying about his age.
Odumakin, in the 4th part of a serialised opinion piece: Portrait of The Tiger Ambode Rode (4), published on jimidisu.com, claimed that Tinubu’s age could not have been 66.
The official biography of Tinubu records his date of birth to be March 29, 1952, meaning, he would be 67 years next week Friday.
But the Afenifere spokesman known for his critical opinion of Tinubu, gave a number of reasons why he thinks the APC national leader is 80 years old.
“I am Yinka Odumakin and nobody can say he had known me under any identity in my life . I have led a straight life unlike you that people know under different identities depending on where they met you in your about 80 years on earth .Yes, 80!
“Those of us who are knowledgeable about you cant buy your 66 claim for so many reasons .The current governor of Osun is the son of your immediate senior sister from Iragbiji and he is 63 while you are claiming 66. Your first wife died in Lagos recently unannounced at 74.
“When the son she had for you died many months earlier, his age had to be doctored to fit into the lie that you live. And there is a photograph of yours at the palace of Soun Ogbomoso in 1974 when the current monarch was installed with a bottle of beer and packet of cigarette in your front. You mean you were 20 when you were drinking and smoking in a palace ?” Odumakin queried.
Odumakin also resurrected the old allegation about Tinubu’s education in the piece. He alleged that the alumni of Ibadan Government College which Tinubu claimed to have finished from are unable to find any member of his classmates.
The opinion also contained an allegation that Tinubu did not openly identified with his biological mother while she was alive.
The author promised to continue with the 5th part.