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CONTENTMENT IS HIS NAME – A TRIBUTE TO CHIEF BISI AKANDE AT 80
Contentment is satisfaction and ease of mind. Contentment is being satisfied with what one has. It does not necessarily mean not being ambitious; it rather means seeking everything in contentment, without resorting to greed and indecent means. This attribute is what the world seeks today in its search for lasting peace and progress because its lack is at the root of most evils bedeviling the world. In today’s world, one hardly finds anyone anymore who embodies such attribute. In places where they are found, they remain inconspicuous as the world cannot understand their ways. But Abdukareem Adebisi Akande, popularly known as Chief Bisi Akande – our indefatigable Baba – is…
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APC PROMISED DEVOLUTION OF POWER, NOT RESTRUCTURING
The first National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC), Chief Bisi Akande has taken a swipe at the party’s critics for alleging it jettisoned its promise of restructuring, saying the party never promised to restructure the country during its 2014/2015 campaigns. He said devolution of more power to the state was what the party has in its manifesto and promised. He blamed the National Assembly and security challenges for the party’s inability to fulfill its promises on devolution of power. In an interview with The Guardian to mark his 80th birthday holding on Wednesday, Akande said though he remains an apostle of restructuring, his party has not bought into…
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ADVANCING THE APC CHANGE AGENDA AND ROLE OF THE DIASPORA
INTRODUCTION Permit me to start by appreciating the leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) who organise this APC-USA Second Annual Convention and who have kindly invited me to attend it as a Special Guest of Honour. I am excited and challenged by the theme of the convention, namely: “Advancing the APC Change Agenda, the Report Cards and the Role of the Diaspora”. In this address, I am merely restating the summary of the APC Change Agenda, which is clearly contained in the APC Manifesto launched in 2013 and which should have been well known to most members of this convention as leaders of APC in the USA. I am not…
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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…
