{"id":118767,"date":"2021-12-09T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T12:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=118767"},"modified":"2021-12-09T13:50:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T12:50:28","slug":"how-obasanjos-diabolical-double-cross-cost-akande-his-second-term-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/09\/how-obasanjos-diabolical-double-cross-cost-akande-his-second-term-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"How Obasanjo\u2019s diabolical double-cross cost Akande his second term – Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari recalled on Thursday in Lagos how former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s devious double-cross cost Chief Bisi Akande his bid for a second term.<\/p>\n

He spoke at the public presentation of Akande’s autobiography, “My Participations,” hosted at the Eko Hotel on Victoria Island in Lagos.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is common knowledge that Akande was the victim \u2013 along with other AD Governors \u2013 of a diabolical double-cross which ended his gubernatorial career. Only the steadfast Asiwaju Bola Tinubu escaped the electoral massacre masterminded by President Obasanjo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201dDesperately disappointed though he was, and being a good Muslim, he accepted this setback as part of the trials of life. He looked to the future of service to the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Buhari described Akande as a \u2018\u2018perfect public officer,\u201d and the type of person he could go into the jungle with, saying that he had retained his \u2018\u2018inflexible integrity,\u201d in and out of public office, never accepting or offering bribes.<\/p>\n

The President, who lavished accolades on the former governor of Osun State, characterized him as a kind, sincere, and pleasant man, as well as a first-rate administrator, whose leadership characteristics made him the consensus choice as the APC’s first Chairman.<\/p>\n

Buhari used the occasion to recount his first meeting with Akande, his love for Nigeria, his accomplishments and disappointments as governor of Osun State, and his many efforts to dethrone the then-ruling Peoples Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

\u201dMy first personal contact with Chief Akande was, if I recall correctly, in 2006 when preliminary consultations were coming to fruition for a grand coalition to unseat the PDP Government.<\/p>\n

\u201dThose efforts eventually came to nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201dNeither he, nor I, nor many of our friends and associates gave up as, in Chief Akande\u2019s words: \u201cthe country was going down and down under PDP\u201d (p.396 of My Participations),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The President also narrated how Akande had risen to prominence from his participation in the Constituent Assembly established by the Military Government of General Olusegun Obasanjo.<\/p>\n

\u201dHe was always in the thick of things through the difficulties and political discontinuities of the 1980s and 90s.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018He emerged as Governor of Osun State in 1999 when the military handed over to the civilians.<\/p>\n

\u201dChief Akande had a horrendous baptism as Governor of Osun State with discord from his own party; his State Assembly (including an attempt to impeach him without any reason whatsoever); from the trade unions and from his own deputy Governor!<\/p>\n

\u201dOn top of that, he inherited a deeply indebted Treasury, huge arrears of salary, allowances, and pensions. Enough challenges to overwhelm many aspiring leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201dBisi Akande stood four square and faced all the challenges head-on and overcame most of them.<\/p>\n

\u201dHis first action was to stop payment of \u201ccritical allowances\u201d a euphemism for government money customarily shared by the big boys in Osun State.<\/p>\n

\u201dThis set the tone of his Administration,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n

Recounting the achievements of the former Governor of Osun State, President Buhari noted that it is on record that within one year, Akande had paid off all the salary and other arrears, showing his mettle as a competent and serious administrator.<\/p>\n

\u201dBy 2003 Chief Akande had virtually sanitised governance in Osun State having cleared some of the troublemakers from his government and, though reluctant to serve a second term, he was persuaded to run again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the political history of the author, particularly his bid to seek a second term as Governor of Osun, President Buhari declared: \u201d Reminiscing on APC\u2019s ascent to governance at the Federal level in 2015, President Buhari said:<\/p>\n

\u201dChief Akande was in the thick of further attempts in 2011 and 2014 to fuse together different groups and dislodge PDP from governance.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe key to his thinking which coincides<\/a> with mine is that Nigeria can only be successfully managed by alliances between major groups.<\/p>\n

\u201dAlthough we failed in 2011 but by persistence and knowledge that PDP was driving the country towards disaster, several major parties were able to finally coalesce into APC in 2014 .<\/p>\n

\u201dChief Akande was unanimously chosen as the first Chairman of this great coalition.<\/p>\n

\u201dThroughout the difficult negotiations, I found Akande truthful, steady and always with an eye to the ultimate goal.<\/p>\n

\u201dIn or out of office, he has retained his inflexible integrity. On p.400 of his book, he wrote: \u2018I never gave to or demanded bribe from anyone all my life.\u2019 A perfect gentleman. A perfect public officer, he said.<\/p>\n

Quoting a famous Hausa saying, \u201dLabarin zucciya a tambayi fuska\u201d (loosely translated -if you want to know what is in a man\u2019s heart watch his face), President Buhari affirmed that Akande has a permanent smile on his face, saying \u201dHe is the type I will go into the jungle with.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the book, President Buhari recommended it to students of Nigeria politics and the general public alike.<\/p>\n

\u201dThis book is a historical document. Students will find this an invaluable source of Nigeria\u2019s politics, notably between 1999 and 2020,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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