President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Thursday, attend the
public presentation of ‘My Participations’, the autobiography of Bisi Akande,
former interim chairman of the APC.
The event will take place at the Eko Hotels and Suites,
Victoria Island, Lagos state.
According to a statement by Tunde Rahman, media aide of Bola
Tinubu, Buhari is the special guest of honour at the event; Babajide Sanwo-Olu,
governor of Lagos, is the chief host, while Tinubu, national leader of APC, is
the guest of honour.
In his foreword on the book, Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate,
described the autobiography as “a national gift that could not have been more
instructively timed”.
“There are books whose very handling must be done with
heavily insulated gloves since, virtually every page sizzles with
contradictions between attestable reality and impudent claims, attempts to
cover past crimes and dodge responsibilities,” Soyinka said.
Trained as an accountant, Akande was employed in his younger
days as an executive of British Petroleum, a multinational oil and gas company.
He started his involvement in politics as a councilor in
Ila-Orangun, Osun state, before he was elected into the constituent assembly in
1977. In 1979, Akande was appointed as the secretary to the state government of
Oyo by Bola Ige, the then governor of the state. He later became the deputy
governor in 1983.
Akande was one of the politicians that was detained by the
military following the collapse of the Second Republic in 1983. After regaining
his freedom in 1985, he reportedly vowed never to participate in politics
again.
However, he went on
to join other activists in opposing the military and emerged as the Osun state
leader of Afenifere, Yoruba socio-political group.
In 1999, he became the governor of Osun state on the
platform of the now-defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD).
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