Buhari, Tinubu, Govs, Others Mourn
Many socio-cultural and human rights organisations across the country were left in deep mourning yesterday over the sudden passage of Mr. Yinka Odumakin, who until his death was the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere and one of the spokesmen of Southern and Middle Belt Leadership Forum (SMBLF). x
According to a statement from the wife, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, the pioneer Publicity Secretary of Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) died of COVID-19 complications at the Intensive Care Unit, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) yesterday.
She said: “The sad event happened this morning (Saturday, 3/4/2021) at the intensive care unit of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) where he was being managed for respiratory issues due to complications from COVID-19 which he had recovered from about a week ago. I appreciate the outpouring of grief and sympathy from home and abroad as I mourn m
Of all aspirants jostling for the 2023 presidential ticket of one of the two major political parties, Senator Bola Ahmed, the acclaimed National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, seems the only one who is not tiptoeing about his ambition, writes Segun James
By the time you are reading this, the one-week long celebration of the life, times and politics of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by his admirers would be over. One of the indicators that the politics of the 2023 election has resumed in earnest was the choice of Kano to kick start his 69th birthday celebration. Kano is the biggest and the most politically radical city in northern Nigeria.
Learn From MKO Abiola s Travails Not To Trust Northerners, Shehu Sani Warns Tinubu
The ex-Senator said most of the northern politicians are hypocrites who will betray him in his presidential pursuit.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Apr 05, 2021
The former Senator of Kaduna Central District, Shehu Sani, has cautioned the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to be wary in his dealings with northerners, especially their political class.
The ex-Senator said most of the northern politicians are hypocrites who will betray him in his presidential pursuit.
Shehu Sani
Sani, while explaining his recent tweet to Tinubu on his 69th birthday, advised the former Lagos State governor to get someone he trusts to always translate what they say in Hausa whenever he visits the North
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The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has paid a condolence visit to the acting National Leader of Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, over the death of Yinka Odumakin.
He paid the visit to the Afenifere leader shortly after visiting the wife of the deceased on Monday.
After visiting Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, I also paid a condolence visit to Afenifere Leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, at his Lekki residence, Lagos to also condole with him on the death of Mr. Yinka Odumakin. pic.twitter.com/B06Pl4BwwO
Adebanjo and Tinubu are believed to hold different political views.
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has described the National Publicity Secretary of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, as a committed fighter for democracy.
Odumakin died at the COVID-19 Isolation Centre of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital on Saturday due to complications from COVID-19.
Bola Tinubu
Tinubu and the deceased were allies in the days of the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) that fought General Sani Abacha’s regime after the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election.
The latter played a significant role in Tinubu’s emergence as the governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy for the 2007 election.