By Olusegun Olanrewaju
Leader of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, yesterday lambasted the former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, over allegations levelled against him in his autobiography, ‘My Participation’.

Akande had in a portion of the book presented last Thursday to the public, claimed that Adebanjo ‘pestered’ the former governor of Lagos State, who is now a National Leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, to build a house for him. The former Osun State governor stated in his 559-page autobiography that the Afenifere leader pestered Tinubu to build him a house in Lekki, where he now resides.

He also stressed that contrary to what Adebanjo believed, the ruling APC did not have restructuring in its manifesto in 2014 when the party presented President Muhammadu Buhari as its torchbearer, adding that the APC only promised to support the devolution of powers from the centre to the states.

Akande further alleged that the trio of Adebanjo, Sir Olaniwun Ajayi (now deceased), and Chief Olu Falae should have found younger Yoruba sons to represent the South-West at the 2014 National Conference convened by former President Goodluck Jonathan instead of pocketing “generous allowances” given to conference delegates.

But Adebanjo in an interview on Arise Television yesterday denied the allegations.

He claimed that Akande was ’lying’ and ‘selling’ the Yoruba race out to ensure Tinubu emerges as president in 2023.

Adebanjo said, “He (Bisi Akande) is too junior to me to be commenting on political matters. He is a political neophyte. He is already known to me as a pathological liar. His colleague, Akinfenwa, in his book, said that is who he is. And those of us who know him also know. He is just an apron string of Tinubu.

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“He is too junior for me to be commenting on what he said. I signed his papers to be governor. And the condition we gave for him to become governor was that of a sovereign national conference for the restructuring of the country back to federalism.

That was the condition he was elected in 1999 and he reneged on that.
“We call all of them, Bola Tinubu, Segun Osoba, to warn when they reneged. They have sold out the Yoruba race to Muhammadu Buhari, all because they want Tinubu to be president. That is not my business.

“But telling lies is the one I don’t know, and I don’t know how a man like Akande, who claims that we all come from the root of Obafemi Awolowo, can be taking pride in his participation in the government of one, Buhari, who they know is a disaster when all those who supported him initially are now regretting that they supported him.”

The nonagenarian continued, “There is no sensible man who will come out now and say he is proud of Buhari. It shows the type of character he is. So, he is too junior for me to be commenting on what he said.”