By Gideon Njoku
Afenifere Leader, Ayo Adebanjo, has said that he has always known Chief Bisi Akande, the foundation Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a liar. He called Akande a pathological liar.
Adebanjo was reacting to the pot-shots thrown at him by Akande in his autobiography, “My Participation”, which was presented a few days ago in Lagos before a high profile audience, including President Muhammadu Buhari.
Akande, among other things, had alleged that Adebanjo and others, including Chief Olu Falae, had attended the National Conference organised by the Goodluck Jonathan Government, for monetary gains, instead of allowing younger people of Yoruba stock to attend the Conference.
In an interview with Arise Television on Tuesday, Adebanjo dismissed Akande, a former Osun State, as an apron string to Bola Tinubu, another APC chieftain. He also called him a political neophyte, too junior to him, whose Governorship papers he signed, and who is not worth any response from him, Adebanjo.
“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.
“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 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.
“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.”
Adebanjo is not the only one who has denounced some of the contents in Akande’s book. A group of Buhari supporters faulted Akande’s assertion that President Buhari had offered Tinubu the position of Vice President, but reneged on his promise and withdrew the offer.
They said that Buhari only promised to partner with him, and accused Akande of trying to whip up sentiments aimed at blackmailing Buhari to back Tinubu’s 2023 Presidential aspiration.
But, according to the group, it will not work.”
