₦airaland Forum

Katsumoto:
You are very funny.

See the timeline below

1. Akintola and Ayo Rosiji (National secretary of AG) were stripped of their positions at the AG annual convention in Jos in 1962 witha unanimous vote. Awo subsequently asks Akintola to resign his position at a meeting with the leaders of the western region and mid-western. Akintola writes to Sir Adesoji Aderemi (Governor) of the region and to the speaker of the region's House of Assembly calling for the dissolution of the House and
for an emergency meeting of the House to test his popularity; but is ignored.

2. The AG parliementary body elects Soroye Adegbenro as the new premier of the region. Akintola calls on Balewa to sack Adegbenro. Governor states that Akintola had been sacked while Akintola states that he sacked the Governor. Akintola, consequently goes to Ibadan high court to restrain Aderemi from sacking him.

3. There was a riot in the Western House of Assembly in May 1962 caused by Akintola and his suporters from the NCNC; Akintola and Ayo Rosiji are expelled from the party subsequently.
4. Akintola's new pals, Balewa and Bello, declare a state of emergency in the west and dissolve the western house and sack Adegbenro and Sir Aderemi. Akintola subsequently wins his lawsuit at the Supreme court and returns as premier in 1963. He wins his lawsuit as Law luminary, Rotimi Williams, is barred by a petition raised by Akintola, from representing Sir Aderemi.
5. Adegbenro and Aderemi appeal to the Privy council in London which was the highest court of appeal and win with Privy council ruling that Akintola's removal was proper.
6. To circumvent the Privy council ruling, Akintola obtains approval from his friends Balewa and Bello to amend the regional consitution that rendered the Privy council vote invalid and back-dating that amendment to the 2nd of October 1960. A constitutional amendment to the regional legislature should have been deleibrated and approved by the Western House of Assembly. Two crimes here are -a- backdating the amendment to the constitution -b- having it approved by the federal government rather than the house which he sought to manage.

Akintola went to great lengths to remain premier even though he didn't enjoy the support of those whom he wanted to rule over. Ladipo Ademolekun surmised correctly, in his book 'Politics and Administration in Nigeria', when he stated that Akintola was heading a puppet givernment since he didn't have the mandate of the people.

DK, you can continue to try to spin this how you want, a majority will continue to disagree.

EzeUche:
Did anyone really mourn Akintola's death? I haven't heard any Yoruba do that.

The North mourned Balewa and the Sardauna but the south did not mourn Akintola or Okotie-eboh.

naijababe:
Haba Dayo!!! Eti je dodo, e o le so ododo mo What a shame   

naijababe:
Jisox of Olodi Apapa  . DK, you are not getting off that easily, in your analogy above did the ruling party i.e. PDP not abide by the court's ruling? Did they change the constitution just because they lost?

naijababe:
Within democratic processes or corruption of power and disdain for the rule of law?  Dayo ba wi aa ku, baa si wi aa ku. Quit the spin please, you are smarter than that!

naijababe:
You go to court and abide by the court ruling, not amend the constitution to your favour when you lose.

naijababe:
I'm glad you posted these videos yourself, I have watched them. Listen to how the likes of Oredehin and Lanlehin - key AG stalwarts were disparaged and the same AG that brought him to power became a party of corrupt thieves, he even accused one of them of tax evasion and was made to pay £20000.

Don't get me wrong, DK i have nothing but absolute respect for Akintola but even you have  to admit that when NNDP became the regional power it was more about crony-ism and rewarding loyalists than the future of the Yorubas

naijababe:
It's been a while now but the key one that stuck mind was you absolving Akintola of any wrongdoing when he went to court and lost but got the regional constitution amended and made it retroactive such that a vote of no confidence was passed on Adegbenro, he then got the amendment ratified by the Federal House.

kingoflag:
Sure, you'd be painting Hitler----who would have been hunting you down like game-----as the good guy, abi? You've forgotten you're not Aryan.

naijababe:
I read that thread some months ago and I have no real scruples with your wanting to support one of your own but some of your opinions on that thread are downright clannish.

Personally, I respect Akintola a lot more than most people do; I just happen to respect Awo more.

Ezeufi:
I couldn't stop laughing on the bold part. Unfortunately, Nyiibos are inherently inferior people. They make the most noise about self pride, yet they are the ones calling themselves the israelites/jews of Africa. Of course that indicates that they wish they were jews rather that Nyiibos. A jew would never call themself something like "russian of the mid-east", neither an englishman call himself "zulu of europe". Yet Nyiibos call themselves jews of Africa. Whatever happened to your true identity? Nyiibos of Africa? Is it that bad being a nyiibo,?

Aladinn:
U'r very funny o. And u can abuse o. Please try and do more research on d counter coup of july 1966. How did 'handshake across the niger' came to be?
Talking abt coupists nd selected target, what was Azikiwe doing in d caribeans, months afta his holiday was over wen Major kaduna- Nzeugo and his gang struck? History is there for us to learn nd nt start casting aspersions. Mind u, al d name-calling dont move me. Its a sign of insecurity on ur path. I pray u can control ur family wit dis ur attitude. Its nt to late to b a beta person. I'l always respect every individual. Much love.

ak47mann:
this is political,see the bridge they blew up in bayelsa state

https://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42791000/jpg/_42791393_bridge1_afp416.jpg