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Samuel Ládòkè Akíntọ́lá or "S.L.A."(July 6, 1910 – January 15, 1966) was a Nigerian politician, lawyer, aristocrat and orator who was born in Ogbomosho, south west Nigeria. In addition to serving as one of the founding fathers of modern Nigeria, he was also elevated to the position of Oloye Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of the Yoruba.


After he was trained as a lawyer in the United Kingdom, Akintola returned to Nigeria in 1949 and teamed up with other educated Nigerians from the Western Region to form the Action Group (AG) under the leadership of Chief Obafemi Awolowo. As the deputy leader of the AG party, he did not serve in the regional Western Region Government headed by the premier Awolowo but was the Action Group Parliamentary Leader/Leader of Oppositionin the House of Representatives of Nigeria. At the federal level he served as Minister for Health and later Minister for Communications and Aviation.

Decisions over the direction of strategic alliances by the party, the adoption of democratic socialism as the party's platform and the battle for supremacy in the party led to disagreement between Chiefs Akintola and Awolowo. Akintola disagreed with Awolowo's decision not to join the coalition government. Akintola felt the Yoruba people of the West were losing their pre-eminent position in business, university and administration in Nigeria to the Igbo people of the East simply because the Igbo-controlled NCNC had joined the government and the AG had not.[1] He also opposed the party's decision to adopt democratic socialism as its ideology, preferring a more conservative stance.


Akintola was assassinated in Ibadan, the capital of Western Region, on the day of Nigeria's first military coup of 15 January 1966—which terminated the First Republic.[4] This was the "Young Majors Coup" or the "coup of the January boys", which resulted in the assassination of many leading politicians, mostly members of the Northern People's Congress.[5]

Cutehector:
See as dem design him face

Cutehector:
See as dem design him face

Midehi:
walai! the design is that of a lion

agarawu23:
show some respect

Midehi:
walai! the design is that of a lion

Cutehector:
dats why I dnt wana marry frm yoruba.. Before my mother in law sneak. in and design my baby's face

tchidi:

Na die be that!

raumdeuter:
A great politician, one of the greatest orator of his time. The generallisimo of the Yoruba nation, my great uncle may you rest in peace.

Those who murdered you would never know rest till their 9th generation
Ajalagbe Omo kuloodo yaagbo yaaju Omo kara