Victor Ladipo Akintola, Akintola’s son in his book, Akintola: The Man and the Legend, wrote that there were demands by the late Oba D. C. Akran that he with his richer political experience deserved to be Deputy Premier not Fani Power. He wrote: “It was a silly, irrational demand since Fani-Kayode was a man whose extreme toughness would be useful to the party in the rough political ride that was to come”. And the rough and tough times actually came with burning and looting, thuggery and murder of political opponents.

THIS is the cost paid by God, the offering of His Son, that through the death of one Son, He may obtain many sons by faith in the death of the one Son offered to bear the sins of the many. This is why God says: “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more” (Hebrews 8:12).

THE U-17 World Cup football championship has ended and contrary to expectations that Nigeria would win the championship for a record fourth time, the country’s team failed to live up to this last-minute dream.

Revolution is a serious undertaking, and those who come forward to seek changes in a rotten society are never expected to be products or beneficiaries of the same corrupt clime. Most of the time, they are ready to pay the supreme sacrifice to accomplish their noble goals. Patrice Lumumba, Steve Biko, Martin Luther King, Kaduna Nzeogwu, Fela Anukulapo Kuti, Prof. Awojobi, Chima Ubani, Barack Obama, and the last of the Mohicans, Gani Fawehinmi.

Before this Bill became public knowledge, Dabiri-Erewa had been one of the federal legislators who always stood on the right side of every issue or controversy, be it the Ettehgate, the Freedom of Information Bill or the Diaspora issues. In fact, only last Monday, a young man from my hometown who is languishing in a Benin Republic prison on drug offences, called me requesting that the plight of people like him should be brought to the notice of Hon Dabiri.