The Nigerian Tribune the leading paper in the south-west and historic backer of Yoruba leader Obafemi Awolowo reported the appointments critically with the headline: 'The list is too Yoruba-centric – Nigerians react to the appointments of new service chiefs others'...
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Meeting via video-link for this year's Obafemi Awolowo lecture leaders from across the country – Anyaoku Sultan of Sokoto Sa'ad Abubakar Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi the former governor of the central bank – spelt out the growing risks faced in the country and need for hard-headed political reforms...
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He has a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife Osun state...
Meanwhile the redoubtable Tinubu a former Governor of Lagos State has built up a base in the Yoruba-speaking south-west becoming the region's most powerful politician since Chief Obafemi Awolowo...
The Benue-centred United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC) of the First Republic for example was strongly allied to Chief Obafemi Awolowo's Action Group and its alliance with the south-western heirs to the AG tradition continues through into the APC...
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Professor Osinbajo's wife Dolapo Osinbajo is the granddaughter of Obafemi Awolowo the legendary Yoruba leader...
Apart from pushing through key judicial reforms in Lagos Osinbajo is married to the granddaughter of Chief Obafemi Awolowo the legendary Yoruba nationalist leader...
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Even the name refers back to Yoruba leader Obafemi Awolowo’s Action Group founded in 1951 in the run up to Independence...
It also prompted the belief among some that the British authorities fixed the census and favoured Nigeria's conservative northern elite over more radical southern nationalist leaders such as Obafemi Awolowo and Nnamdi Azikiwe in the run-up to Independence...
While Yar’Adua was seen as part of the cabal which favoured Shehu Shagari’s National Party of Nigeria in the 1979 polls his group broke with the NPN in 1983 and backed Yoruba leader Obafemi Awolowo (who died in 1987)...
