MAYOR AKINPELU’S DIARY: Rauf Aregbesola’s Perfidy

I was a member of the inauguration committee of then Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Lagos State in 1999. Senator Babafemi Ojudu was the chairman. Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, former commissioner for works in Lagos State, two-time governor of Osun State, former minister of interior and now general secretary of the newly formed coalition party, African Democratic Congress (ADC), was also a member. My recollection of Aregbesola was that of a scruffy looking man, with his ‘tebliq’ trousers. What he had going for him at that time was his capacity as…

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Kemi Badenoch Denies Nigerian Identity, Declares: “I’m British”

British Member of Parliament and Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Kemi Badenoch, has stirred controversy after firmly distancing herself from her Nigerian roots in a recent interview, declaring, “I’m British.” Badenoch, who was born in Wimbledon, London, to Nigerian parents and spent part of her childhood in Lagos, made the statement during a televised discussion on national identity and immigration. When asked about her Nigerian heritage and how it influences her political stance, she replied: “I’m British. I wasn’t born in Nigeria, I don’t hold a Nigerian passport,…

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