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Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo

Date of Birth: 6 March 1909
Place of Birth: Ogun State, Nigeria
Died: 9 May 1987


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South-west bias claims weaken Tinubu's standing

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'...


Not yet, Generalissimo

He has a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife Osun state...


Grandees test the water

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...


'No condition is permanent'

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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Policing the vote

Professor Osinbajo's wife Dolapo Osinbajo is the granddaughter of Obafemi Awolowo the legendary Yoruba leader...


Political storm warning

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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Watch the south-west

Even the name refers back to Yoruba leader Obafemi Awolowo’s Action Group founded in 1951 in the run up to Independence...


No consensus on the census

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...


The General's election

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)...


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