How Tinubu made late Bola Ige work for Obasanjo – Agunloye
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- Dec 17, 2017
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A former personal assistant to the late Bola Ige, Olu Agunloye, has disclosed that Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, persuaded Ige to work under the administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Agunloye disclosed that the former Lagos State Governor used his “strong bonds” to persuade the late Minister to work for Obasanjo.
In a chat with Punch, the former Minister of Minister of Defence, Power & Steel Development, said: “Asiwaju Bola Tinubu played a major role in getting Uncle Bola persuaded to work with President Olusegun Obasanjo and especially to switch uncle’s preferred ministry from Communications to Power and Steel. They had strong bonds in those days while in the Alliance for Democracy.”
On if Obasanjo was close to Ige, Agunloye said, “Uncle Bola and Chief Obasanjo were close from the days when Uncle Bola was a commissioner in the defunct Western State.
“Obasanjo, then, was the General Officer Commanding (2 Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army) in Ibadan. But it was Sir Dele Ige, Uncle Bola’s younger brother that was Obasanjo’s friend.
“They usually had lunch together in Sir (Dele) Ige’s house most Sundays when Chief Obasanjo was in Ibadan.”
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