Revealed: APC Chieftains Bisi Akande, Gbajabiamila Were Ex-Convicts

Mr Lere Olayinka, the Special Media Adviser to the Ekiti State governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has revealed that two chieftains of the All Progressives Congress [APC] were former convicts for various crimes committed in Nigeria and abroad.

Mr Olayinka was responding to cynical comments by APC members over the appointment of the former Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori into the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] Convention Committee.

APC commentators had condemned Ibori’s appointment as he was just recently released from UK prison after serving for about six years.

Responding, Olayinka reeled out names of two APC chieftains, first National Chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Akande and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the APC Leader in the House of Representatives, as both ex-convicts.

He revealed that both were convicted for various crimes, Akande jailed by General Muhammadu Buhari under the military junta, while Gbajabiamila was convicted for professional misconduct by the Supreme Court of Georgia, United States of America.

In an essay titled “Ibori’s appointment into PDP Convention Committee and APC hypocrisy”, Olayinka wrote:

Let me help the APC goons running their mouths about PDP inclusion of former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori in the National Convention Committee.

Fact is Ibori was convicted in UK, he has served his punishment. Imprisonment of anyone should be reformatory and not a stigma with which someone’s existence must be terminated.

Now to the APC:

1. The first National Chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi Akande was jailed in 1984 by a Tribunal duly set up by Buhari’s military regime for using funds belonging to the old Oyo State to fund his political party.

Interestingly, Baba Bisi Akande was only released from jail and not pardoned by the Ibrahim Babangida government.

It is also a fact that it was late Chief Sunday Afolabi who prevailed on the Osun State PDP not to go to court to raise the issue of Akande’s conviction vis his qualification to contest election as a governor in 1999.

2. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, the APC Leader in the House of Representatives was convicted for professional misconduct by the Supreme Court of Georgia, United States of America.

Fact is Hon Gbajabiamila was convicted in the United States for stealing his client’s $25,000 and he is leading the APC in the House of Reps. He was banned from practising law in the USA for 36 months.

The punishment for Femi Gbaja’s offence would have been debarment for life, however he played dead before a full panel of the Supreme Court of Georgia led by Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, before the court could rule on the petition from his client, he filed a petition for Voluntary Discipline, filed under bar rule 4-227(b) in which he fully admitted to stealing $25,000 from his client.

In spite of this indictment, Gbajabiamila was even presented to be Speaker of the House of Reps and same APC people are condemning the inclusion of Ibori in the PDP National Convention Committee.

I have cited just two examples, and I still have more to cite if the APC loudmouth do not desist from throwing stones from the glass house where they live.

My name is Lere Olayinka, I am in my house, and their DSS can come and arrest me for once again exposing the hypocrisy of the APC.

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