16 Facts About Adebisi Akande

Chief Abdulkareem Adebisi Bamidele Akande is a Nigerian politician who served as the governor of Osun State from 1999 to 2003, as a member of the Alliance for Democracy party.

Adebisi Akande was the first interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress.

Chief Adebisi Akande was born in Ila Orangun on 16 January 1939 in what is the Osun Central Senatorial district.

Adebisi Akande was elected on the Unity Party of Nigeria platform.

Adebisi Akande was described as the nephew of Chief Bola Ige.

Adebisi Akande was elected governor of Osun State in the 1999 Osun State gubernatorial election, under the platform of Alliance for Democracy, which had been recently formed as a political arm of the Yoruba socio-cultural organization Afenifere.

On 31 May 1999, Adebisi Akande inaugurated the second Assembly in Osun State.

Adebisi Akande dissolved the state Council of Obas and Chiefs in 2001, on the ground that it was too large.

However, Adebisi Akande had implemented his party's programs for providing free education and free medical care, and had improved water supplies.

Adebisi Akande ran for re-election in 2003, but was defeated by Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Erelu Olusola Obada of the People's Democratic Party.

In June 2005, Adebisi Akande attended an International Conference on Sustainable Democracy in Nigeria held at the Imperial College, London.

In October 2005, Adebisi Akande visited the US to meet with AD supporters in the Nigerian diaspora.

Adebisi Akande defended the AD, which he said was stronger even than it had been in 1999.

Adebisi Akande called for a more decentralized, federal form of government.

Adebisi Akande cautioned against a military solution, saying in the past the military had looted the nation's treasury and impoverished the people.

In September 2006, the Adebisi Akande faction merged with other opposition parties to form the Action Congress Party, which later changed their name to the Action Congress of Nigeria.