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By Ayo Opadokun
The Action Group was publicly inaugurated at the historical hall on the hill in Owo, Town in Ondo Province on the 28th of April 1951 and had representatives from 22 out of the 24 Administrative Divisions of the Western Region. AFENIFERE, therefore, could not have been created by anybody recently as was attemptedly claimed in revisionism to fit for the purpose of a private agenda. What is true and factual were that:
After the inauguration of the Action Group in Owo, the leaders returned to Ibadan to campaign and for a public inauguration and presentation. There and then people were asking what was going to be the interpretation of the meaning of Action Group in Yoruba language.
Afenifere: Surviving military onslaught and the metamorphosis
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Ayo Opadokun, former General Secretary of Action Group
One of the living political movements in Nigeria that has survived over time despite, external treats, assaults and self-inflicted injury of fractionalizations is AFENIFERE.
The name AFENIFERE was coined by Chief Meredith Augustus Adisa Akinloye CFR, after the official inauguration of Action Group on April, 28, 1951.
Mr. Ayo Opadokun, Afenifere’s former General Secretary in a press statement issued today to mark the 70
th anniversary of the movement opined that Afenifere was never a registered political party but a propelling movement of people behind the Action Group, committed to the greatest welfare of the people.
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike (right) and son of Chief Olu Bendon Lulu-Briggs, Dumo during his father’s burial in Abonnema, Rivers State… at the weekend
Former President Goodluck Jonathan at the weekend said the late High Chief Olu Benson, Lulu-Briggs was as a sophisticated personality, who supported the Nigerian political process, saying he (Lulu Briggs) played a key role in his rise in national politics.
Jonathan stated this during the final burial of the philanthropist and billionaire oil magnate in his Abonnema country home in Rivers State amid pomp and pageantry.
The deceased, who was founder and Chairman of Moni Pulo Limited, an oil and gas company who died at 88 on December 27, 2018 in Ghana, was a man of many parts, who had a humble beginning but rose to become one of African’s foremost nationalist who impacted on the development of the country.