Was it Asiwaju Bola Tinubu or Otunba Niyi Adebayo that brought you into partisan politics?
What does it matter who brought me into partisan politics? The point is that I am in partisan politics. I benefitted from the tutelage of both elders that you mentioned. I was involved with the first elder you mentioned, whom I knew from our time in exile and we worked together on the democracy project. I got to know the other when I returned to Nigeria and through contributing my own quota to the development of our state, Ekiti. I really don’t want to get into a pointless debate because it is not helpful. I owe a great deal of gratitude to them. They have both been very supportive of my political development. They have assisted a great deal and I owe them for bringing me into the partisan political space. I have always been politically conscious. I was just not a party member in the sense of party politics in Nigeria. I had been involved and I helped Ekiti, Lagos and some other states with my experience in international development and my involvement with multilateral and bilateral institutions. I was able to bring this assistance to bear even before I came into partisan politics. But the important take away you should have is that all our leaders – Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, Aremo Olusegun Osoba and Chief Bisi Akande are very important people to me.
