Mojisoluwa O Akinfenwa (1930 – 10 October 2019) was a

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politician who was elected Senator for the Osun East constituency of

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at the start of the

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, running on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform. He took office on 29 May 1999. Upon his arrival at the Senate in June 1999, he was appointed to committees on Selection, Senate Services, Solid Minerals, Banking & Currency and Education.

Biography

In December 2003 Alhaji Ahmed Abdulkadir, outgoing national chairman of Alliance for Democracy party wrote to the

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(INEC) naming Akinfenwa as the new national chairman. The party had split into two rival factions, with the other led by Chief

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. In February 2004 the INEC summoned a meeting of AD leaders that excluded the two rival chairmen in an effort to resolve the situation. Continued efforts to resolve the split were ineffective. The

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socio-political organisation,

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, threw its weight behind Akinfenwa, a move criticized at a meeting of former AD Governors of South-West states in August 2004. In a February 2006 interview Akinfenwa continued to insist that he was the AD chairman, not Akande.

References

1930 births 2019 deaths Members of the Senate (Nigeria) Yoruba politicians People from Osun State Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria) politicians 20th-century Nigerian politicians 21st-century Nigerian politicians {{Nigeria-politician-stub