Pa Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere has responded to Chief Bisi Akande’s allegation against him.
Akande had stated in his autobiography titled ‘My Participations’, that Adebanjo pestered the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu to build him a house in Lekki.
He alleged, “One day, Sir Olaniwun (Ajayi) was launching a book at Muson Centre, Lagos. After the book presentation, Tinubu said I should not go and that he would like to see me. We met in a small room where he also invited Sir Olaniwun Ajayi. ‘Papa, you can see that this document is old, Tinubu said as he handed over a big envelope to Ajayi. This is your C of O (Certificate of Occupancy)!’
“Tinubu told me later that after he presented Adebanjo’s C of O to him, Adebanjo was always pestering Tinubu until he helped built a house on the plot. The street was also named in honour of Adebanjo and he is living in that house now at Lekki Phase One.”
Responding to the allegation, Adebanjo at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, December 16, 2021, explained how he gathered funds to build his Lekki residence.
He said he took a loan from GTBank to complete the house, where he currently lives in Lekki.
The 93-yr-old politician also asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the source of wealth of Akande and Tinubu.
He added that it was shocking that Tinubu had yet to set the records straight on the allegation made by Akande.
He said, “A lot has been said in the press and the social media to demolish tantrums. But I owe a duty to myself and to put the record straight for posterity about the big lie that Bola Tinubu built my house in Lekki for me. I therefore deny categorically that my house at Lekki was built with my resources through the sale of 3 developed properties, loan from GTBank and the sale of undeveloped landed property given me by my late leader Chief Obafemi Awolowo of blessed memory.”
The Afenifere leader further disclosed all his properties in Lagos and how he acquired them.
He, however, challenged Akande to clear the air by disclosing the source of financing of all the properties he disclosed.
He also charged Tinubu to disclose the source of his wealth with which he bankrolled the elections of APC in the Southwest and that of President Muhammad Buhari and his various properties in Lagos.
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