Adedibu biography of albert

Adedibu continued to reign regionally and nationally, wielding the uncontested power to strategically select and mentor several past and present political stakeholders for ministerial and other relevant appointments. Hazeem Gbolarumi , Lekan Saka. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

But please don't break our hearts, only order If you're available to accept your order. Failed delivery leads to great loss for us. Author: Hazeem Gbolarumi , Lekan Saka. Adedibu asked him to come on Election Day. They took him to the polling unit where Adedibu feared he would lose the election with a huge margin and was introduced as the party agent.

As word went round that a madman was a party agent at the unit, many voters stayed away. Adedibu successfully controlled the margin of his loss in the polling unit. Adedibu was the politician, and Arisekola, the financier. In the s, Arisekola built what became one of the biggest mansions in the ancient city of Ibadan. The mansion was to have a zoological garden as a novelty.

Adedibu told his friend Arisekola that he had contacts in Senegal who could supply lions to the zoo. Arisekola released N10 million for the lions. Week after week, there were no lions in sight.

Adedibu biography of albert

Arisekola was worried and became agitated. When Adedibu heard of his worries, he visited Arisekola one early morning. Adedibu supported Ladoja who was just making his first attempt at an election but his ally, Arisekola wanted Chief Abinusawa for the seat. Adedibu played hide and seek with Arisekola. He asked what the problem was. Arisekola rushed to his telephone stand and called Abinusawa.

He complained about the picture in the poster and advised him to quickly take new ones for another set of posters. When he got back to Adedibu and told him what he had done, Adedibu resumed his complaint, saying it was too late. His preferred candidate, Ladoja, was elected the following day. The greatest criticism of Adedibu was the violence of his brand of politics.

But he had a different view. In other projects. Wikidata item. Nigerian politician — References [ edit ]. News Agency of Nigeria. Archived from the original on 16 January Retrieved 13 June The tenants fled with their families. By evening time, they were sending emissaries to Adedibu to allow them pack their property from the house.

After much pestering, he issued a cheque on the debt to Adedibu. Pronto, Adedibu went to the bank. He was asked to re- present the cheque. Using his network within the bank, he found out that the balance in the account was less than the amount on the cheque. Adedibu headed for the residence of his friend, Alhaji Azeez Arisekola Alao, telling him that he got a business that would yield profit within 24 hours and asking the billionaire to lend him the shortfall in the funds he needed for only 24 hours.

Arisekola, a generous man by all standards, obliged. He was paid. Days after, the businessman realised the transaction had taken place in his account and went to Adedibu to ask why he deposited money in his account to make up for the amount on the cheque. You cannot come from the village and play a smart one on an Ibadan man. Adedibu never had it easy as a politician.

For every election, he does his calculations to make projections of where his votes will come from and where the greatest challenge is. On this particular election, the major challenge was narrowed to a particular set of polling units in the premises of a school. His opponent was sure of recording high votes to cancel out his advantage in other areas.

Meanwhile, being a very generous man who gives arms to beggars and the needy, he had a very long list of disabled people who collect weekly monetary support from him. One of them was a mentally deranged man who curiously comes to collect arms on a particular day of the week without fail. He wears a very bushy air, dressed in rags and looks violent.

Adedibu asked him to come on Election Day.