President Muhammadu Buhari is set today, to lead other dignitaries to honor the All Progressives Congress (APC) pioneer National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande at the public presentation of his autobiography ‘My Participations’.
The book launch will be held at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.
According to a statement by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s spokesman, Mr. Tunde Rahman, the President is the Special Guest of Honour, Lagos Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu is the Chief Host and Tinubu is the Guest of Honour.
Published by Gaskia Media Ltd, the 560-page book is Akande’s ninth book and may prove to be the most controversial being a comprehensive narration of the former governor’s impactful, colorful and crowded political career.
The statement quoted Professor Wole Soyinka, writing in the book’s foreword, “This work is a national gift that could not have been more instructively timed.”
It went on: “There are books whose very handling must be done with heavily insulated gloves since, virtually every page sizzles with contradictions between attestable reality and impudent claims, attempts to cover past crimes and dodge responsibilities. Not so, this contribution from the ‘Wise One of Ila-Orangun.
“If there is any sizzling, it is simply the fire of truth’s passion that leaps at the reader from between the covers. Akande’s fire purifies, being a flame of illumination carried over from real life to brighten the pages of a saga of service to Nigerian humanity.”
