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

Bisi Akande Chief Abdulkareem Adebisi Bamidele Akande (; born 16 January 1939) is a Nigerian politician who served as the governor of Osun State from 1999 to 2003, as a member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) party. He was the first interim Chairman of ...

. 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 Yoruba 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.

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1930 births 2019 deaths Senators of the 4th National Assembly (Nigeria) Yoruba politicians People from Osun State Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria) politicians {{Osun-politician-stub