Samuel Akintola

Samuel Ladoke Akintola ( born July 6, 1910 in Ogbomosho, Nigeria, † January 15, 1966 in Ibadan ) was a Nigerian politician. In the 1960s, he was Minister -President of the West Region.

Life

Akintola was born on July 6, 1910 in Ogbomosho in Western Nigeria. His father belonged to the tribe of Joruba and was a small dealer. He visited the Sudan Interior Mission School in Mina, South Dakota went but a little later with his father back to Ogbomosho. Here Akintola was educated at the local Baptist Day School and the Baptist College for Teachers. From 1930 to 1942 Akintola then taught at the Baptist Academy in Lagos. Besides, he was secretary of the Baptist Union and editor of the newspaper Nigerian Baptist and worked casually as a Baptist lay priest. Later Akintola worked as a railway official in Ebute Metta and began to engage in political activities. From 1943 he published the Daily Service, which became the organ of the Nigerian Youth Movement. From the British Council, he got a scholarship and went to Oxford until then to study Administrative Sciences Jura. In 1949 he was sworn in on Lincoln 's Inn as a lawyer. A year later he returned to the present-day Republic of Nigeria, which was at that time still was a British colony. Akintola became an adviser and closest confidant of the leader of Action Group and later Prime Minister of the Obafemi Awolowo West Region.

Policy

Ins central parliament came Akintola in 1951, a year later, he was labor minister, again a year later Minister of Health. In addition, he was elected in December 1951 as Deputy Chairman of the Action Group. From 1954 to 1957 he was the leader of the opposition in the House of Representatives. As Tafewa Balewa, the vice president of the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC ), Premier of the Federation was, he appointed Akintola Minister of Transport and Aviation. In December 1959, Akintola was the successor Awolowo and thus Prime Minister of the Western Region. The long-running dispute between the two leaders of the Action Group in May 1962, reached its peak. Akintola opposed the increasingly radical socialist rhetoric Awolowo and on the other hand sought the support of the Conservative Party members and the alliance with the Conservative Party of the North, the NPC. Awolowo succeeded Akintola from the excluded party, but this directly founded the People's United Party, which entered into a coalition with the NPC at the Federal Parliament. In 1963, Prime Minister Akintola of Ibadan, a region of Nigeria.

Death

After the crisis in Nigeria, the elections were boycotted in October 1965. Akintola was chosen by his enemies to the mastermind of the election rigging. Because of these events occurred on the night of January 15, 1966 a military revolt, which fell several politicians, including Akintola victim. Next to him also died Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna (king) of Sokoto, and the Finance Minister Festus Okotie - Eboh. They took first in that the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Prime Minister was merely deported, but a week later was also reported his death. Akintola left a daughter, who attended as a journalist in 1963, the Federal Republic. In 1961, Akintola also stayed for a time in Germany.