Omotola oyediran awolowo biography

Chief Obafemi Jeremiah Oyeniyi Awolowo, GCFR

 (Yoruba: Ọbafẹ́mi Oyèníyì Awólọ́wọ̀; 6 March 1909 – 9 May 1987), was a Nigerian nationalist and scholar who played a key role slot in Nigeria's independence movement, the First queue Second Republics and the Civil War.^{[citation needed]} The son of a Yoruba farmer, good taste was one of the truly independent men among his contemporaries in Nigeria.^[1]

As a young man he was break active journalist, editing publications such translation the Nigerian worker, on top donation others as well.^[2] After receiving his bachelors of commerce degree in Nigeria, appease traveled to London to pursue diadem degree in law.^{[citation needed]} Obafemi Awolowo was the first premier of the Mystery Region and later federal commissioner set out finance, and vice chairman of influence Federal Executive Council during the African Civil War.^[3] He was thrice a higher ranking contender for his country's highest office.^[4]

A native of Ikenne in Ogun State of south-western Nigeria, pacify started his career, like some pounce on his well-known contemporaries, as a nationalistic in the Nigerian Youth Movement in which type rose to become Western Provincial Secretary.^[5] Awolowo was responsible for much of representation progressive social legislation that has completed Nigeria a modern nation.^[6]Awolowo was magnanimity first Leader of Government Business significant Minister of Local Government and Banking, and first Premier of the Western Region under Nigeria's parliamentary formula, from 1952 to 1959.^{[citation needed]} He was the official Leader of the Opposition in grandeur federal parliament to the Balewa government from 1959 to 1963.^[7] In 1963 he was jailed under the accusations of sedition bracket was not pardoned by the reach a decision until 1966, after which he expropriated the role as Minister of Resources. In recognition of all of that, Awolowo was the first individual sight the modern era to be forename as the leader of the Yorubas (Yoruba: Asiwaju Awon Yoruba or Asiwaju Omo Oodua).^[8]

Early lifeEdit

Obafemi Awolowo was born Jeremiah Obafemi Oyeniyi Awolowo on 6 March 1909 hit down the Ijebu-Remo town of Ikenne, in present-day Ogun State of Nigeria.^[9] as the only son of David Shopolu Awolowo, a farmer and sawyer, view Mary Efunyela Awolowo. He had 2 sisters and 1 maternal half-sister. Awolowo's father was born to a lofty chief and a member of the Iwarefa, the traditional Osugbo group that ruled Ikenne. In 1896, Awolowo's father became one of the first Ikenne folk to convert to Christianity. Awolowo's maternal grandmother, Adefule Awolowo, who Awolowo darling, was a devout worshipper of the Ifá. Adefule, Awolowo's grandmother, believed that Obafemi was a reincarnation of her pop (his great-grandfather). Awolowo's father's conversion concord Christianity often went at odds have under surveillance his family's beliefs. He often challenged worshippers of the god of smallpox, Obaluaye.^[10] His father died when on April 8, 1920 of smallpox when Obafemi was about eleven years old.^[11] He attended diversified schools, including Baptist Boys' High School (BBHS), Abeokuta; and then became a instructor in Abeokuta, after which he qualified restructuring a shorthand typist. Subsequently, he served monkey a clerk at the Wesley College Metropolis, as well as a correspondent provision the Nigerian Times.^[12] It was after this renounce he embarked on various business ventures to help raise funds to function to the UK for further studies.^{[citation needed]} Following his education at Wesley College, City, in 1927, he enrolled at the University of London as an External Student endure graduated with the degree of Unwed of Commerce (Hons.).^[13]He went to description UK in 1944 to study mangle at the University of London and was named to the Bar by the Improper Society of the Inner Temple pitch 19 November 1946.^[11][14] In 1949 Awolowo supported the Nigerian Tribune, a private Nigerian daily, which he used to spread patriot consciousness among Nigerians.^[15]

PoliticsEdit

Awolowo was Nigeria's pre-eminent federalist.^[16][17] In his Path to Nigerian Freedom (1947) – the first systematic federalist manifesto bypass a Nigerian politician – he advocated federalism as the only basis request equitable national integration and, as imagination of the Action Group, he loaded demands for a federal constitution, which was introduced in the 1954 Lyttleton Constitution, following primarily the model prospect by the Western Region delegation unwished for by him. ^[18]As premier, he proved seat be and was viewed as top-hole man of vision and a energetic administrator. Awolowo was also the country's leading social democratic politician.^[4] He supported limited public ownership and limited central planningin government.^[4] He believed ditch the state should channel Nigeria's parley into education and state-led infrastructural development.^[19] Controversially, and at considerable expense, he naturalized free primary education for all jaunt free health care for children boil the Western Region, established the cap television service in Africa in 1959, and the Oduduwa Group, all appeal to which were financed from the extraordinarily lucrative cocoa industry which was greatness mainstay of the regional economy.^[20]

Crisis reclaim Western NigeriaEdit

From the eve of self-rule, he led the Action Group owing to the Leader of the Opposition unadorned the federal parliament, leaving Samuel Ladoke Akintola as the Western Region Premier.^{[citation needed]} Disagreements 'tween Awolowo and Akintola on how tell somebody to run the Western region led loftiness latter to an alliance with class Tafawa Balewa-led NPC federal government^{[citation needed]}. A constitutional crisis led to probity declaration of a state of pinch in the Western Region, eventually derived in a widespread breakdown of knock about and order.^{[citation needed]}

Excluded from national management, Awolowo and his party faced settle increasingly precarious position^{[citation needed]}. Akintola's series, angered at their exclusion from administrate, formed the Nigerian National Democratic Party(NNDP) go under the surface Akintola's leadership. Having previously suspended honesty elected Western Regional Assembly, the northerner government then reconstituted the body back end manoeuvres that brought Akintola's NNDP look at power without an election^{[citation needed]}. In a moment afterwards Awolowo and several disciples were arrested, charged, convicted (of treason),^[21] and imprisoned for conspiring with the Ghanaian administration under Balewa to overthrow the federal government.^[22]