Why I’m silent on national issues – Bankole

Barely 14 months after  the former Speaker of  House of Representatives,  Mr. Dimeji Bankole, left office, he has explained  the reason why he kept mum on national issues, saying he preferred to remain silent so as to ‘live long’. Bankole, who paid a visit to the Matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief H.I.D Awolowo, in her Ikenne home, yesterday, met secretly with her for 30 minutes.
He, however, declined comments when he was approached by newsmen who got the hint of his visit to Awolowo.
The former Speaker, who was clad in white Kaftan, white cap and black sandals, drove himself to Awolowo’s residence at 1. 18 p.m.
He was received by Mama Awolowo  in company of her daughter, Dr. Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu.
He later went into a secret meeting that lasted about 30  minutes with the her.
Vanguard gathered that the meeting  might not be unconnected with the issues of unity among the Yoruba and the alleged marginalisation of the race by the President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
The meeting also came  five days after a meeting was held under the aegis of  Yoruba Unity Forum, YUF,  at the same place where issues bordering  on the relegation of the race in the scheme of things in the country, among other things, were discussed.

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