Oluyinka Olutoye, Unilag Staff School Old Student, King's College, Lagos Old Boy, Great Ife Alumnus....and my classmate and oldest friend...see excepts of my book..'I found my voice'.....
"As the years rolled by I became a regular
feature on the Students’ Council but this was simply because many boys did not
want the hassle of being a councillor. I
took an active part in its elections, and in 1981 became a campaign manager to
Oluyinka Olutoye for the post of Assistant Secretary. ....... Secretary of the Students’ Council but I would
not be held back by convention. I had
studied the contents of the constitution and I was quite clear that the
provisions did not debar me. Prior to
the time, I had been intimately involved in many campaigns either as a designer
of posters or a campaign manager for Oluyinka Olutoye aka ‘Toy’.... At the 21st birthday dinner party
held in honour of Oluyinka Olutoye in January 1988 and attended by his father the
retired Major-General Olufemi Olutoye, the second graduate to become an officer
in the Nigerian Army, I managed to give a rousing toast to ’Yinka. In response ’Yinka said that I would have
been the next President of the Students’ Union if I had not been in my final
year. It now appeared my political fate
was settled." https://www.amazon.com/found-voice/dp/1500789216
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