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	Iroyin, June 1999
		Despite the news of virtually empty treasury bequeathed to Yoruba states by military administrators, Yoruba men and women demonstrated noticeable optimism in their assertions that their governors are capable of bringing back development to Yorubaland, especially with the support of the people who freely gave them their mandate three months ago.
		The most colorful part of the convention was the majestic entrance into the convention hall of Yoruba leaders: Chief Bola Ige, Chief Olu Falae, General Alani Akinrinade, and Dr. Frederick Fasehun in the company of Professor Segun Gbadegesin and Mr.
		Chief Falae gave concrete suggestions on how the six Oodua states can immediately embark on joint projects in agriculture, industrialization, and education as a signal to other nationalities in Nigeria that the Yoruba are serious about re-federalization of Nigeria.
	www.yoruba.org /iroyin,_june_1999.htm (689 words)

	CNN In-Depth Reports - Nigerian Presidental Election - Falae profile
		Falae was born in the southwestern farming region of Akure, the son of a supervisor in the British colonial government of what was then Western Nigeria.
		Falae attempted to run for president in 1992, but his candidacy, along with those of several others, was stopped by Babangida.
		Falae was popular in his native southwest but was unable to garner much support in the conservative Muslim north and elsewhere.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/1999/nigerian.elections/stories/falae.profile (453 words)

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		If anyone had thought that Falae went into that competition as a sportsman, that is for record purposes, to use his own words, now it is clear that the man actually wanted, earnestly, to be President of Nigeria.
		Which is another way of saying that Falae's petition is not simply about the assertion of his individual rights: it could develop a life of its own and, ultimately, leave as residue the spectacle not of justice, but of Falae's personal ambition.
		A fourth point, and I shall suspend this preliminary remark on Falae's suit, is this: that Falae's objection to Obasanjo's Presidency is at a subliminal level, an expression of the ironic Yoruba antipathy towards Obasanjo.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/5144/Falae.htm (1664 words)

	Nigerian elections ripped
		ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) – Presidential candidate Olu Falae plans to contest the results of Nigeria's elections, a top aide said yesterday, casting a shadow over the vote billed as a chance to bring democracy back to Africa's most populous country.
		Falae and top officials in his party, as well as the All Peoples Party that also backed his candidacy, headed to the capital, Abuja, to meet with election officials, Durodola said.
		Falae had told journalists Saturday that he would accept the results of the election if they were free and fair.
	www.th-record.com /1999/03/01/nigeriae.htm (520 words)

	Obasanjo close to victory in Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Falae won in his expected strongholds in the southwest, Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo states, as well as in Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara in the north.
		In Abuja, a prominent Falae supporter walked out on the compilation of results saying the results announced were "outrageous." Ayo Opadokun, a prominent member of the Alliance for Democracy, which supported former finance minister Olu Falae in the weekend poll, said the results were "outrageous and fantastic" and walked out of the official election count.
		Earlier, Falae's political secretary, Sunday Durodola, said the former minister had been a victim of wide-scale fraud in eastern areas of the country.
	scv.bu.edu /GC/lsigal/Paper/clari.world.gov.politics.CNML/Qnigeria-vote-countURjUW_9FS.RnuU_9FS.cnml.html (381 words)

	The Sun News Online/politics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chief Olu Falae is not only a chieftain of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) but the presidential flag-bearer of the party in its alliance with the then All People’s Party (APP) during the 1999 presidential election.
		Chief Falae did not stop at demonstrating politics without bound during the Fayose Visit, but also spoke candidly about what he believed is the nation’s major problem, which, according to him, is leadership.
		Falae also spoke on how a leader should relate to opponents, advising Governor Fayose to reach out to his opponents “and they will become your friends.” He also had words for advisers to public office holders.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/politics/2005/jan/27/politics-27-01-2005-001.htm (884 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Nigeria Report
		The only hope for a victory by his opponent, former finance minister Olu Falae, appeared to be a massive turnout in Lagos and other areas dominated by ethnic Yorubas.
		In Ayetoro -- a slum perched on stilts between a four-lane highway and the marshy edge of Lagos' tidal lagoon -- the polling place was a rough wooden table in the shade of a pedestrian footbridge.
		Falae won, 187 to 36, but that represented only 32 percent of registered voters.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/nigeria/stories/turnout022899.htm (1160 words)

	obasanjo
		Falae denounced the elections as a "farce", but, when asked by AFP in Abuja whether he would launch a legal challenge to the results, he was cautious, saying only: "Maybe".
		Falae's running mate, Umaru Shinkafi, said he believed it would be a "futile exercise" for the two to challenge Obasanjo's overwhelming victory in the courts.
		Falae added that he believed Obasanjo should now, in the national interest, form a government of national unity.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1999/03/02/foreign/OBASANJO.HTM (430 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Democracy and the generals (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A banker and an accomplished administrator, Falae, 60, is a graduate of Nigeria's premier University of Ibadan and Yale University in the United States.
		Falae later joined the opposition National Democratic Coalition in their campaign against the regime of the late Abacha.
		In 1997, Falae was one of 17 Nigerians, among them exiled Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka, who were charged with treason in connection with a spate of explosions that rocked the country.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/418/in6.htm (1085 words)

	The Post: Presidential candidate to challenge election
		ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Nigerian presidential candidate Olu Falae plans to contest the results of Saturday's elections, a top aide said yesterday, casting a shadow over the vote billed as a chance to bring democracy back to Africa's most-populous country.
		Falae and top officials in his party, as well as the All Peoples Party that also backed his candidacy, headed to the capital city, Abuja, to meet with election officials, Durodola said.
		Falae reportedly told journalists on Saturday that he would accept the results of the election if they were free and fair.
	thepost.baker.ohiou.edu /archives2/030199/402.html (421 words)

	The Sun News On-line \| national news (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to Chief Falae, bad leadership which Nigerians have had the misfortune of having led to the pauperization of the citizenry.
		Falae argued that for a nation to really prosper, the leadership must always have the interests of the people at heart.
		Chief Falae while expressing satisfaction with the job being done by Fayose in his state, particularly his efforts to make the people the centre point of his administration advised him to reach out to his perceived political enemies for the purpose of moving the state forward.
	www.sunnewsonline.com /webpages/news/national/2004/Dec/30/national-30-12-2004-006.htm (329 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| Profile: Olu Falae
		Olu Falae: "General Obasanjo represents a continuation of military rule in civilian clothes"
		The AD and APP hope that Olu Falae, a 60 year old economist, is the man to pull off a near impossible feat: deliver a solid vote from his native Yoruba south-west, yet, at the same time, appear attractive enough to voters elsewhere to stop the Obasanjo band-wagon.
		Olu Falae's academic qualifications are not in doubt; infact, General Obasanjo's pale in comparison.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/284340.stm (380 words)

	THISDAYonline
		Rather than concern itself with Olu Falae romance with IBB, I think that Afenifere/AD leadership should be bothered with how to regain the southwest states already in the firm grip of the ruling PDP.
		Chief Olu Falae was a key member of IBB regime way back in the 80s.
		Also, Afenifere leadership should be mindful of the fact that besides Olu Falae, they don't have moral justification to stop anyone from exercising his fundamental right of associating with any individual or group of individuals.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2003/09/14/20030914let03.html (439 words)

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		At the weekend, former Osun State governor, Chief Bisi Akande described Chief Olu Falae as working for the presidential ambition of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, to the detriment of the Yoruba race.
		Last week, Chief Falae, former Minister of Finance and presidential candidate in 1999, accused Chief Akande, a factional leader of the AD, of stalling efforts of the Afenifere to reconcile the party's two factions.
		Falae not only faulted the Lagos convention that produced Akande as national chairman of AD, but he also indicted him for pushing to disintegrate the party.
	www.ngrguardiannews.com /news/article03/050904 (625 words)

	Nigeriaworld -- Falae's IBB Gambit
		It is this writer's belief that Chief Falae was insulting the collective intelligence of Nigerians for advocating the return of IBB in 2007.
		Chief Falae, if he still wants to maintain the little relevance and credibility remaining under his canopy, needs to come out and explain the rationale for supporting IBB as well as urging the rest of us to support such an "evil." Nigerians would like to know how the mind of the Akure Chief works.
		If he thinks that simply because the treachery against Chief Bola Ige that culminated in his (Falae) becoming the AD presidential candidate in 1999 confers on him the right to mislead Nigerians in general and Yoruba in particular, then, he must be fatally mistaken.
	nigeriaworld.com /columnist/oyeyemi/082503.html (1125 words)

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		Falae, has been carrying the bad luck since the days of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) when he wanted to be president, he must have spent his fortune on that it came to nought.
		I know Olu Falae to be absent minded person and in the interview, he said he could not lay his hands on the document - that is my committee's report to Afenifere.
		Falae did not claim that Tinubu hijacked the party when he gave out millions of naira for this bad luck presidential elections.
	www.ngrguardiannews.com /policy_politics/article01/050904 (2759 words)

	Losing candidate's supporters challenge Nigerian poll results (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As results from the 36 states came in, Falae was losing heavily to former military ruler Olusegun Obasanjo.
		A prominent Falae supporter walked out of the Abuja headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) -- where the results were being compiled -- telling reporters the results announced so far were "outrageous and fantastic".
		Falae had headed for Abuja Sunday for a meeting with supporters there, Durodola said.
	scv.bu.edu /GC/lsigal/Paper/clari.world.gov.politics.CNML/Qnigeria-vote-riggedURhzq_9FS.RFH5_9FS.cnml.html (493 words)

	CNN - Obasanjo wins Nigerian presidential election - March 1, 1999
		Allegations of vote-rigging cast a shadow on the final step in the West African nation's long-awaited return to civilian rule, and aides to former Finance Minister Olu Falae, Obasanjo's opponent, said Falae would contest the results.
		Falae, who had said Saturday he would accept the results if the vote was fair, went to the capital, Abuja, today to meet with election officials, Durodola said.
		While both Obasanjo and Falae are Yorubas, the dominant people in Nigeria's southwest, Obasanjo's military past has alienated him from many southerners.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9903/01/nigeria.elex.02 (650 words)

	News -- National Conference: Glimpses of a likely Yoruba agenda
		The members are Chief Olu Falae, Prof Bolaji Akinyemi, Dr. Yemi Farounbi, Chief Olabode George, and Gen. Alani Akirinade, Mrs.
		Speaking in the same vein, Falae who was the Alliance for Democracy (AD) and All Peoples Party (APP) joint presidential candidate in the 1999 polls, said what the country needs now is restructuring of the polity.
		Falae said the annulment of Basorun Abiola's election victory in June 1993 triggered a political struggle led by the National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), whose twin battle cries were "actualisation of the June 12 victory" and "restructuring".
	odili.net /news/source/2005/jan/24/1.html (3572 words)

	Politics : Dariye is a victim of circumstances — Olu Falae
		Politics : Dariye is a victim of circumstances — Olu Falae
		Dariye is a victim of circumstances — Olu Falae
		FORMER presidential candidate of AD/APP, Chief Olu Falae, faults the action taken against the suspended governor of Plateau State, Chief Joshua Dariye, by President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying it is unfair to punish Dariye for something over which he has no control.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/politics/p523052004.html (307 words)

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		A former Secretary to the Federal Government, Chief Olu Falae, has done an appraisal of the past and the present regimes of President Olusegun Obasanjo and declared that they were not in the best interest of the country.
		Chief Falae who was Obasanjo’s main opponent in the 1999 presidential elections also regretted the current state of decay of infrastructure in the country despite the soaring income Nigeria generates from the sale of crude oil.
		Not Olu Falae saying that, but they themselves and it is documented before the National Assembly.
	www.orjikalu.com /pressdetail.php?start=31 (1931 words)

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		Falae and top officials in his Alliance for Democracy (AD) party -- as well as the All Peoples Party that also backed his candidacy -- were heading here to meet with election officials, said the aide, AD party secretary Sunday Durodola.
		The surprise announcement came as Nigerian election officials announced that Falae's opponent, retired General Olusegun Obasanjo, a former military ruler seeking a civilian comeback 20 years after leaving power, had pulled further into the lead.
		Falae reportedly told journalists on Saturday evening that he would accept the results of the election if they were free and fair.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1999/03/01/foreign/NIGERIA.HTM (443 words)

	Falae
		Those who want Falae dropped argue that such a person as president, would be a liability for the country.
		Born in Akure on September 21, 1938, Chief Falae’s father was a headman in the Survey Department of the colonial government in the old Western Region.
		The Gbobaniyi of Akure and Olu of Ilu Abo is not new to the presidential
	www.nigeriatoday.com /falae.htm (938 words)

	THISDAYonline (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Federal Government yesterday confirmed that the Alliance for Democracy/All Peoples Party presidential candidate in the 1999 election, Chief Olu Falae, was not at the President Olusegun Obasanjo Declaration ceremony on Thursday last week.
		He explained that although the error was detected at the ceremony, the pressure of time and work did not allow the masters of ceremony to correct it.
		Falae had condemned the "dragging in" of his name to "give credit" to the ceremony when he was in Akure, Ondo State capital at the time.
	www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2002/05/03/20020503news20.html (250 words)

	CNN - Charges of vote fraud mar Obasanjo's lead in Nigerian poll - February 28, 1999
		Former finance minister Olu Falae disputed results which showed him more than five million votes behind Obasanjo, after 25 million ballot papers had been counted from 31 of Nigeria's 36 states.
		Falae's All People's Party was withdrawing from the vote-counting process, said Ayo Opakun, Falae's campaign director.
		There was also an upset in southeastern Ebonyi state, where Falae's alliance of parties overturned a previous large majority for Obasanjo's People's Democratic Party.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9902/28/nigeria.elections.03 (513 words)

	Former general returns to power in Nigerian election
		Obasanjo had captured 63 percent of the vote, while Falae took 37 percent, Nigerian election officials said Monday.
		Streets were calm in Nigeria's southwest, which voted overwhelmingly for Falae and has long been the center of Nigeria's democracy movement.
		Many southwesterners are deeply suspicious of Obasanjo's military ties - even though he gave up his position as junta leader in 1979, handing over power to a civilian government and was a political prisoner during the rule of former dictator Gen. Sani Abacha.
	www.stater.kent.edu /stories_old/99spring/030299/w2a.html (666 words)

	Jubilee 2000: News: : New President of Nigeria sweeps to victory and inherits a debt of $30 billion. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In a controversial election, Obasanjo won 60% of the votes in a run-off with Chief Olu Falae.
		Chief Olu Falae was the Finance Minister in the late 1980s.
		Both Falae and Obasanjo have pledged that there will be no investigation of the embezzlement of the country's oil income by the army's top brass.
	www.jubilee2000uk.org /jubilee2000/news/nigeria1203.html (712 words)

	News -- Falae blasts Obasanjo: He is a dictator
		Falae was presidential aspirant of the defunct Social Democratic Party and member, National Democratic Coalition (NADECO).
		Chief Olu Falae's Lagos home is an imposing building located in high-brow Victoria Island.
		When Chief Falae eventually came in, it was to cancel the appointment.
	odili.net /news/source/2004/jan/22/315.html (2952 words)

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