Reminiscences with Gen Ipoola Alani Akinrinade
General Ipoola Alani Akinrinade , Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff from October 1979 to April 1980 and Chief of Defence Staff until 1981, will clock 80 years in October this year. Akinrinade voluntarily retired from service on October 2, 1981. He was also a Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Development from 1985 to 1986. He was a member of the National Democratic Coalition , a pro-democracy group that confronted the Gen Sani Abacha regime.
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