Augustus Akinloye
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'Chief Augustus Meredith Adisa Akinloye' ( popularly known as A.M.A ) was born on 19 August 1916 in Ibadan, south-west Nigeria. He read law at the London School of Economics between 1946 and 1948. Upon his return to Nigeria, he briefly worked as a lawyer before venturing into politics.
Adisa Akinloye was instrumental to the formation of the first ever political party in Ibadan called Ibadan Peoples Party (IPP) which he served as its president with Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu "penkelemesi" as his deputy. His IPP party later merged with the Action Group party led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo to form the first government in the Western Region of Nigeria where he was appointed the pioneer Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources;during the second half of 1950s he was elected Chairman of Ibadan City Council.
During the western region crisis in the early 1960s, he left the Action Group party to Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola's newly formed Nigerian National Democratic Party and served in the federal cabinet led by the then Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.The government was overthrown by some young military officers on 15 January 1966.
He was also the national leader and Chairman of the National Party of Nigeria, which ruled the country between 1979 and 1983 when Alhaji Shehu Shagari was president. Akinloye went into exile in 1983 after his party was overthrown by the military government headed by General Muhammadu Buhari and returned to Nigeria after ten years when the interim government led by Chief Earnest Shonekan was in place.
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