National Conscience Party Lagos State

*Biography of Late Comrade Ayodele Samuel Akele*

He was born on 11th Nov 1948 to the Family of Late Reuben Akele in Ibaka Quarter Akungba Akoko Ondo State
Comrade Ayodele Akele, a former chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Lagos state chapter.
Akele Ayodele was the Secretary-General of the National Conscience Party (NCP), the party founded by the late Gani Fawehinmi of blessed memory
A formal General Secretary of National Association of Nigerian Students, Committed, incorruptible trade union leader, agitator, mobilizer popular called "Iturity"
A formal Students Union President of Yaba Tech.
At the time of his death, he was National General Secretary of the National Conscience Party (NCP).
As a quantity surveyor, he worked at the Lagos State Property Development Corporation (LSPDC) from where he was elected Lagos State Chairman of the National Union Public Corporations Employees (NUPCE) in the late 1980s till 1996 when NUPCE along with CSTWUN and RSEU, merged to form the Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations Civil Service Technical and Recreation Services Employees (AUPCTRE).
Beloved by rank and file workers who had implicit trust in him, he was elected as the first Lagos State Chairman of AUPCTRE, a position he held until he was sacked as an employee of LSDPC by the military governor Brigadier General Buba Marwa, for his union activities.
As soon as the new civilian government of Bola Tinubu was sworn-in on 29 May 1999, leaders of public sector unions in the state demanded the reinstatement of Akele. Playing the card of a NADECO “fighter for democracy” card, Tinubu promptly heeded the call.
Reinstated and fired
In his first speech on being reinstated, Akele immediately amplified calls for action to reinstate workers who had been sacked by Tinubu (yes, one of the first things the AD government did in Lagos was sack thousands of public sector workers in the name of “rationalisation”, starting within its first month in power!