Another RCCG Pastor, Laolu Akande Emerges as Osinbanjo's Speaker

Vice Presidential Spokesman, Mr. Laolu Akande in a warm embrace with Mr. Bayo Obisesan (r) at a parley with State House Correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Photo by Abayomi Adeshida

Pastor Laolu Akande a former North American Bureau Chief of The Guardian, has resumed as the spokesman of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
Pastor Akande was in the Aso Villa on Monday as President Muhammadu Buhari and his V.P officially relocated to the Aso-Villa.

Pastor Akande started his journalism career as a Reporter in 1989 writing for the Guardian titles and later moved over to the founding team of The News Magazine in 1993, where he became that magazine’s Senior Writer. In 1995 he joined Nigerian Tribune titled first as Special Projects Editor and later became the Editor of Tribune on Saturday in 1997, before he relocated to the US in 1998.

Hei is the longest serving correspondent at the United Nations, the only Nigerian to Interview a sitting President at the white house when he interviewed President George Bush.
He became a pastor in 2007 at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Jesus Friends Assembly in Long Island, New York. Pastor Akande is Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, CANAN’s Executive Director.