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Afenifere chieftain had earlier declared support of the group for the
LP presidential candidate in an online radio programme.
 The leader of Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Pa Ayo
Adebanjo has maintained that the group is supporting Peter Obi in the
2023 presidential election.
Adebanjo said this as he maintained that the group will not support Bola Tinubu or Atiku Abubakar.
The Afenifere chieftain had earlier declared support of the group
for the LP presidential candidate in an online radio programme, ‘Yoruba
Gbode’, where he said, “Peter Obi can rule independently without the
influence of those criminals in the government, stressing, “Tinubu will
only give continuity to Buhari’s incompetence.”
In a statement made available to The PUNCH on Monday, September 26, 2022, titled, “Why Afenifere Supports South East Presidential Candidate for 2023 Presidency”
in response to the spokesperson for the All Progressives Presidential
Campaign Council, Mr Bayo Onanuga’s Facebook post accusing him
(Adebanjo) of speaking for himself and not the group, Adebanjo said, “Before
the political parties conducted their primaries, a journalist asked,
what is my view about the 2023 general election? I answered and said the
country should be restructured before the general election, and he
followed up by asking if there should be an election, which zone should
the Presidency come from? And I unhesitatingly said, of course, the
South-East.
“After the primaries and the candidates emerged with Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu from the South-West, APC; Atiku Abubakar on the platform of
the PDP and Peter Obi on the platform of Labour Party and I announced
Afenifere’s support for Peter Obi, not a few Yoruba leaders question why
I should be supporting Peter Obi, a candidate of the Igbo extraction
against Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a Yoruba.”
Adebanjo explained that the presidency is not a contest between the
Yoruba and the Igbo, adding that Afenifere is a Yoruba interpretation
of the social welfarist ideology of the then Action Group, a political
party founded by Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his colleagues in 1951 which
advocated federalism as the best form of government to enable the
federating units the autonomy to thrive and for peace to ultimately
dwell in the country.
Continuing, Adebanjo asserted that the group was contributing to
shaping Nigeria into a federation where no person or ethnic nationality
would be sidelined or oppressed.
“In the countdown to the 2023 General Election, long before the
parties conducted their Conventions to elect their National Executives
and candidates, we had insisted and still advocate restructuring before
the elections proposing a synthesis of the identical Resolutions of the
2014 National Conference and the APC El-Rufai 2018 True Federalism
Committee.
“We did this as Afenifere and on the wider spectrum of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum.
“We did this, when politicians, in spite of the monumental
crises confronting the nation, carried on as if the attainment of power
was all that mattered, the SMBLF unanimously proposed that the minimum
condition for a peaceful transition from the disastrous eight years of
Buhari’s government headed by a President of northern extraction was to
have the next President from the South.”
The nonagenarian maintained that the quest for peace based on
equity and inclusiveness had resulted in Yoruba taking the first turn of
zoning arrangement in 1999 that brought in former President Olusegun
Obasanjo, and the North taking a turn, rotating back to Yoruba being the
Vice President under a President from the northwest axis while the
South-East is marginalised.
He, however, appealed for presidential power to be ceded to the
Igbo people of the South-East since power has rotated back to the South
for equity.
“Peter Obi is the person of Igbo extraction that Afenifere has
decided to support and back. He is the man we trust to restructure the
country back to federalism on the assumption of office.
“To keep Nigeria one, everyone should be Obi-Datti compliant,” he added. |
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