2023 Presidency: Tinubu or Peter Obi? Afenifere Gives Final Say
- The leadership of the Afenifere group has discredited Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu's meeting with the group on Sunday, October 30
- Pa Ayo Adebanjo said he is not a party to the meeting since the group has made its decision on whom it has endorsed for 2023
- For Adebanjo, it is the turn of the southeast to produce Nigeria's president and this is the group's final decision
The leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has revealed the group's position on whom it has endorsed ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
Pa Adebanjo, in his conversation with Daily Trust, said the Afenifere group has chosen Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) and that this decision is final.
Source: Twitter
Meeting with Tinubu diversionary - Adebanjo
He added that the recent meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, with the former leader of the group and a prominent Yoruba leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, was diversionary.
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Moreover, Adebanjo noted that the meeting, attended mostly by APC chieftains, was aimed at bringing him and Fasoranti into disagreement, The Punch added.
Adebanjo said he called Fasoranti on Sunday after the said meeting and warned him not to take part in the endorsement of Tinubu.
He said:
“The Yoruba People know their leader. I’ve spoken, the National Secretary has spoken. This is no the time to engage in polemics. The way forward is my position.
“What happened was a diversion. They want us to be engaged in arguments. Is that the issue now?
“Afenifere is not divided. That was why I said I don’t want to engage in polemics. They want to throw a wedge between me and Pa Reuben Fasoranti and I won’t allow it. The man phoned me yesterday and I warned him, don’t get yourself involved."
It's southeast's turn - Adebanjo
For him, in the spirit of justice and fairness, it is the turn of the southeast to produce a president, a position which, according to him, even the southwest cannot argue against.
His words:
“Can he (Tinubu) deny it that the South-West has not had its turn? Can he deny it south-south has not had its turn? They should answer that. As far as I am concerned, the meeting does not concern us as Afenifere."
2023 presidency: Solidarity message to Tinubu? PDP governor opens up on his loyalty in video
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo had spoken on whom he will back during the 2023 presidential election.
In a message sent through the state's deputy governor, Bayo Lawal, during the reception of Tinubu by Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of Afenifere, Seyi said he will stand with the Yoruba tribe in the coming election.
Makinde, as stated by Lawal, said that despite differences in political background between him and the All Progressives Congress (APC)'s flagbearer, his loyalty lies with the Yoruba people.
Source: Legit.ng
