Tag: Afenifere

‘2023 polls, time to rewrite Nigeria’s history’ – Ohanaeze, Arewa, Afenifere youths, others

Aminu Imam

Apex youth organisations in the country, including the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Yoruba Youth Council, Niger-Delta Youth Coalition, National Youth Council of Nigeria and other similar bodies, yesterday concluded what they described as “strategic dialogue’, with a call on young people to seize the opportunity of the 2023 polls to make their voices heard and also re-write the nation’s history. The leaders of the youth groups made the call at a world press conference in Abuja, with the theme: “The Youths have awakened for a…

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2023: “We won’t accept election postponement” – Afenifere vows

Aminu Imam

The apex Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has said it won’t accept the idea of postponing the 2023 general elections, scheduled to hold between February and March this year. The Afenifere National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, warned that whoever may be thinking of postponing or altering the elections’ calendar should know that such a thing would not be accepted. Ajayi, however, welcomed the assurance by the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, that the elections would hold in all parts of Nigeria. He further said, “But we feel that there is…

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LG Funds: Buhari, Govs. row deepens, as Afenifere, CNG, Ohanaeze, PANDEF wade in

Aminu Imam

…Demands Constitutional amendment  Apparently miffed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s allegation that State governors steal funds meant for Local Government Areas, LGAs, regional groups have urged the President to back the claim with evidence and name state governors pilfering the funds. The groups also demanded a Constitution amendment on local government autonomy, saying gaps in the constitution made it possible for governors to have influence over LGAs. In separate chats with newsmen, they said the President shouldn’t stop at raising the alarm but also ensure that necessary actions are initiated against…

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2023: Afenifere endorses Tinubu, -says APC candidate can fix Nigeria

Aminu Imam

The leading pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, yesterday endorsed All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The decision was contained in an issued statement by the group after the visit of Tinubu to its leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, and other leaders in Akure, the Ondo State capital. The statement by the National Organising Secretary of Afenifere, Abagun Kole Omololu said leaders of the organisation from in the South-West, Kogi and Kwara States expressed confidence in the ability of Tinubu to lead the country out of the woods. Afenifere…

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2023: Disquiet in Afenifere over Adebanjo’s support for Peter Obi

Aminu Imam

The crack in the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, last week became a gulf, following the declared support of its leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi. For the past few months, the organisation has been divided over two presidential candidates, with Peter Obi, of Igbo extraction, and Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). The division arises from the fact that some members such as Chief Olu Falae have rejected such support on the basis that instead, a Yoruba in the…

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2023: Afenifere not Yoruba mouthpiece, says OPC-R

Aminu Imam

A group, the Oodua People’ Congress Reformed (OPC-R) has urged Nigerians not to mistake Afenifere’s views in support of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi as that of the Yoruba race. In a statement issued on Friday in Lagos, the OPC-R President, Chief Dare Adesope, said Afenifere’s leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, should not present himself as a mouthpiece of Yoruba people. He said: “Afenifere has not represented Yoruba well; I challenge them to come out and explain how well they have represented us from the moment we…

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2023: Yoruba welfare group reacts as Afenifere dumps Tinubu for Peter Obi

Aminu Imam

A foremost socio-cultural group, the Yoruba Welfare Group, (YWG), has berated the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, for dumping Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to endorse another candidate who is not a Yoruba man for the 2023 general elections. The group, in a statement issued by its President, AbdulHakeem Alawuje, noted that the Afenifere is not protecting the interest of the Yoruba Nation movement by endorsing Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). Recall that the Afenifere had endorsed the former Governor of Anambra State…

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Nigerian Porous Borders: ‘Report about unmanned borders in N’East, N’West worrisome’ – Afenifere

Aminu Imam

The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, yesterday described the disclosure that more than half of the borders in the North-East and North-West of Nigeria are unguarded as very worrisome and disturbing due to the immense danger it poses to the security of the citizens. Afenifere gave this position in a release made available to newsmen by its spokesperson, Comrade Jare Ajayi, expressing regret that less than a year to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the government was yet to take necessary steps on what the Army Chief considered as…

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2023: Afenifere dumps Tinubu, declares support for Peter Obi

Aminu Imam

The leader of the pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has endorsed Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the 2023 presidency. Adebanjo gave the endorsement while speaking on an online radio programme, yesterday. He said Obi has the ability to “rule independently” and would not disappoint Nigeria. He said he has lost confidence in Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) flag bearer, as well as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. According to him, “It is only Peter…

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‘Attack on President’s convoy, Kuje prison ominous signs for nation under siege’ ? Afenifere

Aminu Imam

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, said the attack on the advance Presidential team to Daura, the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari and the explosive attack on Kuje Prison in Abuja, are affirmations that the insecurity situation in Nigeria is getting out of hand at a rate faster than is acknowledged by the authorities who should deal with it. The National Publicity Secretary of the organization, Comrade Jare Ajayi, in a release issued in Ibadan, yesterday, regretted that the two attacks were not isolated as reports of terrorism attacks occasioning…

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