Tag: Afenifere

‘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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2023 PDP Running Mate: “You’ve betrayed us” – Afenifere, Ohanaeze to Okowa

Aminu Imam

The Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF) has berated Senate Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State for accepting his nomination as running mate to Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. In an issued press statement signed by leaders of four groups, which include Chief Edwin Clark, for the Southern and Middle-Belt Leaders’ Forum (SMBLF) and the pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF); Chief Ayo Adebanjo, leader of Afenifere; Dr. Dru Bitrus, the President-General, Middle Belt Forum and Prof. George Obiozor, the President-General,…

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Afenifere advocates Government of National Unity to tackle insecurity

Aminu Imam

…Says Buhari lacks capacity The Yoruba social-political organisation, Afenifere, has advocated for a Government of National Unity to tackle insecurity and other problems in the country. The organisation maintained that the situation in the country is in a more decisive manner, stressing that given the seriousness of the situation and because the present administration under President Muhammadu Buhari has shown that it is incapable and unwilling to tackle the identified problems necessitated the call for a Government of the National Unity. The meeting, which was held at the country home…

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“We won’t compromise South-West security” – Afenifere, Akeredolu

Aminu Imam

The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, and the chairman of the South-West Governors’ Forum and Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, have declared that the security of lives and property of the people of the South-West remains important to the governments of the region. Akeredolu, while reacting to the allegation of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF) that the State’s security outfit, Amotekun, was being used arbitrarily against northerners in the State, said security remained one of the pillars of his administration and he would not relent in investing in the security…

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2023: Afenifere dumps S/West aspirants, backs S/East
…Warns against gang-up

Aminu Imam

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, said any attempt to deny the South-East the presidency in 2023 is a gang-up against the region, which is dominated by the Ndigbo. Afenifere leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, in a chat with newsmen, said those opposed to Igbo President are discriminatory against the region. The statement was interpreted in many politically informed circles to mean that the group may not back a Yoruba aspirant for the nation’s highest office in 2023. Vice – President Yemi Osinbajo and All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju…

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Insecurity: Arewa, Afenifere, Ohanaeze, MBF set agenda for Buhari

Aminu Imam

President Muhammadu Buhari has been challenged to go beyond “mere rhetoric” and muster the political will to end the unending insecurity and immediately restore peace and prosperity across the country. The pan-Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the Middle-Belt Forum, (MBF), the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere and the Arewa Consultative Forum were among groups and individuals who, yesterday, advised the APC-led Federal Government on what to do to bring about peace as the New Year kicks off. Specifically, the MBF decried the plight of people of the Middle-Belt, who it said…

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Northisbleeding protest: NEF, Afenifere, Ohanaeze knock Buhari over carnage in North

Aminu Imam

The Northern Elders Forum, (NEF), the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere and the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, have knocked the President Muhammadu Buhari over kidnappings and killings by bandits in the North. There were series of protests in the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), and in some States in the North. The protesters had converged on the Ayuba Wabba House in Abuja, demanding an end to the insecurity in the region. Armed with placards bearing inscriptions that said: ‘Buhari is a weak Army General’; ‘Northern region is bleeding, Buhari…

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“Nigeria is in trouble, seek help” Afenifere urges Buhari

Aminu Imam

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to see the security situation in the country as warlike and one that requires recalling retired intelligence officers to complement the efforts of existing security organs. Afenifere, in an issued statement on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, urged the President to be decisive in confronting the security situation in order to prevent the country from collapsing. The organisation stated that apart from the bomb blast that happened in Maiduguri on Thursday, the day President Buhari visited…

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Rivers State VAT judgment: Afenifere asks States to rise, defend federalism

Aminu Imam

The pan-Yoruba organisation, Afenifere, has called on States of the federation to explore areas in the 1999 Constitution they can use to deepen federalism in Nigeria. The group, which was speaking against the backdrop of the recent Federal High Court that gave the Rivers State government the right to collct Value-Added Tax (VAT) within the State, called on States of the federation to use the opportunity provided by the Rivers State judgments to explore other areas that the Constitution empowers them to assert themselves as federalists. In a statement issued…

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“No indigenous Fulani in Yorubaland”, Afenifere group tells MACBAN

Aminu Imam

The Afenifere Renewal Group, (ARG), yesterday warned the Miyetti-Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, (MACBAN), against the deliberate misrepresentation of the indigenous demography of Yorubaland, saying there is no Fulani settlement in any part of the South-West region that fits the dictionary definition of the word ‘indigenous’. The MACBAN Secretary-General, Usman Baba-Ngelzerma, was quoted to have, during a live televinterview, said: “In Ondo and most of the southern States, we have indigenous pastoralists whose fathers were brought up in those states and those who are there today were also brought…

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