Tag: Pan-Yoruba group

2023 Presidency: Pan-Yoruba group accuses southern govs of overheating polity

Aminu Imam

A pan-Yoruba advocacy group, Yoruba Appraisal Forum, (YAF), yesterday claimed that the position canvased by Southern Governors ahead of the 2023 election is tantamount to “overheating the polity” and called for caution over the ongoing national debate on which part of the country will produce President Mohammadu Buhari’s successor. The Southern governors, at their meeting in Lagos earlier this week insisted that the presidency must rotate to the South in the coming dispensation, a position the YAF claimed is generating needless tension between the North and South. The group said…

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2023: Plans to retain presidency in the North dangerous – Pan-Yoruba group warns

Aminu Imam

As Northern group begins search for Buhari’s successor Meanwhile, the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Coalition of Oodua Self Determination Groups, (COSEG), has said that the plot by some northern politicians and elders to retain power in the Northern region beyond 2023, is dangerous. COSEG, in a statement issued in Lagos over the weekend, signed by its Chairman and Publicity Secretary, Dayo Ogunlana and Dele Daramola respectively, warned that presidency must shift to the South-West by 2023, or else key players in the North scheming to retain power and their political party…

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