Tag: South-west

Afenifere Leadership Crisis: Adebanjo insists that he remains leader

Aminu Imam

Acting leader of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, elder statesman, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has maintained that he is still the group’s leader. Adebanjo made his comments in an interview yesterday, in response to the claim by another Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, that he is the real leader of the group. Fasoranti had stated that the meeting of the socio-political group would henceforth hold in Akure, the Ondo State capital, and that the leaders of the group would no longer converge on Isoya Ogbo, the Ijebu home of Chief Ayo Adebanjo.…

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Insecurity: Gani Adams sets up new security plan to safeguard South-West

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The National Coordinator of Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Gani Adams, has inaugurated a new security arrangement to safeguard the zone against banditry, terrorism and other forms of criminal activities. The move, according to Adams, who is also the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land, was to strengthen the security architecture of the South West region. The security arrangement, known as ‘Oodua Dependable Security Team‘, has reportedly been launched in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo and Osun States already, with Ekiti and Ondo the only remaining States in the region. It was gathered…

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2023: Group accuses ‘Yoruba nation’ agitators of planning to truncate 2023 polls

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A group, the Yoruba Appraisal Forum, (YAF), has raised the alarm over alleged plans by those championing and agitating for secession of Yoruba land from the rest of Nigeria to cause violence and chaos in the South-West and other parts of the country with the ultimate objective of truncating the conduct of the 2023 general elections. The YAF National Coordinator, Adesina Animashaun, raised the alarm at a press conference in Lagos yesterday. Citing recent utterances by the leaders of the agitators that the group would achieve the secession of Yoruba…

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Self Determination: “Yoruba people are ready to leave Nigeria” – Prof. Akintoye writes Buhari

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Renowned historian and leader of an umbrella body of Yoruba self-determination groups: ‘Ilana Omo Oodua’, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari notifying him of the intention of the Yoruba ‘nation’ to leave Nigeria. In a letter dated August 6, 2022, Akintoye reportedly told Buhari that the letter was to formally give him “notice of the decision of the overwhelming majority of our Yoruba nation and people to exercise our right to self-determination to have our independent and sovereign country separate from the country of Nigeria”. According to him,…

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2023 Presidency: ‘All aspirants can contest’ – S/West APC leaders

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Leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-West geo-political zone have cautioned presidential hopefuls from the region against name-calling, saying all aspirants have a right to contest. The APC leaders disclosed this yesterday, at a meeting involving presidential hopefuls. The meeting was part of efforts to boost the region’s chances of securing the APC presidential ticket According to sources at the meeting, the APC leaders also advised presidential hopefuls to caution their supporters against personal attacks. A source at the meeting said, “The issue of betrayal was put…

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2023 Election: Tinubu’s allies to meet Osinbajo, Fayemi, Amosun in Lagos

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Leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) from the South-West geo-political zone will meet with presidential aspirants from the region on Friday, in Lagos. The meeting is being convened by the former Governor of Osun State, Chief Bisi Akande, founding chairman of APC, and former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, and other party stakeholders. The APC National Leader, Bola Tinubu, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, and Senator Ibikunle Amosun, former Governor of Ogun State, who have all declared interest to contest for the…

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

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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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Secessionist agitation: Crisis rocks Southern, M\Belt alliance as Akintoye pulls out

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A fresh crisis has rocked secessionist agitators in Southern Nigeria and the Middle-Belt as one of the arrowheads of the self-determination coalition, Prof. Banji Akintoye, resigned as the Chairman of the group known as the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination. Until his resignation, NINAS was the umbrella body of self-determination groups in the South and Middle-Belt regions of Nigeria, with Ilana Omo Oodua representing the Yoruba bloc, Lower Niger Congress, representing the South-East and South-South, and the Middle-Belt Rennaissance Movement representing the Middle-Belt region. Akintoye, in a statement issued…

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2023 Presidency: ‘APC’s potential candidate in South-West, not S/East’ – Yakasai to Umahi

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A former Special Adviser on Media to Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, has criticised Ebonyi State governor, Dave Umahi, over his posture that the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) will zone the 2023 Presidency to the South-East geo-political zone of the country. Yakasai, who stated this on Friday, as a guest on a television programme, said Umahi would be missing it if his reason for decamping from the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), to the APC in November 2020 was for the ruling party to zone the 2023…

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2023 Presidency: “APC S/West zone waiting for our ‘Capone’ Tinubu to decide”– Ondo Gov. Akeredolu

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Ondo State governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has said leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) in the South-West are currently waiting for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State and National Leader of the party to return to Nigeria and decide whether he will be vying for the presidency in the 2023 general elections or not. Akeredolu, who is the Chairman of the Southern Governors Forum, (SGF), disclosed this yesterday, in an interview on a television programme. It could be recalled that Tinubu is currently recuperating in London after…

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