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Tinubu meets Afenifere leader, vows tough action against threats to Nigeria’s sovereignty

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President Bola Tinubu yesterday promised harsh consequences for persons who pit themselves against Nigeria’s sovereignty and security. Tinubu stated his administration’s position when he received leaders of the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, at the State House in Abuja yesterday. The President also said his administration has made considerable gains against banditry and kidnapping through intensified campaigns buoyed by intelligence-gathering. “Those who think they can threaten the sovereignty of Nigeria will have themselves to blame. They have a price to pay. And we are not going to relent”, he stressed The…

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“Restructure now or Nigeria would go under” – Afenifere leader, Ayo Adebanjo

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Chieftain of  the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Ayo Adebanjo, says hunger protests, insecurity challenges and the slide of the naira are signs that Nigeria is heading for a collapse. Adebanjo, who stated this at tge weekend, said until Nigeria’s Constitution is restructured to reflect true federalism, the country would not enjoy peace. The elder statesman’s comments come amid the plan by the national assembly to amend the 1999 Constitution. With 40 amendment bills received so far, the constitution review committee is expected to be inaugurated on Monday, February 26. While…

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Afenifere Leadership Crisis: Adebanjo insists that he remains leader

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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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2023: “We won’t support Tinubu’s presidential aspiration, for national peace” – Afenifere

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The Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has said that its decision not to support the presidential aspiration of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is taken in the interest of national peace. Speaking on which television programme yesterday, the National Secretary of the organisation, Sola Ebiseni, said that Afenifere won’t support Tinubu because of justice and equity, stressing that if power comes to the South it must go to the South-East region which is the only Southern region that has not produced a president. “If…

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

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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: ‘Peter Obi fighting for oppressed Nigerian’ – Adebanjo

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The leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, and elder statesman, Pa Adebanjo, has said that Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, (LP), is fighting for the oppressed people of Nigeria, and therefore shares the same cause as him. Adebanjo, who had endorsed the former Anambra State governor, hosted him alongside the leadership of the Southern and Middle-Belt Forum (SMBLF), on Tuesday. Speaking on the meeting in an interview during a television programme yesterday, Adebanjo said Obi believes in Nigeria’s restructuring and is fighting for oppressed Nigerians. According…

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Nigeria must be restructured before any ‘fraudulent election in 2023’ – Afenifere insists

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The Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has said Nigeria has to be substantially restructured before any “fraudulent elections might be held in 2023”. The Acting Leader of the group, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, took this position while addressing a press conference at Wheat Baker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos, yesterday. The elder statesman, who restated Afenifere’s position ahead of the 2023 election, said the response of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to what he termed ‘the equitable demands for restructuring’, in order to restore Nigeria to its roots and original agreements, shall go a long…

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2023: “We won’t allow any presidential candidate use nation’s restructuring as campaign material” – Afenifere warns

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The pan- Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has declared that it will not allow presidential candidates of any political party to use the promise to restructure Nigeria as a campaign tool in the 2023 Presidential Election. In an interview with newsmen, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, elder statesman and acting national leader of the organisation, said the issue of Nigeria’s restructuring is long overdue and must be settled before the 2023 General Elections. On why Afenifere is taking the position, Adebanjo said that many advocates of restructuring usually use it as a campaign…

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Independence Day speech: “You were a child when we negotiated Nigeria’s Independence”, Adebanjo to Buhari

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Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), for saying that Nigeria’s unity is not negotiable. Adebanjo said that Buhari, who is 78-years-old, ought to have known that Nigeria’s Independence and terms of unity were negotiated in the 1950s, but the President was a “small boy at the time, hence his ignorance”. The 93-year-old Afenifere leader said this during a live chat with newsmen yesterday while responding to the President’s Independence Day speech. Recall that President Buhari had said that the unity of Nigeria remains non-negotiable. However,…

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Fasoranti steps down as Afenifere leader

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The National Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political association, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, has stepped down as the leader of the association.  He announced his stepping down at the group’s monthly meeting in Akure, the Ondo state capital.  The 95-year-old elder statesman cited old age as the major reason for his decision.  However, Pa Fasoranti named the deputy leader of the group, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, as the Acting National Leader while the former financial secretary of the group, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, the Alaago of Kajola Ago, Atakumosa-East Council Area, Ilesa, Osun State, was named as the group’s deputy…

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