Tag: Yinka Odumakin

Buhari, Osinbajo, Ekweremadu, South, Middle-Belt Leaders, others mourn Odumakin

Aminu Imam

The demise of the spokesman of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, has continued to elicit messages of grief with President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and former Deputy President of the Senate, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, expressing shock at his untimely death. A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media and Publicity) yesterday, recalled that Odumakin was also spokesman to the then Gen Buhari in 2011, when he ran for President on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), now defunct. The President recalled…

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“Tinubu is not the leader of Yoruba people” – Afenifere

Aminu Imam

The National Publicity Secretary of pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, yesterday said All Progressives Congress, (APC) chieftain, Bola Tinubu, is not the focal leader of the Yoruba people. Picture caption: Yinka Odumakin Odumakin, who spoke during an interview programme, said the Afenifere has not endorsed Tinubu, the Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, or any non-Yoruba aspirant for the 2023 presidency” The Afenifere spokesman also claimed that the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church in Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, still wants to run for president in 2023, adding that the…

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