APC AND THE YORUBA AGENDA IN 2015! Predictably, the presidents closed door meeting with four of the South West APC governors which took place at the Presidential Villa last Tuesday, generated a lot of reactions, misgivings and apprehension both within and outside the party. This highly polarized reaction stemmed out of the revelation that, the APC leadership is not privacy to the meeting. The 4 APC governors that attended the meeting were, Babatunde Fashola Lagos, Kayode Fayemi Ekiti, Ibikunle Amousun Ogun, and Rauf Aregbesola Osun. While the APC governor from Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi was absent. The worry both within and outside the APC was for three reasons; 1) that the said meeting was not known to the APC before it was held. 2) that judging from the attitude of the defunct ACN governors who refused to support their own (ACN) candidate{Ribadu} during the 2011 presidential election, but instead supported the PDP candidate {Jonathan}, the said meeting had a hidden agenda, and it was preparatory to how the South West APC governors could repeat the gesture they did to the President comes 2015 general election. 3) that given the general misgivings, rightly or wrongly of how the publics of other ethnic groups perceived the character of the Yoruba race as political hypocrites, deceivers, untruthful, there fishy disposition, that they are unpredictable, unreliable and generally untrustworthy. For example, during the 2011 presidential election, result of the votes both Ribadu (there own candidate) and what Johnathan (PDP candidate) got clearly confirmed the misgivings and mutual suspicion of the Yoruba race in the affirmative. In Ekiti state Jonathan (PDP) polled 135,009, the ACN candidate Ribadu polled 116,981. In Lagos state, Jonathan (PDP) polled 1,281,688, while ACN candidate Ribadu polled 427,203. In Ogun state Jonathan (PDP) polled 309,177, while the ACN candidate Ribadu polled 199,555. In Ondo state Jonathan (PDP) polled 387, 376, while ACN candidate Ribadu polled 74,253. In Osun state Jonathan (PDP) polled 188,409, while ACN candidate Ribadu polled 299,711. In Oyo state Jonathan (PDP) candidate polled 484,758, while the ACN candidate Ribadu polled 252,240. From the result of the votes from South West which is the ACN strong hold, there candidate only managed to be voted by majority margin in Osun state, while in the 5 majority ACN states, the PDP candidate, Jonathan won with a landslide. This decimal performance of the ACNs supposedly presidential candidate in the region where he ought to have got the highest votes, has further called to question the Yoruba sincerity and political commitment to any candidature other than their own, even if such a candidate is being sponsored by them as was the case with Ribadu. It is instructive to note however, few weeks ago, Ribadu came out and defended the Yorubas and the South West; that they did not abandoned him during the said 2011 presidential election. He claimed that the reason why the Yorubas or ACN did not vote for him, was because they were all aware that he had stepped down for Buhari few days to the Presidential election. According to Ribadu, the ACN had no candidate, as such they did not vote for the ACN. On why they refused to vote for the CPC candidate whom he claimed to have stepped down for, Ribadu claimed that it was because, both the ACN and the CPC could not agree on certain agreements or conditions proffered by the ACN. What ever is the perception of people on the Yorubas, now that they are fully involved as one of the major stockholders in the APC project, only 2015 shall mystify or demystify their true colour and character. If the five South West states currently being governed by the APC unanimously refused to vote for the presidential candidate of the APC regardless of who ever is the partys candidate, only then can we join issues with the people that gave the Yorubas the unreliability, lack of sincerity, untruthfulness, and unpredictability toga.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:52:17 +0000
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