W-A-R-N-I-N-G!!! Presidential Poll: The Grave Mistake Nigeria Cannot Afford – Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Afenifere leader. **North have the mentality that they are born to rule, picking a Yoruba VP is just a trick. **the Imbalance in Nigeria is why Buhari entered the army with recommendation letter, not the minimum requirement. **Buhari is a fundamentalist, that campaigned in the North and said Muslims should vote for Muslims. **INEC should disqualify Buhari from the race Pa Ayo Adebanjo, a leader of the Yoruba group, Afenifere, was a top member of the Action Group, led by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in the first republic. He also belonged to the Awolowo – led Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) in the second republic. At the inception of the latest democratic experiment in 1999, he joined the late Pa Abraham Adesanya and Chief Bola Ige, among others, to form the Alliance for Democracy which dominated the governments in the South-west. In this interview, he speaks on the state of the nation. Afenifere, unlike before, is no longer active. What is happening? Afenifere is still very active. In fact, very soon, we are going to meet in Akure, Ondo State. There is no doubt that there is some kind of division among us caused by some rebels who didn’t want the right thing to be done, because we are strictly Awolowo’s disciples,undiluted. We don’t modify Awo’s principles for our own interest, progressive is progressive; not progressive today and conservative tomorrow. Those who were never progressives, the moment they join you, they automatically become progressives. How are you resolving the challenge of people trying to twist the principles of Awo? We shall continue to say what is right for people to decipher. There are no two ways about it. What we are doing now is to ensure that you people follow the right path. The principle of Afenifere leaders, particularly myself, is to tell you the truth because lying and falsification of things have dominated the country. But there are a lot of people now calling themselves progressives? I will say all those ones are fake. All those the people in the then ACN that is now APC are fake progressives. How They are fake in the sense that they don’t pursue the principles of Awolowo. Take, for instance, the issue of federalism, you know we were part and parcel of National Democratic Coalition, NADECO. And during the NADECO days, we were the only ones shouting about the issue of Sovereign National Conference for the restructuring of the country because the federation was an awkward one. It was not balanced. And it was because the military choked us in 1966. The Constitution the colonialists gave us at independence was jettisoned after the 1966 coup. And that is why you saw arbitrary creation of states and local government areas because the people there were northerners. All those with us during the NADECO time that insisted on National Conference are the same set of people saying now that the Goodlock Jonathan conference was a diversion. That was what Bola Tinubu said. I have said it before, let him challenge it. Sovereign National Conference was one of the manifestoes we used in electing him into office as governor of Lagos State. Where do the Yoruba people stand in the February elections? I think that would also be a matter of principle. The question of South-south is a matter of principle of Papa Awolowo that a minority would also have the right to aim for the highest position in the country. That was what I was trying to point out about the recent National Conference we had. That conference has taken care of everything concerning Nigeria. Like the issue of power, it is no longer going to be the North-west, whenever it get to the North, it must rotate within all other regions in the North. The same thing for the South, it is no longer about South-west but all other regions in the South such that everybody now knows when each of the regions would be president, it is no longer the issue of we are born to rule. Why the South West are supporting Jonathan is because he is the only man who can [truncated by WhatsApp]
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:16:27 +0000
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