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  • Presidency: It’s time for South-East – Afenifere leader, Adebanjo opens up

    Presidency: It’s time for South-East – Afenifere leader, Adebanjo opens up

    Leader of Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has told presidential aspirants from the South-West geopolitical zone including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, to forget their presidential ambitions.

    Adebanjo said it was the turn of the igbos to become Nigeria’s president saying it’s long overdue.

    He said the South-East should produce Nigeria’s next President after the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari in May 2023.

    Adebanjo made this stand in an interview by journalist in Lagos on Tuesday.

    According to him, it is an injustice for a South-West President to emerge in 2023 after ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo from Ogun State had ruled from 1999 to 2007; while Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, also from Ogun State, has been in government since May 2015 and would have spent eight years in power by May 2023.

    He added that the South-West zone has been ably represented in the presidency too, claiming now the Igbos should have it.

    He said the South-South had both President and Vice-President positions with ex-President Goodluck Jonathan between 2007 and 2010 (as VP) and from 2010 to 2015 (as President).

    The 94 year-old man said that the country should be secured first of all ,saying security of lives and properties should come first.

    “Right now, is there a country for them to be President? There must be one country first before you can talk of an election. Is this the country Jonathan handed over to Buhari? Whether a Southern or a Northern candidate, let us unite everyone. We can’t get everyone united until we change this constitution.

  • KADUNA AIRPORT INVASION BY TERRORISTS: Afenifere tasks President Buhari on security

    KADUNA AIRPORT INVASION BY TERRORISTS: Afenifere tasks President Buhari on security

    Following Saturday’s invasion of Kaduna Airport by terrorists, the pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to do everything to stop Nigeria from going the Afghanistan way where terrorists took over government.

    The group, in a statement on Sunday by its National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, described the invasion of Kaduna Airport by terrorists as an indication of how bad the level the nation’s security situation has reached.

    Recall that 200 terrorists had invaded the airport on Saturday, killing one person and injuring many.

    According to the group, what happened in Kaduna on the day the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was having its national convention in Abuja, was a warning that some people seem to be bent on re-enacting the Afghanistan situation in Nigeria.

    Afenifere then called on all those who believe in freedom, peaceful co-existence, personal liberty, true knowledge and progress to rise up with a view to ensuring that those who should act do so immediately.

    The group listed some security infractions that took place between Friday and Saturday in parts of the country and regretted that it was as though the country was at war in those areas where the incidents occurred.

    Afenifere said communities were sacked in Kaduna, Niger and Enugu States, leading to the loss of lives and burning down of property.

    The group said, “It is a matter of serious concern that these security infractions happened at a time that government kept assuring us that it is on top of the situation.

    “Some of these attacks by terrorists even occurred in broad daylight, that of Kaduna airport and that of Enugu for instance. That terrorists have the audacity to attack a national airport despite all the available security apparatus means that there is hardly anywhere that is safe any longer in the country.

    “The Federal Government should immediately allow states to set up their own police forces, empower the existing security agencies and stop treating terrorists with kid gloves. These must be done immediately so that Nigeria does not go the Afghanistan way!”

    The group called on Buhari to use the remaining 14 months left in his tenure to reverse the ugly fate that has bedevilled the country in all spheres of life.