Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has reaffirmed its support for the presidential ambition of Labour Party flag-bearer Peter Obi.
The Yoruba group assured Nigerians that it won’t compromise its cherished principles of justice, equity, and inclusiveness.
Afenifere’s leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, stated this at a press conference held Monday, at the Wheatbaker Hotel in the Ikoyi area of Lagos.
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94-year-old Adebanjo said to keep Nigeria one in 2023, every Nigeria should be “Obi-Datti compliant”. Obi is running for Aso Rock’s top job alongside Datti Baba-Ahmed.
“The South-West has produced a president and currently sits as vice-president, the South-South has spent a total of six years in the presidency but the Igbo people of the South-East have never tasted presidency in Nigeria, and now that the power is due back in the South, equity demands that it be ceded to the Igbo,” he said.
“We cannot continue to demand that the Igbo people remain in Nigeria, while we at the same time continue to brutally marginalize and exclude them from the power dynamic.
“Peter Obi is the person of Igbo extraction that Afenifere has decided to support and back, he is the man we trust to restructure the country back to federalism on the assumption of office.
“We will not compromise this principle of justice, equity, and inclusiveness because one of our own Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is a frontline candidate,” he added.