Chief Ayo Adebanjo, elder
statesman and Afenifere leader, has accused a former governor of Lagos, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, and some Yoruba leaders of deceiving President Muhammadu Buhari
that they are in support of his government.
According to him, they are
doing so with the hope that the presidency will support the zoning of the 2023
presidential ticket to the Southwest.
However, Adebanjo said
President Buhari is also playing along with them having realised that they are
not sincere in their dealing with him.
According to him, President
Buhari will never give Tinubu and his co-travellers what they want, which is
the presidency in 2023.
Adebanjo, who was reacting
to the recent visit of Tinubu and some Yoruba leaders to President Buhari,
described them as impostors who embarked on the visit for their selfish
interests and not because of the welfare of the Yoruba nation.
He also said that Tinubu
and his associates ought to have spoken to the president on the issue of
insecurity in the region, especially the invasion of farmlands by Fulani
herdsmen.
According to him, they only
went there to discuss the issue of true federalism which the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) has not shown any commitment to since coming to
power in 2015.
Adebanjo told Daily Independent,
“How many times will we continue to tell you these people are not Afenifere?
They are just fake. Nigerians know who the true Afenifere is. They are just
leaders of APC in South-West. When last did they come out as Afenifere except
when they want to go and deceive Buhari? They never said anything about
killings by Fulani herdsmen, instead they are talking about true federalism.
“Is Buhari sincere about
restructuring? Is that not the basis on which Tinubu was elected as governor?
They are just deceiving themselves. I don’t want to waste my time on them again
because they are just jokers. You don’t have to lay claim to Afenifere.
Nigerians know the real Afenifere.
“They were with us before
they chickened out. Now that you have left, why are you still laying claim to
that name? A cause we have been fighting before, you abandoned it because you
want to be president. They are fighting the cause of the Yoruba for their own
interest. It is clear that they don’t have the interest of the Yoruba at heart.
“They only go to Buhari
whenever they want to deceive him. They have been deceiving Buhari and Buhari
too is also deceiving them. What he wanted from Buhari, Buhari won’t give him.
Buhari too is deceiving them because he knows they are fake.
“Their visit is an attempt
to persuade Buhari that they are for him so that he can give them the slot for
presidency in 2023. But Buhari is not going to give them. He only needs them
for support during elections.
“Tinubu knows that. They
have used him before. Didn’t they use him before the election in 2015 only to
abandon him later? It was when the 2019 election was approaching that they
remembered him again,” he said.
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