Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo
Adebanjo in a recent
interview talked on the
leadership style of president
Muhammad Buhari and the
Involvement of the All
Progressive Congress
National Leader, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, in the affairs of the
country.
What do you think of the
rift between the
chairman of the All
progressive Congress,
Chief John Odigie -
Oyegun, and the APC
National Leader,
Asiwaju Tinubu?
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, was
used by the people who do
not have the interest of the
Yoruba ‘s at heart. He chose
to follow the President
sheepishly, despite my
warnings to him that Buhari,
has not changed. Bola
Tinubu, chose to blindly
support Buhari. I am not
concerned about the APC
politics, but rather what is
happening in the party is
more than a gang up against
Tinubu. I am worried for
Tinubu, because he is the
voice of the Yoruba people.
Is there any link
between it and the socio
-political crisis in
Nigeria?
That is the reason we are
having problems in Nigeria
today. You have the
Movement for the
Actualization of the
Sovereign state of Biafra,
the Niger Delta Avengers,
and the Indigenous People of
Biafra. It is a question of the
constitution of the nation.
It’s unfortunate that some
people are blindly following
Buhari hoping he will share
power with them.
I agree with the people who
said Tinubu made a mistake
to have supported Buhari to
emerge as Nigeria’s
President. The APC is a
melting pot of various
interest groups; you have
the Tinubu group, the Buhari
group and the other groups.
If the ruling party is
fragmented then we are in a
mess. The mess was evident
from the beginning of this
administration when the
party could not agree on who
should take positions in the
National Assembly. The APC
is characterized by personal
reasons, selfishness, and
narrow-mindedness. They
came together without a
definite purpose on what to
take to the government.
What is the way
forward?
I wish Tinubu can get things
right, regroup and get out of
the unholy alliance he got
himself involved in, for the
benefit of the Yoruba nation
and the south. In 2019,there
will be no APC and if there is,
it won’t be in this form.