A chieftain of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo says he and other leaders are not impressed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration that June 12 will henceforth replace May 29 as Nigeria’s Democracy Day in honour of the late Chief Moshood Abiola.

He also stated that they were also not excited about the conferment of the award of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, GCFR, on the late businessman.

The elder statesman said this in a chat with Punch.

He said: “But if he (Buhari) has now done it because the presidential election is coming, well, he cannot bamboozle anybody with that. What we are saying is that if he wants to honour the memory of Abiola and June 12, he should implement what June 12 stands for, which is good governance and democracy.

“He should restructure the country before the elections to show his genuineness and not just be playing to the gallery. This is because all that June 12 stands for is democracy and good governance. It is not about people being killed right, left and centre and pretending that you don’t know what is happening.

“It is not people being killed every day and after three months, you now wake up and say you are beefing up security. People have been complaining about the awkwardness of the lopsided appointments of heads of security agencies since you came into office, but it was not until now that the vice president (Prof. Yemi Osinbajo) said, “Oh yes, we are going to review it” – because election is approaching.

“We are no fools in this country. He should know that many of us have not got cattle brain, we are well educated and we know what we want. Nobody can come and bamboozle us because elections are coming. It is just like he said in 2015 that he was a born-again democrat. Now, he has shown us that he is a dictator. We are not moved by it. It is a welcome idea and yes, it is a thing that ought to have been done. But that he is now doing it because elections are coming, I am not excited by that at all.”

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/06/mko-abiola-why-buharis-declaration.html

His kinsmen here will come fr his head!!!!

He said: “But if....Buhari has now done it because the presidential election is coming, well, he cannot bamboozle anybody with that.

What we are saying is that if he wants to honour the memory of Abiola and June 12, he should implement what June 12 stands for, which is good governance and democracy.

“He should restructure the country before the elections to show his genuineness and not just be playing to the gallery.
This is because all that June 12 stands for is democracy and good governance. It is not about people being killed right, left and centre and pretending that you don’t know what is happening.

“It is not people being killed every day and after three months, you now wake up and say you are beefing up security.
People have been complaining about the awkwardness of the lopsided appointments of heads of security agencies since you came into office, but it was not until now that the vice president (Prof. Yemi Osinbajo) said, “Oh yes, we are going to review it” – because election is approaching.

“We are no fools in this country. He should know that many of us have not got cattle brain, we are well educated and we know what we want. Nobody can come and bamboozle us because elections are coming.

It is just like he said in 2015 that he was a born-again democrat. Now, he has shown us that he is a dictator. We are not moved by it. It is a welcome idea and yes, it is a thing that ought to have been done. But that he is now doing it because elections are coming, I am not excited by that at all.”

These are the kind of true Yorubas that demands equity & justice.A mindset every reasonable Nigerian should have.You don't dangle any carrots before them.

Nonsense old age dey worry him.buhari has done well and he deserve second time.

the real yerobas talking not those illegal immigrants sophisticated morrons

God bless yerobas Christians
God bless real yerobas

-OBJ betrayed Awo to grant Shagari the presidency.
-Abiola was betrayed by Yorubas to trade away his hard earned national mandate when Abacha bared his fangs.
-Oladipo Diya & co were condemned by their kits & kin even before Abacha unveiled his real intension in the phantom coup of 1995.
-OBJ betrayed Afeniferi even insulting them only to shamelessly.
come back to same people recently as the case of the chicken coming back to roost.
-Tinubu was being undermined by the like of Fashola,Fayemi,Amosu to consolidate their grip on power in the present government.
-Same race is telling Nigerians that Buhari who leagued with Abacha to deny Abiola his mandate & even killed Kudira is a hero because he actualized June-12? So much for us as a nation.

remi1444:
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God bless you for rebroadcasting.

Paperwhite:
God bless you for rebroadcasting.

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These are the sensible yorubas that we used to know in the 90s until Tinubu became governor, amassed trillions in ill-gotten wealth and took over SW

Bizibi:
His kinsmen here will come fr his head!!!!

You mean the children in here abi!

nku5:
These are the sensible yorubas that we used to know in the 90s until Tinubu became governor, amassed trillions in ill-gotten wealth and took over SW

This is absolute the truest wisdom as shown by Chief Adebanjo. Only those who are lost on history and are plainly shallow are celebrating this gimmick. Such people that were zombied in 2015!

Lipscomb:
Nonsense old age dey worry him.buhari has done well and he deserve second time.

yes,he deserves it for the making June 12 an achievement......

Please Buhari making June 12th a Holiday does not make up for the evil he is planning!

From taking the waterways he can give it to the Fulani herdsmen and since it's federal land, state govs cant stop the Fulani invasion!
To the killing of Christians!

Please my Yoruba neighbours be wise oh!
As one Yoruba man has already said, Yoruba Land is under siege!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwD-FZocU9U

Good to see that some of them are not fazed by the useless gesture.

Gull

Who gave this man right to speak for the yorubas, the last time i checked, you did not consult me nor my elected representatives TO ISSUE A LUDICROUS statement on my behalf.
I am happy MKO's effort is recognized but that doesn't mean i would vote for him sha
i witnessed the event of 1993, it was a time of true unity, how sad that with Jonathan and Buhari it is a time of Immense disunity. The post of people across the Niger, speaks of the apparent hatred their tenure or election as well as their defeat has generated.

Good talk

And some stupid people will call yoruba's sophisticated slowpoke's

You and your family can't be impressed because you are an avowed enemy of this administration, and by extension an enemy of the well-being of the Nigerian nation and a wrong genotype of the true Yoruba race...

I don't know why I so much love this Afenifere,they are the only Yoruba group with sense.

When sensible people talk they call dem ipob. This is a sensible Yoruba man who isn't swayed by political gimmicks not the riff raffs we have here on Nairaland. I can remember Yoruba elders warned against voting Buhari but as usual the riff raffs hiding behind keyboards did otherwise.

“He should restructure the country before the elections to show his genuineness and not just be playing to the gallery. This is because all that June 12 stands for is democracy and good governance. It is not about people being killed right, left and centre and pretending that you don’t know what is happening.

“It is not people being killed every day and after three months, you now wake up and say you are beefing up security. People have been complaining about the awkwardness of the lopsided appointments of heads of security agencies since you came into office, but it was not until now that the vice president (Prof. Yemi Osinbajo) said, “Oh yes, we are going to review it” – because election is approaching

God bless this man for saying the truth and exposing the true intentions of the demonic dullard called Buhari.

Only the foolish cursed ones will be shouting sai baba because of this evil deceitful intentions of Buhari.

I wasn't moved too. Buhari is an islamic dictator and jihadi...he can never change

are these not the ones who were collecting dollars from jona and hiding it from each other falae style?
we know the only thing that will impress you lot

They know it's propaganda... They don't want to fall for it because they have their own tricks up their sleeves

Lipscomb:
Nonsense old age dey worry him.buhari has done well and he deserve second time.

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