Afenifere, the pan Yoruba Socio-political group Tuesday threw its weight behind the five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) opposed to the presidential ambition of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

The group blamed the crisis rocking the PDP on the violation of the party’s constitution and the recommendations of the 2014 National Conference on rotation of power between Northern and Southern regions of the country.

The Secretary General of the mainstream Yoruba organisation, Chief Sola Ebiseeni in a statement said the position of five PDP governors opposed to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar presidency led by Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike was supported by Afenifere which was of the believe that the power should come to the south after a Northerner, President Muhammadu Buhari has completed an eight-year tenure.

Ebiseeni, who was justifying the presence of Afenifere at the Southwest rally of the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, said the constitution of the PDP was violated with the choice of Abubakar as the presidential candidate of the PDP.

According to him, it was difficult for members of the Afenifere in good conscience and the peace of our nation to support the ill-advised choice of the PDP Presidential candidate on account of his region of origin.

“It was said that the South-East must come to negotiate with the North because politics is a game of numbers. My case is and I told people yesterday,the case for the East is not to beg for a favour; it is their right. Yet, each time I hear that they should go around because the North has the population, what fraudulent population? You can’t sell that to me.

“They tell us to work together but unfortunately because they now have produced a president at the helm of affairs, they say ‘no one can become the president except you come to the North.
unfortunately, some southerners have been brainwashed that they can’t do anything except they bow to the North. I don’t believe it.

“What right has the North to dictate who will become our president? We were brought together not by peace, not by agreement, they forced us together and we agreed, so to continue to live together in peace must be by agreeable terms.

The East has the right not because he is Igbo but because it is in Nigeria. The principle of Afenifere is on ideological basis and principle of rightness, inclusiveness and not any sentiment.”

Acidosis:
Atiku's greed is his greatest undoing. His failure come 2023 is inevitable.


It's time for the G5 to make their intentions known. Obasanjo has spoken, Afenife8re has spoken, and more will continue to speak.

dre11:
Atiku’s Presidency Violates Power Sharing Arrangement -Afenifere Backs G5 Govs On Ayu



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