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The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has
said President Jonathan’s attempt to woo
Yoruba nation for the support of his re-
election is already too late in the day.
The group, in a statement by its Publicity
Secretary, Kunle Famoriyo, described the
“Yoruba Progress Summit” which held
last Friday as an afterthought and a futile
effort to sneak the President into Yoruba
land through the backdoor.
“For the past five years under his
administration, Yoruba people have been
deliberately marginalized and skewed out
of national reckoning, especially in terms
of key appointments and opportunity to
partake in key sectors of the economy,”
the statement said.
“We are surprised that President
Jonathan believes the position of the
Speaker, over which he has no control, is
enough to atone for the deliberate
marginalization in key appointments, over
which he has control.”
“In any case, we do not need a ‘Progress
Summit’ in Yoruba land. We already have
a progressive culture based on democratic
and egalitarian values. What Yoruba
nation needs is how to be delivered from
the retrogressive forces imposed on us by
the Nigerian state. The Yoruba nation was
well ahead in terms of development until
the forced union called Nigeria began to
steal our institutions from us. Obafemi
Awolowo University (OAU), being one of
the stolen institutions, is good only to
address the need to restructure Nigeria,
not for an effort to sustain the status quo”
The group said nothing will please Yoruba
nation other than a return to regional
government through maximum devolution
of powers and a return to parliamentary
democracy because “we reckon this is the
best form of public governance that gives
us the opportunity to develop at our own
pace and contribute our quota to Nigeria’s
development.”
According to the group, everything that
happened at summit is a fool’s paradise as
already proven by the students of OAU.
“Those Yoruba persons parading
themselves as leaders of Yoruba people
know that leadership in Yoruba land
resides in treasured virtues of Omoluabi
and Afenifere philosophy, not necessarily
in persons. Yoruba people know their
leaders.”
“We dare say that more than any so called
leader at that event, those students, who
braved all the odds to tell Mr. President
the truth, are the true leaders,
irrespective of their ethnic origin.”
“ARG therefore salutes the courage of
those students who spoke truth in face of
oppression and we enjoin every Nigerian
to replicate their courageous act.”

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The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has
said President Jonathan’s attempt to woo
Yoruba nation for the support of his re-
election is already too late in the day.
The group, in a statement by its Publicity
Secretary, Kunle Famoriyo, described the
“Yoruba Progress Summit” which held
last Friday as an afterthought and a futile
effort to sneak the President into Yoruba
land through the backdoor.
“For the past five years under his
administration, Yoruba people have been
deliberately marginalized and skewed out
of national reckoning, especially in terms
of key appointments and opportunity to
partake in key sectors of the economy,”
the statement said.
“We are surprised that President
Jonathan believes the position of the
Speaker, over which he has no control, is
enough to atone for the deliberate
marginalization in key appointments, over
which he has control.”
“In any case, we do not need a ‘Progress
Summit’ in Yoruba land. We already have
a progressive culture based on democratic
and egalitarian values. What Yoruba
nation needs is how to be delivered from
the retrogressive forces imposed on us by
the Nigerian state. The Yoruba nation was
well ahead in terms of development until
the forced union called Nigeria began to
steal our institutions from us. Obafemi
Awolowo University (OAU), being one of
the stolen institutions, is good only to
address the need to restructure Nigeria,
not for an effort to sustain the status quo”
The group said nothing will please Yoruba
nation other than a return to regional
government through maximum devolution
of powers and a return to parliamentary
democracy because “we reckon this is the
best form of public governance that gives
us the opportunity to develop at our own
pace and contribute our quota to Nigeria’s
development.”
According to the group, everything that
happened at summit is a fool’s paradise as
already proven by the students of OAU.
“Those Yoruba persons parading
themselves as leaders of Yoruba people
know that leadership in Yoruba land
resides in treasured virtues of Omoluabi
and Afenifere philosophy, not necessarily
in persons. Yoruba people know their
leaders.”
“We dare say that more than any so called
leader at that event, those students, who
braved all the odds to tell Mr. President
the truth, are the true leaders,
irrespective of their ethnic origin.”
“ARG therefore salutes the courage of
those students who spoke truth in face of
oppression and we enjoin every Nigerian
to replicate their courageous act.”

Now we're talking!

Desola:

Now we're talking!

I said it b4...yoruba arent glutton for Jonathan stomach-infrastructure. 6yrs down Jonathan was busy concentrating placing igbo in better positions at d expense of yorubaland. He fails to realized dat, in Nigeria no1 can marginalize yoruba race...we're too sophisticated for any1 to think it possible. He shot himself in d legs.

Pondering over speakership slot is a crying baby. Important sectors non is yorubas. Jonathan shld forget our support. If nt for a yoruba man, Jonathan wld b a dreamer for d presidency coz d north cldnt hv allowed him or any1 frm dat region. The reason was simply, any1 frm dat place wld scheme for almost thru-out his tenure trying to avenge d past inequalities instead of focusing on integrating d country n place it in d competitive world for every race in Nigeria.

jayonpoint:

I said it b4...yoruba arent glutton for Jonathan stomach-infrastructure. 6yrs down Jonathan was busy concentrating placing igbo in better positions at d expense of yorubaland. He fails to realized dat, in Nigeria no1 can marginalize yoruba race...we're too sophisticated for any1 to think it possible. He shot himself in d legs.

Pondering over speakership slot is a crying baby. Important sectors non is yorubas. Jonathan shld forget our support. If nt for a yoruba man, Jonathan wld b a dreamer for d presidency coz d north cldnt hv allowed him or any1 frm dat region. The reason was simply, any1 frm dat place wld scheme for almost thru-out his tenure trying to avenge d past inequalities instead of focusing on integrating d country n place it in d competitive world for every race in Nigeria.

this country is dead.......you are here talking about yoruba, igbo and north,,,,,,,,,,who cares which tribe the president comes from?......who cares where the speaker or senate president comes from?.......this people are after their own intrest,,,,,,they have embezzled enough money to buy citizenship in any western country of their choice,,,,,,,,,we the poor would be left to die in the country......wake up