BOSF PRESS RELEASE

RE: OSINBAJO, AN ENEMY OF YORUBA PEOPLE

The leadership of Buhari Osinbajo Solidarity Front came across a publication on Vanguard Newspaper. In the publication, there was a very wrong and incorrect incitement on the person of our principal, the vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

The publication was engineered by a factional and disgraceful so called sets of Afenifere Group led by Pa Reuben Fasoranti.

It was mainly published to discredit the hard-earned image, reputation, personality and integrity of the vice president - as who he is, been a typical, qualified and proud member of Yoruba race with high standard.

Pa Reuben Fasoranti and his co travellers gave false account and gross misrepresentation on the person of the vice president as "an enemy of Yoruba people by not championing the region's interest in the All Progressive Congress led government".

This assertion is copiously incorrect and borne out of mind full of greed, and unfriendly with good reforms.

BOSF want to firstly advise Nigerians, especially the Yoruba people to be careful and very cautious of who they listen to and identify as their voice. It is not hyperbolic that people like Pa Reuben Fasoranti and his misinformed apologists are working against the genuine and truest interest of the Yoruba race, when ordinarily their voice do not stand for the Yorubas.

It is gravely risky for the Yorubas to watch and allow those sets of people, who in all ramifications have no singular respect and position for good governance and adequate fair representation. What other interest should the vice president have expect the success of various infrastructural development in the region, the involvement of Yorubas in governments and appointments, the inclusiveness of Yorubas in N-Power beneficiaries, Home Grown School Feeding Programme, and others?

The fake group alleged on basis that they are misinformed or decided to misguide themselves or they have granted their emotion the power to cloud their judgements.

“Osinbajo is hanging on the Fulani to work against Yoruba interest when our people are getting killed in their farms by Fulani herdsmen Osinbajo did not say anything."
“When we are talking about restructuring , Osinbajo is arguing against restructuring and all the Yoruba want is restructuring , so when Osinbajo is working against restructuring, he is not for Yoruba people" “So we cannot support APC because of Osinbajo, who has turned himself to the enemy of Yoruba." - they claimed.

The above quotation is one of the wrong and misguided assertions made by the group. They have argued Fulani herdsmen and restructuring baselessly and insincerely.

It is very laughable to claim the vice president is "hanging on the Fulani to work against the Yoruba...". Such statement is capable enough of causing disunity, as a result can birth crisis.

The effect of Fulani herdsmen(which is now a narrative of the past) possess a collective threat to all Nigerians irrespective of tribe, ethnic nationalities, religion and all diversities. The vice president interest is as similar to that of a typical and patriotic Nigerian, which is finding a lasting and sustainable panacea to all challenges, the unholy activities of the Fulani Herdsmen inclusive.

The group must have expected the vice president to give hate speeches capable enough of causing further security threat and intimidation from all sides - that the vice president will not do as a national figure, specifically as a patriotic Nigerian and importantly as a cultured and well mannered Yoruba race.

What is good and sane for any serious government has been done, which is getting rid of the security challenge of the herdsmen. We believe Pa Reuben interest is personal to him and his Afenifere faction. Their claims are obviously not correct in any extent.

The PDP candidate they endorsed was a former vice president, who under his nose and that of his boss watched Nigerians to die massively under Fulani herdsmen attack without arrangement and preparation to arrest the situation. The then president was a Yoruba man, who we believe they will have endorse for third, forth and even more terms they so wish as president, we can not be amazed, that is who they have used to be.

Pa Reuben Fasoranti fake Afenifere group went ahead to claim the vice president is against restructuring. This is equally laughable and baseless. Or could it be that he suffers from amnesia?

The vice president have always explain himself as a lead frontier of restructuring and true federalism in Nigeria. BOSF will love to awake their sleeping/dead minds.

When he(vice President) was an Anthony General of Lagos state under Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Lagos state governor, their was a serious and long fight and agitation for restructuring. Lagos wanted to create more local governments and inclusively allow them to benefit directly from the state treasure. There was a serious plan to enable Lagos be independent in all spheres.

Lagos brought out reasonable plans for restructuring. The vice president team wanted and rigorously campaigned for restructuring, Atiku Abubakar as the then vice president turned deaf hears to the cries and agitations. He equally used all apparatus within his reach to fight back the stand, at the national assembly and even at the court of law. This is someone Pa Fasoranti and co Afenifere group endorsed as their candidate. Is that not shameful?

They noted, “That the Atiku endorsement is based on the following reasons; shared commitment to restructuring Nigeria to guaranty true federalism, need to promote the feelings of inclusiveness and sense of belonging amongst Nigerians and promote much desired national patriotism and unity."

We see this antagonistic and very hypocritical. How will someone who is an enemy of restructuring guarantee it suddenly. We understand it is merely to score cheap political points, but Nigerians, especially Yorubas are not freaked. The group failed to justify the vice president truest stand on restructuring but decided to paint him otherwise. We will not allow them to rewrite history for Nigerians.

We understand their notions and missions. We understand that they have used to be one of direct beneficiaries of PDP's misrule and mismanagement of public funds via shadow kinds of endorsements. They are thus pained that such free fraudulent gesture is not extended to them any longer. They live on that as means of survival. Hungry fishes will want to consume their feeders at expense of unmet overfed.

Nigerians, both home and in the diaspora must be concious and very mindful of fake agents who suddenly want to become the spokespersons of the Yoruba kingdom. Pa Reuben Fasanranti is unrecognized as a figure of reckoning in the Yoruba land. Himself and Co travellers are mere apologists who want attention and be able to feed their starving stomachs of hunger.

All Yoruba race can identify Pa Ayo Fasanmi as the authentic leader of Afenifere Egbe Ilosiwaju Ile Yoruba. He is an octogenarian who has lived meaningful percentage of his life in pure service to Yoruba race and with the sage, Late Pa Obafemi Awolowo(the image maker of Yoruba nationhood). He is actively involved and fully part of all nationalist movements led by Late Awolowo for Yoruba land. He is seen as a man of impregnable quality and untainted integrity whose voice largely count for the Yoruba race.

Pa Fasanmi stand to represent the genuine Yoruba people with the likes of Elder Yemi Slade of Ekiti, Prince Tajudeen Plus of Lagos, Prof Bayonile Ademodi of Ondo, Chief S.M Ademodi of Oyo and H.E Sooko Adewoyin of Osun. Anyone trying to contest the voice of Yoruba with these great men are wasting time and causing self serious grief. Yoruba nationhood recorgnises her voice and leaders.

Pa Reuben and co are free to endorse whosoever they wish, but, they should not make it to appear as a general endorsement or the choice of Yoruba.

The authentic Afenifere led Pa Ayo Fasanmi has made their endorsement for President Muhammadu Buhari and Prof Yemi Osinbajo. They fairly justified that the duo led federal government has satisfied the yearnings of Yoruba land and of course Nigerians, thus, they deserve reelection.

Nigerians and Yorubas will definitely stand by men of integrity who in all respects and regards are taming the exotic taste of our nationhood.

The choice of the Yorubas on February 16, 2019 presidential poll will vividly show that Yorubas are ungrateful and not against progress and development of the country. It will definitely reflect the mandate of President Muhammadu Buhari and Prof Yemi Osinbajo. As Nigerians walk to February 16, we urge all to remain resilient and keep faith with the gospel of Next Level.

Thanks and God bless.


Signed:
Mr Liberty Olawale Badmus
National Chairman, Buhari Osinbajo Solidarity Front

Distributed:
Mr AbdulAzeez, AbdulMaleek
Deputy Director(Media and Publicity), Buhari Osinbajo Solidarity Front

Wednesday, 13th of February, 2019