PRONACO opposes Akintoye’s choice as new Yoruba leader

The Pro National Conference Organisations on Wednesday said the decision reached at a national conference it organised between 2005 and 2006 was that whoever is the leader of the pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, is the leader of the Yorubas.

The group’s spokesman, Olawale Okunniyi, said this in a statement made available to our correspondent.

He was reacting to the reported emergence of Adebanji Akintoye as the new Yoruba leader.

Akintoye was said to have been adopted as the fourth Yoruba leader coming after late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Pa Adekunle Ajasin and Senator Abraham Adesanya, at an event in Ibadan on Wednesday.

But Okunniyi said Akintoye’s emergence was contrary to that agreement which he said still subsisted.

He, however, said PRONACO would watch how event unfolds to gauge the mood of the people and Yoruba leaders on the development.


He said, “The Pro National Conference Organisations is a pan-Nigerian movement initiated by late Chief Anthony Enahoro and Prof Wole Soyinka as the sole umbrella for all ethnic nationality platforms seeking and organising for a democratic people’s Constitution for Nigeria.

“Our position is that our record still clearly shows the assertion of Yoruba delegation at the Peoples’ National Convention organised by PRONACO between 2005 and 2006 was that whoever is the leader of Afenifere is the undisputed leader of the Yorubas.

“So, until a contrary memorandum signed by not less than 12 respected elders of the Yoruba nation is presented to the national secretariat of PRONACO, the resolution of the Yorubas at the PRONACO national convention subsists with us.

“However, we shall watch keenly how event unfolds in succeeding days to gauge the mood of the people and leaders of the Yoruba nation about this uncertain development.”

stefanbanach:
Because the yorubas cannot peacefully rule themselves. Their history is filled with internal conflicts that lasted for a century. Today it's egba vs ibadan, Tomorrow it's modakeke vs ife etc. Next week, awori will try to pull out of the yoruba nation. It was why they wrote to the British and asked the British to come and rule them.

hisexcellency34:
You mean Asiwaku BolaTinubu got 3 votes? He cant win ordinary local elections and he wants to become President

Auladimeji2:
The way FBI is controlling your descendant abi

stefanbanach:
Be reasonable. I'm just a student of African history.

Auladimeji2:
But you are doing silly African history, who told you that Yoruba called the Britain to come and rule them

hisexcellency34:
You mean Asiwaku BolaTinubu got 3 votes? He cant win ordinary local elections and he wants to become President

stefanbanach:
Because the yorubas cannot peacefully rule themselves. Their history is filled with internal conflicts that lasted for a century. Today it's egba vs ibadan, Tomorrow it's modakeke vs ife etc. Next week, awori will try to pull out of the yoruba nation. It was why they wrote to the British and asked the British to come and rule them.

Auladimeji2:
The funny thing is that the op is an ibo boy
Who conducted the election, where was it conducted, when was it conducted, who counted the vote.Lol
Op,go home and sit your eldest elders in your lineage to tell you what ASIWAJU means

abc115:
Why are you people always having inferiority complex.. Tinubu this, Tinubu that, Afonja this, Afonja that?

stefanbanach:
Because the yorubas cannot peacefully rule themselves. Their history is filled with internal conflicts that lasted for a century. Today it's egba vs ibadan, Tomorrow it's modakeke vs ife etc. Next week, awori will try to pull out of the yoruba nation. It was why they wrote to the British and asked the British to come and rule them.

Auladimeji2:
The funny thing is that the op is an ibo boy
Who conducted the election, where was it conducted, when was it conducted, who counted the vote.Lol
Op,go home and sit your eldest elders in your lineage to tell you what ASIWAJU means