Temidayo Akinsuyi, Lagos

Aremo Olusegun Osoba, a former governor of Ogun state has faulted Chief Ayo Adebanjo’s position that the 2023 presidency should be zoned to Igbos, saying the Afenifere leader has no power to take the unilateral decision without the input of other Yoruba leaders.

Speaking in an interview with DAILY INDEPENDENT, Osoba, who described Adebanjo as a dictator, also said he disagreed with Adebanjo’s position that the South-West should boycott the 2023 presidential election due to the failure of All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government to restructure the country.

According to him, while the Igbos have a right to contest for the position of the highest office in the land in 2023, Yorubas and other Nigerians also have a right to do so.

Going down memory lane, Osoba challenged Adebanjo to tell the world where he got his boycott philosophy from, saying the late Obafemi Awolowo, whom Adebanjo claimed to be emulating never supported the boycott of elections during his lifetime.

“There are two issues that I disagree with Adebanjo on. For example in his own dictatorial way, he says he has now zoned the 2023 presidency to the Igbos. I want to query him, who is he zone the Yoruba race out of the presidential race in 2023? Who is he?".

“Where did we meet as Yoruba to say that we are ceding the presidency to the Igbos? Awolowo will not behave like that. There will be a meeting where there will be consensus.

“Of course, the Igbos have a right to contest in 2023 just as I, as a Yoruba man, also has a right to contest. But he (Adebanjo) has unilaterally zoned it to the Igbos. That is part of his dictatorial attitude. He is a dictator.

“Two, he says we must boycott 2023 elections. Where did we sit down to decide that Yorubas will boycott the 2023 elections? He doesn’t read history, even the history that he was part of. In 1964, he was in exile in Ghana. The issue of a boycott arose. The National Congress of Nigeria Citizens (NCNC) and Action Congress (AG) went into an alliance and formed the United Progressive Grand Alliance (UPGA).

“Overnight, they decided to boycott the election. Awolowo, who was then in Calabar prison, sent a message that we should never boycott the election. He said the boycott is not recognised by law anywhere and that we will lose out.

“Of course, we boycotted and we lost out in the government that was formed in 1964. Our other wing of UPGA in the East refused to boycott and so we produced nobody in the National Assembly then. Awolowo has never been a supporter of boycott.

“Adebanjo should tell me an example of when Awolowo ever boycotted and where he (Adebanjo) got that philosophy from. I query him, where did we meet as Yoruba to say that we are going to boycott 2023 election?

“Even if we boycott, other Yoruba will go into the race. The PDP Yoruba will contest, and so, who is the loser?

If we are going to boycott, let it be that all of us sat down together, debated it and arrive at a conclusion. There are the two major issues that Adebanjo is preaching, which are unrealistic and which Awolowo would never have supported. Awolowo will never support boycott,” he said.

https://www.independent.ng/2023-presidency-ayo-adebanjo-a-dictator-has-no-right-to-decide-for-yorubas-osoba/

The Yorubas are clamouring for the presidency to be zoned to the South. No wahala

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, a Yoruba, anticipated for the presidency to be zoned to the South East. Then, there's wahala.

Is South East not in the same South they're clamouring?


In the equity of Zoning, it should go to SE or SS. Anything aside this, then, no one should talk about zoning. The North can keep their thing.

Who really is the leader of the Yorubas

Kriss216:
The Yorubas are clamouring for the presidency to be zoned to the South. No wahala

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, a Yoruba, anticipated for the presidency to be zoned to the South East. Then, there's wahala.

Is South East not in the same South they're clamouring?


In the equity of Zoning, it should go to SE or SS. Anything aside this, then, no one should talk about zoning. The North can keep their thing.

Trying to divide the south?

See them above^^^. They no worry about their erosion ridden south east. Na yoruba mata dem carry for head like gala.
awon olori pelebe.
meanwhile fayemi2023= restructuring and resource control. OR GIVE US ODUDUWA.

Ayo Adebanjo is old and senile. He is a “leader” without followers. His words carry no weight anywhere in the south west. Aremo Osoba should have ignored him.

The south west will not just participate actively in the 2023 election, the region will put up candidates for the presidency. Any interested person from the south should also join the race. Zoning is between the south and north and we will ensure that power returns to the south in 2023.

Politics in Nigeria is totally different from politics in other civilised countries.

Too many saboteurs among Yorubas, reason some outsiders feel Yorubas can't do sh.it..

2023 is for the South and anyone from SW, SS or SE is free to contest but SW will surely emerge victorious.

Politics in Nigeria is totally different from politics in other civilised countries

seunmsg:
Ayo Adebanjo is old and senile. He is a “leader” without followers. His words carry no weight anywhere in the south west. Aremo Osoba should have ignored him.

and who is osoba?
is just as senile and old as adebanjo his self
his words carries no weight even in abeokuta,not to talk of ogun state. Abeg go sitdown.

flokii:
Too many saboteurs among Yorubas, reason some outsiders feel Yorubas can't do sh.it..

2023 is for the South and anyone from SW, SS or SE is free to contest but SW will surely emerge victorious.

Divide and rule tactics is not working anymore.

yoruba1914:
and who is osoba?
is just as senile and old as adebanjo his self
his words carries no weight even in abeokuta,not to talk of ogun state. Abeg go sitdown.

Osoba is the leader of APC in Ogun state. His party is still the party in government both at the federal and state level. Can we say the same of Adebanjo?

SLAP44:


Divide and rule tactics is not working anymore.

No one is dividing you my friend.. you are the ones dividing yourselfes and pulling yourselves down.
Meet PDP for presidency and face APC SW candidate in elections. No dictator will ask anyone to give SE anything, it's undemocratic and unacceptable.

North don’t spit out the honey!

flokii:


No one is dividing you my friend.. you are the ones dividing yourselfes and pulling yourselves down.
Meet PDP for presidency and face APC SW candidate in elections. No dictator will ask anyone to give SE anything, it's undemocratic and unacceptable.

Off point with the topic.

That's how you hope to derail and divert. Divide and rule.

Ok

Dapo Abiodun has delegated Osoba to the background. Go and ask anyone in Ogun APC. He takes order from the Vice-President

seunmsg:


Osoba is the leader of APC in Ogun state. His party is still the party in government both at the federal and state level. Can we say the same of Adebanjo?

SLAP44:


Off point with the topic.

That's how you hope to derail and divert. Divide and rule.

I am for SW presidency in 2023 and I know so many of my kiths and kins who are. If you think Yorubas will come out to campaign for SE presidency then you my friend are sleeping on a moving bicycle.

flokii:


I am for SW presidency in 2023 and I know so many of my kiths and kins who are. If you think Yorubas will come out to campaign for SE presidency then you my friend are sleeping on a moving bicycle.

Off point, off topic.

seunmsg:


Osoba is the leader of APC in Ogun state. His party is still the party in government both at the federal and state level. Can we say the same of Adebanjo?

osoba is not the leader of apc in ogun state.
even amosun get level pass am. Go ask wetin amosun use him eye see. And besides whats the use of being in the winning party without influence? if you cant make appointments?
Even mere commissioner?
Osoba is the least to talk back at adebanjo.

Nigeria is not ready for another Yoruba president period.

Both Have Deep-rooted Personal Grudges And Animosities Since Afenifere/ AD Days.

Interesting

Very true

yoruba1914:
osoba is not the leader of apc in ogun state.
even amosun get level pass am. Go ask wetin amosun use him eye see. And besides whats the use of being in the winning party without influence? if you cant make appointments?
Even mere commissioner?
Osoba is the least to talk back at adebanjo.

na dem dem

Sometimes I always have some form of hatred in me for some of these old Yorubas that call themselves leaders especially those who hid under Awo disciple to churn out statements.

What right does Pa Adebanjo have to zone the presidency to the Ibos? He should understand more since he lived the times with Awolowo, how exactly have the Ibos ever willfully supported us in history such that we are under obligation to reciprocate the effort?

Why do you have to be lenient with those who wouldn’t blink an eye if it were us?

God willing, 2023 the Yorubas will contest. It is now left to the electorate to decide whether they vote our candidate or not.

These Afenifere people themselves need to be looked at, since 2003 what have been their achievement and how have they benefitted the Yorubas?

They should be the most solid corp of pro-Yorubas but they are the weakest line and a crack to anything pro-Yorubaness.

I want it zoned to the south and if its done am confident a strong southerner will win the ticket but then SS,SW etc are Free to contest the ticket
NB :No one gives anything free without working for it

Very logical

Kriss216:
The Yorubas are clamouring for the presidency to be zoned to the South. No wahala

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, a Yoruba, anticipated for the presidency to be zoned to the South East. Then, there's wahala.

Is South East not in the same South they're clamouring?


In the equity of Zoning, it should go to SE or SS. Anything aside this, then, no one should talk about zoning. The North can keep their thing.