Since after the visit of the All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu to Pa Reuben Fasoranti in his residence in Akure, the Ondo State capital where he was endorsed by the later who is a former leader of Afenifere, the Pan-Yoruba group has been thrown into crisis.
The “acting” leader of Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo who had earlier endorsed the presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi had during a popular programme on Channels Television “Politics Today” faulted the former Lagos State governor’s visit, saying it was a well-calculated attempt to the divide the group.
However the spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress campaign council, Festus Keyamo,while reacting to the crisis in the group said it will be unfair for anybody to link the visit of the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, to Pa Reuben Fasoranti as the reason for the crisis currently rocking the leadership of Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere.
He said, “Nothing is going on other than an attempt to split Afenifere to which I will not be a party. It is a sort of conspiracy among those who want to see Afenifere divided.
“They have been on this plan for over a month and my members came to me to alert me about it and I said, ‘Don’t talk about it. It would be a diversion’. All we want now is an election on issues.”
This was as there have been wide speculations on the media that his principals’ visit orchestrated the crisis, but reacting to it, Keyamo, stated exclusively to newsmen there was no iota of truth in the report.
“The real reason for Afenifere’s wrangling is Pa Adebanjo who rushed to endorse a candidate without proper consultation in the organisation to which he belongs.
“The fact that you are made deputy leader does not make you a dictator. I had listened to him in one of his interviews saying ‘That’s not how we do it’. How do they do it? That one person sits and takes a profound decision like that without talking to anyone or your fellow elders within the same organisation?
“Pa Adebanjo should tell the entire Nigeria who and who he spoke with within Afenifere that gave him the go-ahead to endorse Obi. It is down to just bias and sheer hatred for Asiwaju. That’s all. That was exactly what pushed him to make mistake.”
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