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Yoruba elders say they regret voting for Muhammadu Buhari during Nigeria's last president election.
According to NIGERIAN PILOT, the leaders are particularly angry with Buhari over the recently concluded National Assembly elections, which they feel was a big blow to the South west.
One of the Elders who spoke to newsmen anonymously said, ''For the fact that the South-West played a key role in the emergence of Buhari as the President, it is expected that they would occupy a more strategic position than the post of vice president''.
They argued that the position of Professor Yemi Osinbanjo, the current vice president, who is a South west indigene is not a powerful position.
National Coordinator of Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform, CODER, Chief Ayo Opadokun, a South-West leader, noted that the Yoruba race made a great mistake by not re-electing the former President, considering what he had in stock for the zone.
He said the implementation of the National Conference report would elevate the standard of the zone, which is the reason people of the South-West should have queued behind Jonathan.
“Failure to do this needful may spell doom for the zone as their trust in their forged alliance with North would lead to regret.
According to image maker of Pro- National Conference, Wale Okunniyi, “what happened at the National Assembly was a conspiracy against Yoruba nation by some powerful forces in the APC. Although, we hold the Vice President position, we lost the speakership. This calls for total re-strategising by Yoruba leadership so that we can have our way in this current power structure.”
Prominent South- West leader and lawyer, Asiwaju Bisi Adegbuyi, said Yoruba race should know what they want, adding that Yoruba made progress during Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s days.
Also, a PDP chieftain from the zone, Barrister Olayinka Sanni, put the blame on the selfish interest of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. He said that Tinubu’s selfish interest was pushing the South-West backward.
“He derives pleasure from cheating people in public. If they had not conducted the mock election, Femi Gbajabiamila would have won since it would have happened at the same time in both chambers,’’ he noted, adding that going by the trend of things, South-West might be forced to pressurise President Buhari to implement the part of the recommendation of the Confab which would be favorable to them.
According to NIGERIAN PILOT, the leaders are particularly angry with Buhari over the recently concluded National Assembly elections, which they feel was a big blow to the South west.
One of the Elders who spoke to newsmen anonymously said, ''For the fact that the South-West played a key role in the emergence of Buhari as the President, it is expected that they would occupy a more strategic position than the post of vice president''.
They argued that the position of Professor Yemi Osinbanjo, the current vice president, who is a South west indigene is not a powerful position.
National Coordinator of Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform, CODER, Chief Ayo Opadokun, a South-West leader, noted that the Yoruba race made a great mistake by not re-electing the former President, considering what he had in stock for the zone.
He said the implementation of the National Conference report would elevate the standard of the zone, which is the reason people of the South-West should have queued behind Jonathan.
“Failure to do this needful may spell doom for the zone as their trust in their forged alliance with North would lead to regret.
According to image maker of Pro- National Conference, Wale Okunniyi, “what happened at the National Assembly was a conspiracy against Yoruba nation by some powerful forces in the APC. Although, we hold the Vice President position, we lost the speakership. This calls for total re-strategising by Yoruba leadership so that we can have our way in this current power structure.”
Prominent South- West leader and lawyer, Asiwaju Bisi Adegbuyi, said Yoruba race should know what they want, adding that Yoruba made progress during Chief Obafemi Awolowo’s days.
Also, a PDP chieftain from the zone, Barrister Olayinka Sanni, put the blame on the selfish interest of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. He said that Tinubu’s selfish interest was pushing the South-West backward.
“He derives pleasure from cheating people in public. If they had not conducted the mock election, Femi Gbajabiamila would have won since it would have happened at the same time in both chambers,’’ he noted, adding that going by the trend of things, South-West might be forced to pressurise President Buhari to implement the part of the recommendation of the Confab which would be favorable to them.
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