By Prince Ade
We used to think Afenifere war against President Muhammad Buhari had ended with his 2015 victory. No. Olusegun Obasanjo, the man who as President demoted Afenifere and created Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo-led Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) and destroyed the Yoruba economic plan of AD, by forcefully and trickily taking taking entire South West but Lagos states for PDP,the Afenifere are now following, seeing their Messiah in him.
One of the things Obasanjo has told Afenifere to win their hearts, and it is disappointedly so considering Yoruba claim the highest level of educationalism even to the extent they claim Hausa/Fulani race are largely illiterate, what he has told them is that it seemed he was stooge of Hausa/Fulani because he needed to “trick them” so they would allow him to let him rule.
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It is expected that at the level of literacy they claim, Afenifere should have asked Obasanjo: “Before the same Hausa/Fulani took you from prison and made you President thus being the sole beneficiary of MKO Abiola’s sacrifices, did you trick the Hausa/Fulani?”
They should have asked him further, “When you invited some June 12 agitators including Mr. Femi Falana now SAN and told them to let June 12 rest in peace in the pit of forget, were the Hausa/Fulani the people that asked you to organise that betrayal?
“Remember while Abiola was alive, Gen. Buhari and his deputy,Tunde Idiagbon visited you in Its at a time you were not as much as you now are but had a Shagari model Mercedes-Benz, to ask you to prevail on Babangida to allow Abiola have his mandate being that Buhari still bore grudges with Babangida over his 3 years dehumanisation of him following his 1985 overthrow, was Buhari not Hausa/Fulani? You that are Yoruba fighter, what stopped you from being positive about that Buhari/Idiagbon advice? Don’t forget that Buhari had that time got to know that Abiola sponsored his overthrow by BABANGIDA coup.”
All of these questions Afenifere failed now to ask Obasanjo, who lately because of his selfish agenda has again cone to Yoruba people like he came to Osoba, Lam Adesina and other AD governors of Yoruba Land, to cajoe them and the Afenifere have accepted him like they accepted him to take over South West in 2003 when he pleaded with them that the reason Hausa/Fulani are overpowering him was because they knew his Yoruba people did not support him but they.
Obasanjo had taken the Atiku overbearing influence on his government a that time to be Haysa/Fulani Agenda. But ma we ask, if Atiku so much love Fulani, why has he conspired continuously with killers of Fulani men, women and kids and their cows just because their killers say they are settlers that must live only for him to join the hype when either the Fulani retaliated or did not even retaliate but some devilish, desperate 2019 opposition exploit the Fulani grievances to sponsor attacks of their killers and tag it Fulani herdsmen?
Afenifere never reasoned this way. They have taken Obasanjo now as their Warlord for Yoruba (not all Yoruba so believe) “emancipation 2019.”
They have therefore commenced their campaign. They claim their interest is anybody who will do restructuring. They see that in Atiku. They see it in some other but do not see it in Buhari. So they are telling us the Yoruba youths not to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 because according to them, supporting Buhari is supporting Hausa/Fulani.
It would have been understandable if they do not expose themselves. They now talk exactly like party of looters/insecurity, PDP, talk. They say for three years Buhari has done nothing. They had wanted recognition of June 12. But when Buhari recognised June 12, June 12 became evil because it happened from unexpected quarters. They said more including that Buhari is using religion to divide the Yoruba people. Exactly what PDP and Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) have done then now, they are hanging it on Buhari.
We have therefore resolved that we will rather follow Yoruba leaders like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Yemi Osinbajo, Prince Bola Ajibola, Chief Olusola Fawehinmi, Chief Kola Animasaun than to allow the Afenifere of no integrity lead us astray again as always.
Now, Obasanjo is installing Southern Christ President. Will he not need to campaign in the Fulani region? If he wins, will not rule the North along with other Nigerians?
*Prince Ade is a social media activist against corruption-borne insecurity and impunity in Nigeria.
