Weeks after the Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) led by Pa Ayo Adebanjo endorsed the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, some Afenifere leaders led by Pa Ayo Fasanmi have endorsed the President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo ticket of the APC.
The leaders, who met in Ibadan on Thursday, distanced themselves from the ARG’s decision to endorse Atiku, describing the Adebanjo-led group as “usurpers” who would soon be flushed out.
However, the leaders disclosed that after a three-hour meeting, they decided to endorse the Buhari-Osinbajo ticket, noting that a formal declaration would take place on January 29, 2019.
The leaders who were at the House of Chiefs, Parliament Building, Secretariat Agodi, in Ibadan for the meeting included Fasanmi; former governor of old Oyo state, Dr. Omololu Olunloyo; former deputy governor of Lagos and Oyo states, Prince Biodun Ogunleye and Iyiola Oladokun, respectively; Dr. Abayomi Finnih; son of the late Pa Adekunle Ajasin, a former governor of old Ondo State, Tokunbo; and former commissioner for Lands in Osun State and son of Chief Bola Ige, former Minister of Justice, Muyiwa.
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Others included Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye; Mr. Ayo Afolabi’ Prof Adebayo Ademudi; Oladosu Oladipo; Tajudeen Olusi, and chairman of Ekiti State chapter of Afenifere, Chief Akin Fasae.
Fasae, who spoke on behalf of the leaders, said, “We have decided to host Yorubaland in Ibadan, on January 29, next year. It is to proclaim the support of Yorubaland for president Buhari in 2019, and also, to tell the whole world that Afenifere, which Chief Obafemi Awolowo created before he left, is still intact as a progressive movement. And any Afenifere person, who is not in the progressive, is not part of us.
“We are now telling the Yoruba people and the whole world that Afenifere, as enunciated and enacted by Chief Awolowo is still intact and we are going to support President Buhari and Prof Osinbajo; come the presidential election in February 2019.”
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