Elder
statesman and Afenifere chieftain, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said the Yoruba
nation will not be deceived again by the national chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to vote for President
Muhammadu Buhari next year.
Speaking
with Daily Independent, Adebanjo, revealed he has thrown his weight behind
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).
According to
him, Tinubu succeeded in selling Buhari to the South-West in 2015, due to his
claim that the president has integrity and the willpower needed to turn the fortunes
of the country around.
According to
Adebanjo, Tinubu himself has realised he made a great mistake entering into
alliance with Buhari, but he is ashamed of saying it out.
“Do you
think we are stupid people in the South-West? Yoruba people are more
intelligent than all that. Tinubu succeeded in 2015 because of the fake
integrity attached to Buhari. He succeeded in bringing Buhari because of the
fake integrity attached to him but the last three years has exposed him to be
fake.
“People have
seen him to be fake. He is not somebody anyone can rely upon and I have no
doubt in my mind that Tinubu would have seen the stupidity of aligning with him.
By now, Tinubu must have realised the foolish mistake he made by aligning with
him but he will not come out to admit it.
“Yoruba
people are too intelligent to be used again. Once bitten, twice shy. Tinubu has
sold the Yoruba by aligning with Buhari, even at this stage. He agreed with
Buhari to do restructuring, to do federalism. When the man now got there and he
is not doing it, has Tinubu got the courage to pull out?
“And I have
said it to him and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. They are unfair to the Yoruba
because everybody is thinking that because they represent the Yoruba, all the
things against the race, they would address them. But they are quiet on them
all.
“There are
killings right and left, but they are quiet. They are quiet on the issue of
revenue allocation. Even the case of local government under this restructuring,
Tinubu took Obasanjo to court, it is part of restructuring programme and the
man who handled the case in court was Osinbajo.
“They won
the case at the Supreme Court. Under what principle did they take the then
President Obasanjo to court? They sold out and the same Osinbajo, who took
Obasanjo to court for not following the federal system, is now saying he does
not understand what the federal system means”.
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