Buhari pushing Nigeria over the precipice, Afenifere warns

Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere, has stated that until Nigeria is reorganized, the country will collapse, stressing that the country is on the edge of precipice at the moment.

His comments came after Northern governors and traditional rulers openly stated that they do not fully accept the Southern governors’ call for the presidency to be rotated.

When asked the implication of what the Northern elders said, Adebanjo said;

“It means that they want us to live in Nigeria on their own terms, where they will be the rider and we will be the horse, and they want others to be the underdog.” He said.

“I have said it before and I repeat, most of the Fulani people are not honest, particularly those of Buhari’s school of thought. We are going to resist it and they will see.”

 “It is the breakup of the country, that’s all. I have said it severally, either you restructure the country to federalism, where everybody is an equal partner, or it will be ‘to thy tents O Israel’; whereby the country fragments and everyone goes his way to mind his or her business. Who will accept to be an underdog?

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“When you came in as military ruler, you made your laws and later, your people made a constitution and changed all the things that our founding fathers agreed to before independence. I have said, “If that is difficult for you, let’s sit and agree on how to move forward because we can’t continue on the condition you imposed on us.”

“The North knows what they are doing. All the times we have been saying, we don’t want this constitution because it is oppressive and one sided. Is it not a strong statement for the president to come and disabuse our minds? But he is not bothered. I’m a full advocate of restructuring, and I don’t want secession.”

“I want cooperation and the president hasn’t invited those of us talking about restructuring to hear what we are talking about if he claims he doesn’t understand what it means, but he wants to continuously force the constitution on us because all the paraphernalia of security is in his hands under the constitution.”

“The Fulani control the army, Navy, Air Force, police, DSS, Customs, Immigration because the constitution is in his hands. It will not work. If he likes, let him kill everybody in the South; it can’t succeed.”

“The president wants to disunite and dislocate Nigeria by still allowing this constitution that is contrary to the agreement reached by the founding fathers for everybody to live together. This time that the Northern governors were meeting, all their traditional rulers were there.”