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”.