The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, has said the Yoruba race will only support presidential candidates that are in support of the restructuring of the country.
Aare Adams said this when a former Governor of Ogun State and Director General of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, paid him a courtesy call on Sunday.
He described Daniel as one of the prominent sons of Yoruba race that has the interest of Yorubaland at heart.
He said: “As the 15th Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, I must not be partisan.
“Every son and daughter of Yorubaland has every right to visit me.
“Only a presidential candidate that has passion and believes in the restructuring of Nigeria will be supported.
“The only solution to the present problems of Nigeria is restructuring.
“Nigeria should be restructured along the six geopolitical zones based on federating units.
“This is how it was written in the 1963 Constitution.
“This will give room for the economic and developmental rivalries among the six geopolitical zones based on federating units.
“Any political party that believes in this will have our support.”
In his remarks, Daniel said his visit was to pay a courtesy visit to Iba Adams as the 15th Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland.
He also noted that as the Director-General of the APCO, he was there to seek support for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate for the 2019 election.
Some of the dignitaries that came with Daniel on the visit were Araba Tola Adeniyi, Akogun Tunde Odanye, Chief Kole Omololu, Hon. Hakeem Gbajabiamila, Deji Wellington and Prince Deji Kalejaye.