He is former deputy leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo who served as acting National leader of Afenifere.
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The Yoruba leaders said the meeting was in swift response to the growing spate of insecurity in the region, disclosing that the meeting was also geared towards working out lasting strategies and modalities to secure the region against killer herdsmen.
Ahlaji Lai Mohammed at a media briefing recently in Abuja, said that while there were challenges, the country had recorded progress and the security situation “is by far better than what we met in 2015’’.
Have the people of the South West now become slaves in their father land? Have we finally been conquered and occupied?
Afenifere in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, on Saturday said the people of Yorubaland were not scared of war as insinuated in the statement by ACF, signed by its spokesman, Emmanuel Yawe.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kanu, a former Military Governor of Imo (1975) and Lagos State (1976), died on Wednesday in an undisclosed hospital at the age of 77.
Adebanjo, a leader of Pan Yoruba group, Afenifere, made the remark in his reaction to the death of Kanu, a former military governor of Imo in 1975 and governor of Lagos State in 1976, who died on Wednesday, aged 77.
The Federal Government through the Minister of Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, had issued the order, forcing millions of Nigerians to storm the offices of the Nigeria Identity Management Commission for NIN registration.
The most fundamental ingredient to addressing crime is intelligence. And intelligence does not jump out from the coloured screen of a computer; it comes from people – of all shades and appliances. It is the reason I believe our traditional institutions and socio-cultural organisations can be veritable accomplices in the fight against insurgency and banditry.
The reconciliation meeting was held at the Lekki, Lagos State residence of Afenifere leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo,
Afenifere’s reaction was contained in a statement on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin.
The National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos, in a reaction to the death of the former Kaduna governor.
The SMBLF took the decision in Abuja on Wednesday following developments in the polity that it described as “some urgent business of national importance”.
Odumakin said this against the backdrop of Zahra’s boast that President Buhari was not the problem of the country following the discovery of palliatives meant for Nigerians in states warehouses.
The two socio-political groups of the South West and South East stated this in a statement by their Leader and President General, Chief R. F. Fasoranti and Chief John Nnia Nwodo, on Saturday.
In a statement by its Leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, the foremost Yoruba group said it showed the fact that Nigerians were tired of the excesses of the Nigerian State as symbolised by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.
The National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos.
Fayemi stated this at the public presentation of Afenifere Leader Pa Reuben Fasoranti’s autobiography in Akure, Ondo State at the weekend.
The National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos.
Soyinka said this in a statement on Tuesday, a day after the Presidency described Obasanjo as the “Divider-in-Chief” of Nigeria for criticising President Muhammadu Buhari’s style of administration