What Adebanjo Said While Campaigning For Obi In Ibadan

What Adebanjo Said While Campaigning For Obi In Ibadan

Pa Ayo Adebanjo, leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organization Afenifere, campaigned for Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Wednesday.

The nonagenarian, who spoke briefly to the crowd at Yoruba’s Adamasingba stadium, stated that he does not oppose All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu, but that the 2023 presidency is not about tribe.

“To critics saying this one (Obi) is Igbo, that one is Yoruba, the Presidency of Nigeria is not about Igbo or Yoruba but the whole of Nigeria,” he said.

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Obi paid “sincere respects” to the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, and other respected Yoruba leaders, including Adebanjo, whom he described as standing for equity and fairness in his speech.

The LP candidate said, “What Adebanjo and Afenifere is standing for today is what will make the future of Nigeria, they are standing for equity, they are standing for fairness. Justice, equity and fairness should be the foundation of which we will build a united Nigeria.”

However, Adebanjo, 94, who succeeded Fasoranti as Afenifere leader last year, said that while he does not want to revisit issues with his predecessor, Obi remains his preferred candidate for the presidential election in February 2023.

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Previously, Adebanjo stated that in order for Nigeria to remain number one in 2023, every Nigerian must be “Obi-Datti compliant.” Obi is vying for the top job at Aso Rock alongside Datti Baba-Ahmed.

He also stated that he will not compromise his core values of justice, equity, and inclusivity.

“The South-West has produced a president and currently sits as vice-president, the South-South has spent a total of six years in the presidency but the Igbo people of the South-East have never tasted presidency in Nigeria, and now that the power is due back in the South, equity demands that it be ceded to the Igbo.

“We cannot continue to demand that the Igbo people remain in Nigeria, while we at the same time continue to brutally marginalize and exclude them from the power dynamic.

“Peter Obi is the person of Igbo extraction that Afenifere has decided to support and back, he is the man we trust to restructure the country back to federalism on the assumption of office.

“We will not compromise this principle of justice, equity, and inclusiveness because one of our own Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is a frontline candidate,” he had said.

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