The leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo has insisted that equity, justice, and fairness demand that someone from the south East is elected president to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.
Bulletin Nigeria reports that Adebanjo stated this at a solidarity rally in honour of Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and his running mate Yusuff Datti Baba-Ahmed held in Ibadan.
From far and near, youths from across the Southwest region converged on the Lekan Salami Stadium in Ibadan in honour of the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party Peter Obi amidst fanfare.
The event had in attendance, party stalwarts as well as candidates of the Labour party who had come to solicit support for Peter Obi and his running mate Yusuff Datti Baba-Ahmed.
Foremost Pan Yoruba leader Chief Ayo Adebanjo who described the Labour party Presidential candidate as a detribalized Nigerian emphasized that the time was ripe for the Southeast to produce the next president.
Recall that Adebanjo had in September, at a press conference in Lagos, declared Afenifere’s endorsement of Obi on the grounds that the South-East had not produced a president since the return to democracy.
Adebanjo’s words: “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”.
Meanwhile, Peter Obi promised to fight corruption and give the teeming masses hope. He assured the audience that if given the opportunity Nigeria would be great again.