The National leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organization, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s unyielding opposition to the widespread yearning of Nigerians for the restructuring of the country is swelling the ranks self-determination agitators and fueling the demands for secession.
Speaking at the Service of Songs in
honour of the late Publicity Secretary of Afenifere,
Mr. Yinka Odumakin, at the Police College Ikeja on Thursday, April 22, Adebanjo
stated that if Buhari claims to be a democrat, he would not have refused to gratify
the yearning of the people to have the country restructured:
“It’s Buhari that encourages secession. Those of us calling for restructuring are the people who want Nigeria to stay. They mention Igboho, they mention Nnamdi Kanu. These people represent the youths here, because the suffering is much; the suffering is bad. And if they don’t restructure Nigeria, we’ll have more Igbohos, we’ll have more Nnamdi Kanus. I don’t support secession and don’t oppose it,” he said.
