A national leader and former chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, has said President Goodluck Jonathan is marginalising the Yoruba in all constitutional appointments in the country.
He also pointed out that the president had not hidden his disdain for Yoruba leaders, who have any views contrary to his own.
Akande said this on Wednesday at the inaugural lecture of the Dauda Adegbenro Foundation, in honour of the late Chief Dauda Adegbenro, a former Premier of the Western Region, in Abeokuta.
Akande, who was the chairman on the occasion, in his speech titled, ‘Adegbenro fought against impunity’, noted that no administration had disrespected the Yoruba nation like Jonathan’s.
Unlike the late politician and statesman, Akande noted that the current administration at the centre promoted impunity and imposed unwanted leaders on the people.
Tracing the history of imposition of unwanted leaders on the people by the Federal Government to early 60s, which he said led to the ‘Operation We tie‘ crisis in the Western Region, Akande said the nation needed politicians in the mould of Adegbenro to fight the emerging impunity in governance.
He said, “We are back in similar era of using the regime of impunity in Jonathan’s Federal Government to impose unwanted individuals as leaders in each of the states of Yoruba land.
“It will not be an overstatement to say therefore, that we now require many more Dauda Adegbenros to lead Yoruba’s protest against Jonathan’s regime’s impunity once again in Yorubaland.”
“Apart from marginalising the Yoruba in all constitutional appointments of his government, Jonathan’s trait has always been to persecute the Yoruba leaders, whom he perceived to have contrary views to his own.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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useless old man.das all d yorubas kw hw to do best.sentiment.
ReplyDeleteCoward Anonymous! Foolish reasoning.
Deleteannonymous 9:15, God will punish you and put you to shame for insulting Yorubas.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 9.14's comments were totally irresponsible and condemnable. However, I tend to disagree with Chief Akande. This administration has yoruba like the Minister of trade and investment and that of agriculture who are star performers. In addition, it had other ministers who resigned to contest elective offices such as jelili of police affairs, Obanikoro of defence etc. It currently has the ambassador to the most important country - the USA and the presidents 2 spoke persons-Abati and Okupe are also yoruba. The Vice Chairman of the recent constitutional conference Prof Akinyemi was also yoruba. The issue is that the ACN (now part of the ACP) does not want to be seen to be working with the government and refused to send participants to the conference just to discredit it. And the truth is that while the ACP is very popular in the west it is not entirely representative of the entire yorubas.
ReplyDeletei sincerely dnt care if anyone insult me on dis platform.but i spoke d truth.yorubas jugding by dia level of education and xposure,stil cant play a sincere and clear politics.hw can an elda statesman accuse d federal gvmt marginalisation.at dis time.wen we all kw hw heated d policy is.i still repeat myslf.yorubas are too tribalistic.
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