A former chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Moshood Salvador, has insisted that pan-Yoruba
socio-cultural group, Afenifere, cannot stop the National Leader of All
Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, from pursuing his ambition to
contest the 2023 presidential election.
Salvador, speaking to journalists
in Lagos on Tuesday, stated that those fighting Tinubu and any other Yoruba
leader from contesting were fighting a lost battle.
According to him, if it is the
wish of God for a Yoruba man to be the next president of Nigeria, Afenifere
leaders cannot stop him.
Salvador was reacting to a
statement reportedly made by a leader of the Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo,
that the 2023 presidency should be ceded to the South-East and that Tinubu
would be day-dreaming if he thought he would contest or be the president in 2023.
He said the argument of Adebanjo
that the South-East has never produced a president was false, as the first
President of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, was from the region.
The former PDP chairman described
the posture of the Yoruba leaders as “rabble-rousing, inciting, offensive,
illogical and terrible”.
Salvador reiterated that it is
the people and not the Afenifere leaders, that would decide who becomes the
President.
“These leaders forget that
Nigeria is practicing party politics and in a party politics, any candidate can
emerge.
“It is left for the party and the
presidential candidate to reach out to other tribes for support. It is the
people who now decide who becomes the president not an individual or group of
people,” he added.
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