The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has insisted
that it would continue to support what it called “the victory of Peter Obi” of
the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election and all his
endeavours in its realisation.
Afenifere reiterated that the emergence of a president from
the South East would guarantee equity, fairness and peaceful co-existence among
Nigerians.
At the April edition of its general meeting held in
Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, the group called on the Presidential Election Petition
Tribunal to ensure speedy resolution of all the petitions before it.
Obi and the Labour Party are in court to challenge the
outcome of the presidential election, which Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) won.
But, in a communique signed after the meeting by the leader,
Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and the group Secretary General Sola Ebiseni (retd),
Afenifere strongly called on the judiciary to ensure all petitions in respect
of the presidential election are “timeously and justly resolved before the end
of the tenure of the Buhari administration.”
Afenifere described this as the only way through which the
confidence Nigerians have in its intervention may be earned.
The group recalled that similar precedents in this regard
have been laid, even by less endowed countries in Africa.
In the communique, Afenifere also asked the Federal
Government not to be wasteful by committing about N100 billion to the coming
population census.
Afenifere maintained that there is no compelling reason why
the census must be held by “the expiring” President Muhammadu Buhari
administration.
The group, therefore, called for “all steps and preparations
in that regard [to] be stopped forthwith.”
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