Restructure Afenifere — youths



...made the call during protest in Ondo

•They're unknown; must have been paid —Pa Adebanjo 

Yoruba youths, under the aegis of Afenifere Youth Organisation of Nigeria, YAYON, have called for the restructuring of the pan-Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere.

They also passed a vote of 'no confidence' on the national leader of Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo.

Led by a youth leader, Eric Oluwole, and the leader of the women wing of YAYON, Bukola Olusooto, the youths, during a protest in Akure, said that the Yoruba Group "needed to be sanitised."

Addressing newsmen, during their protest to the country home of the National Leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, in Akure, Oluwole said that Adebanjo should immediately step down in his capacity as the acting leader of the Afenifere.

The protesters displayed placards with various inscription such as " Fasoranti please revoke the mandate you gave to Adebanjo Now, Pa Adebanjo must step down, Afenifere must restructure now, Adebanjo must go, Our vote of no confidence stands, Pa Fasoranti please rescue Afenifere;" "Ayo Adebanjo Must Go;" "Pa Ayo Adebanjo: Time to Step Aside from Afenifere, amongst others.

Oluwole, said that Fasoranti remained the authentic National Leader of the mainstream Yoruba group.

He lamented that once Adebanjo, assumed the leadership of the group had by his political interest, polarized the group. 

"We cannot allow one leader to mortgage our future. We cannot continue like this. The only person we recognise in this Yoruba nation is our Pa Reuben Fasoranti as the National Leader of Afenifere, and he still remain as the National Leader of Afenifere.

"We hereby call on Pa Ayo Adebanjo, to step down immediately, and he should stop parading himself as the National Leader of Afenifere.

"What we need is sanity in Afenifere and we believe in Pa Reuben Fasoranti's leadership.

"We are not threatening him. What we are saying is that he should step down in the interest of Afenifere. We want peace and we want Baba Reuben Fasoranti to take over.

The leader of the women wing of YAYON, Bukola Olusooto, said they no longer recognise Adebanjo as Acting Leader of Afenifere.

Responding to the protesting youths, Pa Fasoranti, who spoke through his Chief Security Officer, Sunday Ogunkalu, assured them that the group was not in crisis and that lasting solutions would be found to move the group forward.

Reacting, to the protest against his leadership, Pa Ayo Adebanjo said that "I don't know them and I have repeatedly said I don't know their father. I don't know their parents. They are only encouraging them to be talking. 

Adebanjo said: "I have told you they don't exist. I think some people just gathered them and gave them money to make them start talking as if something is happening in Afenifere." 

Culled from Vanguard

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