Afenifere to Bisi Akande: We can never die
*Says group evolving across generations THE pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, recently tackled former Osun State governor, Bisi Akande who said the Yoruba group is dead. Reacting to Akande’s comments, Afenifere’s National Publicity, Prince Justice Faloye, the Yoruba group is not dead but evolving across generations. Recall that Akande, in a recent interview with Edmund Obilo, said that former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, late Bola Ige, created Afenifere, noting that the assassination of Ige in 2002 saw the death of the Yoruba group. Akande had said: “That was the beginning of the crack ( in Afenifere) but the end came with the death of Bola Ige. The death of Bola Ige was the death of Afenifere. He found it and he took it away.” When the interviewer said, “But Afenifere is not dead,” Akande said, “I don’t know, but it is not the Afenifere we formed.” However, Faloye, in a statement titled ‘Afenifere can never die’, dismissed Ak...