How Candidates Endorsed By Afenifere In 2015, 2019 Failed — Keyamo

By Oladosu Oluwagbenga 

Festus Keyamo, spokesman for the All Progressives Congress‘ (APC) presidential campaign committee, made fun of Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) nominee for president, for being chosen by the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group Afenifere to run in the 2023 elections.

Recall that Pa Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of the Pan-Yoruba group, on Monday declared the organization’s support for Obi, saying he remained the only candidate who would reorganize the country.

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He also asserted that backing Obi was in the interests of fairness and justice, particularly given the fact that the South-East region had not yet produced a Nigerian president.

Adebanjo had said at a briefing in Lagos on Monday: “The South-West, as I have pointed out, has produced a president and currently sits as VP; the South-South has spent a total of six years in the presidency, but the Igbo people of the South-East have never tasted presidency in Nigeria, and now that the power is due back in the south, equity demands that it be ceded to the Igbo.

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“We cannot continue to demand that the Igbo people remain in Nigeria, while we at the same time continue to brutally marginalise and exclude them from the power dynamics.”

Keyamo said in a tweet, yesterday, that the presidential candidates Afenifere supported in 2015 and 2019 were defeated in the general election.

“Propelled by a long-held animosity against Tinubu, in 2015, the Pa Ayo Adebanjo Afenifere endorsed Jonathan for President. In 2019, they endorsed Atiku. In both cases, they failed. Congrats, Peter Obi on this endorsement,” he tweeted.