Afenifere Reveals Why Yorubas Regret Voting For President Buhari... Read Details

 

A leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, senator Femi Okunrounmu, has stated that Yoruba people already regret voting for President Muhammadu Buhari.

 

Okunrounmu, who was the chairman of the defunct Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference, had supported the immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan, for a second term and asked the Yoruba to vote for him.

 

However, Buhari received over two million votes from the south-west in the last election and defeated Jonathan in the presidential electiom.

 

Speaking with The Punch correspondent on Saturday, August 29, Okunrounmu stated that his predictions about the Buhari-led administration were already coming true.

 

According to the group’s leader, the president’s recent appointments showed that the North would dominate Nigeria in all spheres.

 

He said: “As a Yoruba man, I am very uncomfortable with this (appointments). Buhari had a reputation for ethnic bias and when we said it during the election, they said we were lying."

“The change the APC was talking about meant two different things. The APC in the North saw change as an opportunity to return power to the region while those in the South-West were looking for genuine social change. At the end, the North just used the South-West to get into Aso Rock and now we are regretting it,” he said.

 

Although Femi Adesina, the president’s spokesperson, assured Nigerians that Buhari would balance the lopsided appointments very soon, Okunrounmu noted that all the important appointments had already been made.

 

In his opinion, no other appointment could be more powerful than the secretary to the government of the federation.