Fairness to Igbo is Reason for Afenifere’s Support for Obi – Ayo Adebanjo

Leader of the pan-Yoruba group, Afeniefere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said the support the group gives to the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi is informed by its sense of fairness and the need to be fair to all sections of the country.
Speaking at the Whitebaker Hotel, Ikoyi on Monday, Adebanjo, who had hidden his condemnation of the presidential ambition of former Governor of Lagos, Bola Tinubu, said supporting Obi is part of contribution to the elevation of federalism.
He spoke against the backdrop of criticism by Tinubu who claimed that Adebanjo had converted Afenifere to his personal property.
The Afenifere leader said, the decision to support Obi was in line with that of the defunct Action Group (AG), which upheld strong advocacy for federalism as the best form of government to give the federating units the requisite atmosphere to thrive and peacefully compete among themselves.
“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. Peter Obi is the person of Igbo extraction that Afenifere has decided to support and back, he is the man we trust to restructure the country back to federalism on the assumption of office.”