- The Yoruba Progressive People’s Congress says it will hold a nationwide mass rally in support of President Muhammadu Buhari
- The pan Yoruba youth group notes that it would not allow anybody soil the good relationship being enjoyed between the Yorubas and Buhari
- The group says Obasanjo’s open letter to Buhari is capable of creating friction between the president and his vice president
Yoruba Progressive People’s Congress, a pan Yoruba youth group, has said it will hold a nationwide mass rally in support of Muhammadu Buhari, to show the president that the Yoruba people are solidly behind him.
According to Vanguard, the group said it would not allow anybody soil the good relationship being enjoyed between the Yoruba and President Buhari.
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NAIJ.com gathered that Elder Amodu Pelumi, the president of the group addressing journalists in Lagos, said former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s open letter to President Muhammadu is capable of creating friction between President Buhari and his vice president, Yemi Osinbajo who currently is the highest office holder from the Yoruba people.
“Whatever his incentives are for writing that statement, we see it as a deliberate attempt to undermine Yoruba leaders that have emerged since Obasanjo left office," the group said.
The group is a statement also said Obasanjo’s letter is capable of denying Yoruba leaders positions on the national scene and bringing down national leaders of Yoruba ancestry to irrelevance so that he can install those who are loyal to him but disloyal to the general interest of the Yoruba nation.
“Obasanjo wants to attract attention to himself to inflate his political value in the southwest ahead of general elections so that he will get patronage from those who may support his line of thought even with money," the statement reads.
The president of the group further said in the statement that Obasanjo's criticism of the economic sector is a direct attack on the vice president whom he said handles that portfolio.
He said: "The quality of leadership Professor Osinbajo is providing places him on trajectory to becoming the Awolowo of our time. This reality is a medicine too bitter for him to swallow. It does not help that he hates Awolowo, the Vice President’s mentor with all his life-blood.”
Therefore the group said that the vice president, is representing the Yoruba interest superlatively.
In a previous report by NAIJ.com Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria's former president, on Tuesday, January 23, asked President Muhammadu Buhari, not to seek re-election in 2019 as he is already being pressured to do by some Nigerians.
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In a statement: The Way Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement, Obasanjo said President Buhari has performed far below expectation just as he added that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is not the solution to the country's challenges.
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Source: Naija.ng