Prof. Banji Akintoye, the head of the Yoruba Nation Self-Determination Struggle, has been urged by the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council to find a more fulfilling way to spend his golden years.
This claim was made in a press release that was made accessible to journalists on Thursday by Bayo Onanuga, director of media and publicity for the Campaign Council.
Following Akintoye’s comment regarding Tinubu’s desire to run for president in 2023, Onanuga made the assertion.
As you may recall, Akintoye asserted on Thursday that Tinubu’s goals were driven by “personal interest, not the wellbeing of the Yoruba people.”
Akintoye added that he would not vote for Tinubu in 2023 and that he does not support the candidate.
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Onanuga, however, noted that Akintoye’s group was threatening to sever the South West from Nigeria and that his comment was regrettable and polarizing.
In his own words, “We assume that the separatist notion is mainly Akintoye’s idea since Yorubaland has not held a referendum on whether to remain in Nigeria or not.
“We want to caution him against pushing our nation into a crisis or creating another Rwanda.
We believe the professor’s broad charge that Aswaj Bola Ahmed Tinubu is merely pursuing his own interest in seeking the president of Nigeria is unjustified. We hasten to add that Asiwaju Tinubu is acting in this way because he is willing to provide unwavering service to Nigerians and because he firmly believes that all men and women would be able to find happiness and personal fulfillment in a strong, united, and wealthy Nigeria.
With his pledge to address some of the issues affecting our federalism and his desire to make the states more viable as federating units by giving them more power, Asiwaju’s Action Plan adequately addresses the majority of the issues on the structure of our federalism raised in Professor Akintoye’s statement.
Since the founding of our country, too much authority and wealth have been concentrated at the federal level, to say. State and local governments have suffered as a result. State administrations must be more receptive to local needs and ambitions because they are situated closer to the populace.
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“A Tinubu administration will rebalance the duties and power distribution among the various levels of government. We will work together with the National Assembly and state governments to change our system of national governance so that states have the freedom and funding they require to provide better services.
We find it inexplicable that Professor Akintoye, 87 years old, in the waning years of his life, wants to leave a legacy of hatred, bitterness, intolerance, and strife in our nation when he ought to be a voice of reason, wisdom, and stability. He previously served as a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the Unity Party of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983.
We don’t have an elder at a market, and a newborn’s head isn’t correctly put, according to the Yoruba people Akintoye falsely claimed he is fighting for. Professor Akintoye seems to have forgotten these timeless lessons of our ancestors and is instead utilizing his advanced age to sow division and hostility inside our body politic. Professor Akintoye has evolved into a symbol of chaos and confusion rather than serving as a source of knowledge for the next generation.
Professor Akintoye claimed that Asiwaju Tinubu is running for office using an old video. That is false. No film created by the old guy has ever been utilized by Asiwaju Tinubu or his campaign organization to advance their presidential campaign. It is now clear that Professor Akintoye is not one of the esteemed elders who, according to our people, are unreliable.
No Yoruba individuals were present at the meeting where Professor Akintoye and his gang of confusionists, the so-called Ilana Yoruba Group, were given the order to expel Yoruba from Nigeria.
Because he is a patriot, a bridge builder, and a person with a clear vision to make Nigeria work for all Nigerians, Asiwaju is running for president of Nigeria. Tinubu is not an irrational ethnic nationalist or a hopeless tribalist. “Tinubu is ready to provide the leadership necessary to make our country one of the greatest nations on earth because he believes in Nigeria and its obvious greatness,” the statement reads in part.
Onanuga counseled Akintoye to use the remaining years of his life to achieve inner peace rather than stoke the flames of strife.
