The spokesman for the All Progressives Congress Campaign
Council, Festus Keyamo, says it will be unfair for anybody to link the visit of
the party’s presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to Pa Reuben
Fasoranti, to the crisis rocking the leadership of the Pan-Yoruba group,
Afenifere.
Tinubu had visited Fasoranti at his residence in Akure, the
Ondo State capital, two weeks ago, where he received the endorsement of the
elder statesman.
The action did not go down well with Afenifere’s ‘acting’
leader, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, who faulted the former Lagos State governor’s visit,
saying it was a well-calculated attempt to divide the group.
A furious Adebanjo, who earlier endorsed the Labour Party’s presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi, aired his grievance on Politics Today, a popular programme on Channels Television, barely 24 hours after Tinubu’s visit.
He said, “Nothing else is going on other than an attempt to
split Afenifere, to which I will not be a party. It is a sort of conspiracy
among those who want to see Afenifere divided.”
Reacting to the allegation that his principal’s visit was
the reason for the group’s crisis, Keyamo said there was no iota of truth in
the report.
Speaking in an exclusive report with our correspondent, the
Minister of State for Labour said, “The real reason for Afenifere’s wrangling
is Pa Adebanjo, who rushed to endorse a candidate without proper consultation
in the organisation to which he belongs.
“The fact that you are made deputy leader does not make you
a dictator. I had listened to him say in one of his interviews, ‘That’s not how
we do it.’ How do they do it, that one
person sits down and takes a profound decision like that without talking to
anyone?
“Pa Adebanjo should tell the whole of Nigeria who and with
whom he spoke within Afenifere, who gave him the green light and endorsed Obi?
It is just bias and sheer hatred for Asiwaju. That’s all. That was exactly what
pushed him to make a mistake.”
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