Save Nigeria From Total Collapse, Afenifere Tells FG

 

Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, has expressed concern over what it described as the near collapse of the nation since the administration of President Bola Tinubu took over.

Afenifere, in a communique by the Deputy Leader, Oladipo Olaitan and Deputy Secretary General, Alade Rotimi-John after the regular quarterly meeting held on August 27, 2024, at Isanya- Ogbo, Ogun State, maintained said the state of the nation has left the people perplexed.

L noted that the Nigerian people are sorely troubled by the pervasive hardship, crippling hunger, unremitting insecurity in the land, runaway inflation, and massive unemployment all of which have left the people worse off than they were at the beginning.

The group also observed the reckless, obstinate and indifferent attitude of the government to the long-term effects of the lack of forethought or purpose regarding the handling of the public revenue.

Afenifere, therefore, rued some of the Tinubu administration’s profligate predilection or inclination to waste resources, stating that $100m or N 240 billion as the purchase price for an Airbus A330 as a jet for the President and a further $50m to retrofit it is uncalled for.

In addition, Afenifere noted that N950m each as purchase price of a new set of armoured Cadillac Escalade Limousine SUVs as befitting vehicles for the President, N21billion for renovating a new mansion for the Vice President, N90billion as subsidy for religious pilgrimage and N10 billion to renovate the Presidential Lodge as Ribadu Road, Lagos among others give an insight of a wasteful nature of the administration.

“Afenifere is scandalised or shamed by the odium and poor international or global image which have attended these profligate or prodigal expenditures. We are puzzled that a government can be so masterful at diversionary tactics just to lull the people to sleep and confuse them as they wake amid grave national circumstances and of a strident or sustained debate of its desultory or unmethodical handling of governance

There Is No Different Between Buhari And Roman Emperor Who Did Nothing While His Empire Burnt – Afenifere

The Yoruba sociopolitical organisation leader,  Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, has likened President Muhammadu Buhari to Roman Emperor Nero, whom he said did nothing while his empire burnt.

According to the foremost Yoruba group, Buhari has been making several errors in government.

A statement signed by Afenifere’s spokesman, Jare Ajayi, on behalf of Adebanjo said, “This attitude on the part of President Buhari ‘recalls to one’s mind, the story of the Roman Emperor Nero who was busy on the fiddle when his empire was burning’.

“Afenifere not only called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ‘redirect its administration adroitly, we advise his government to embrace democratic ethos immediately by pursuing only policies that are in the best interests of the people.”

Speaking on the need to restructure the country, Adebanjo noted that the only panacea for Nigeria’s various problems is for the government to “shun nepotism, confront insecurity and restructure the country immediately”.

“The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has taken measures that were totally against the interests of the Nigerian populace.

“Contrary to the promises made during the electoral campaigns by the President and his party, the All Progressives Congress, the prices of commodities and services have skyrocketed while social services delivery and infrastructure kept receding,” he said.

Buhari’s Re-election Bid Divides Afenifere In Southwest

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has split into two groups, with one backing President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid and the other opposing it.

Some national dailies had reported on Friday that Afenifere had endorsed Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo as the Yoruba candidates for the 2019 presidential election.