As
Nigerians are getting frustrated at every turn over hunger, deprivations
by the ongoing economic hardship under the Buhari-led administration
Yoruba Elders have finally broken their silence over the role they role
they played for contributing immeasurably to the electoral victory of
President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 presidential election.
Reports reaching DailyGlobeWatch say
that the southwest leaders are particularly unhappy with the President
over his lopsided appointments which, they say, constitutes a grave
danger to the country's fragile unity.
Our source disclosed that key positions
have been allotted to the Muslim north while the dregs are shared
sparingly among other regions and this say is a crushing blow to the
southwest on whose back the President.
The leaders are particularly angry with
Buhari over his lop-sided appointments into key positions, which they
feel was a big blow to the South west region.
In an email message to our Paris
newsroom here in the French capital of Paris, a certain southwest leader
Chief Ayo Opadokun was quoted as saying the Yoruba race committed a
blunder for voting for Buhari in the 2015 general elections and further
stated that there is no going back on correcting that mistake in the
next general election.
Although the Vice-President is a Yoruba
man they said Osinbajo is more or less titular or ceremonial as he only
acts the script of his hegemonic master, President Buhari.
They criticized Osinbajo for not
plucking up enough courage to speaking against the ills of the day and
the power imbalance in under the Buhari-led administration.
His words:
“For the fact that the South-West played
a key role in the emergence of Buhari as the President, it is expected
that they would occupy a more strategic position than the post of vice
president”, said one of the elders.
Asiwaju Bisi Adegbuyi, another prominent
southwesterner and a legal luminary said there is no need brooding over
the mistakes of the past. He said what the region needs to do under the
existing circumstances is none other than self-determination by pulling
out of Nigeria instead of symbolic representation.
“Yoruba race should know what they want. Yoruba made progress when Chief Obafemi Awolowo led us”, he said.
Speaking further they argued that the
National Assembly leadership election has given the impression that
their region is not a force to reckon with politically. They faulted the
President's comment on the National Conference report which Buhari said
is good for the archives, one of the reasons they said expressed deep
regrets and declared the President persona non grata.
Jonathan, they said, is a man they should have queued behind had they known.
Wale Okuniyi also reportedly spoke on
the issue. According to reports, the pro-National Conference image maker
said the emergence of the duo of Saraki and Dogara at the National
Assembly amounted to attempt to emasculating the Yoruba nation in
Nigeria by some hegemonic elements in the All Progressives Congress
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