Aleader
of the pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Senator Femi
Okunrounmu, says the Yoruba will regret voting President Muhammadu
Buhari.
Okunrounmu, who was the Chairman of the defunct
Presidential Advisory Committee on National Conference, had supported
former President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term and asked the
Yoruba to vote for him so that he would be able to implement the report
of the conference.
However, Buhari received over two million votes from the South-West in the last election, defeating Jonathan in the process.
Speaking
with our correspondent during a telephone interview on Saturday,
Okunrounmu said his predictions about the Buhari administration were
already coming true.
He said Buhari’s recent appointments showed that the North would dominate Nigeria in all spheres.
He
said, “As a Yoruba man, I am very uncomfortable with this
(appointments). Buhari had a reputation for ethnic bias and when we said
it during the election, they said we were lying.
“The change the
APC was talking about meant two different things. The APC in the North
saw change as an opportunity to return power to the region while those
in the South-West were looking for genuine social change. At the end,
the North just used the South-West to get into Aso Rock and now we are
regretting it.”
The President’s spokesperson, Mr. Femi Adesina, had said Buhari would balance the lopsided appointments very soon.
However, Okunrounmu said all the important appointments had already been made.
He noted that no other appointment could be more powerful than the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
He
said, “Look at the power configuration in Nigeria today; there are
three arms of government: The executive, the legislature and the
judiciary. The executive is headed by Buhari who is a northerner; the
two arms of the legislature which are the Senate and the House of
Representatives, are headed by northerners: Bukola Saraki and Yakubu
Dogara, respectively.
“The Chief Justice, Mahmoud Mohammed, who
heads the judiciary, is also a northerner. So, the entire government is
completely in the hands of northerners.”
The Afenifere chieftain
said the fact that a Yoruba man is the vice-president meant nothing as
there was no constitutional role for the vice-president.
He said
the vice-president slot was a ploy which the All Progressives Congress
leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, used in deceiving the people of the
South-West.
He added, “I have never hesitated in telling people
that Tinubu is not the right leader for the Yoruba race. He is not
truthful and that was why Gani Fawehinmi took him to court.”
Okunrounmu,
who was a member of the 4th Assembly, urged Buhari to prove his critics
right by implementing the report of the conference.
He said,
“Clearly, his body language and the body language of all his lieutenants
show that they are not keen on implementing the resolutions of the
conference. However, in spite of that, those of us who believe it is the
panacea to the problems of this nation shall not stop putting pressure
on the President and all other organs of government to let them see that
this is the way forward.”
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