National leader of the mainstream Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has said on Sunday, that he was not supposed to be at the meeting in Akure, Ondo State, where some Yoruba people endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu for 2023, insisting that his support for the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Mr. Peter Obi was already known.
Chief Ayo Adebanjo, and the Secretary-General of the Afenifere group, Chief Sola Ebiseni, and many other Afenifere leaders were absent at the Akure meeting, according to Punch.
Recall that in March 2021, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, citing old age, stepped down as national leader of Afenifere and officially handed over the national leadership of the organisation to Chief Ayo Adebanjo.
Adebanjo said: “In the first place, I was not supposed to be there. In the second place, we have made our position clear. Pa Fasoranti asked me if I was coming, I said if he asked me to come. But tell him what the position of Afenifere is. Once he has done that, I’m not going into any controversy about that.
“Afenifere has taken a stance to support Obi. Any other splinter or rebel group… I’m not going into any controversy about that. I regard that as a diversion. What we are going to do now is see that we succeed at the election.”