By Paul Akalonu
Festus Keyamo, a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council, has subtly warned Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate (LP), not to rely on Afenifere’s endorsement.
This came just a day after Ayo Adebanjo, the leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere, explained why his organization was supporting Obi’s candidacy.
“The south-west, as I have pointed out, has produced a president and currently sits as VP; the south-south has spent a total of 6 years in the presidency, but the Igbo people of the south-east have never tasted presidency in Nigeria, and now that the power is due back in the south, equity demands that it be ceded to the Igbo,” Adebanjo had said in a statement.
“We cannot continue to demand that the Igbo people remain in Nigeria, while we at the same time continue to be brutally marginalised and exclude them from the power dynamics.
Keyamo in a tweet on Tuesday, September 27 reacted to the statement made by Adebanjo, he said that the presidential candidates Afenifere supported in 2015 and 2019 could not win at the polls, implying that the group’s support for Obi will not benefit him in the 2023 general election.
