Labelling Tinubu’s administration ‘Yoruba government’ attempt to scuttle second term – Afenifere

The National Organising Secretary of the Pan Yoruba Socio Political Organisation Afenifere Abagun Kole Omololu has said labelling President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s led administration ‘Yoruba government’ by some was to stir embers of division among Nigerians to deny the President a second term in office.

He said the Tinubu’s government is not running a Yoruba government but an all inclusive administration.

A statement by the Afenifere chieftain said Tinubu did not became President by tribal inheritance but by democratic choice through result of votes by Nigerians of every tongue, creed and religion.

According to him, to label Tinubu’s administration as “Yoruba” is not only dishonest but a vile act of tribal opportunism.

He said: “When President Muhammadu Buhari held office for eight years, no one branded his leadership as a “Fulani government. No tribal coalition was formed to deny him a second term on the grounds of ethnicity.

“He was allowed to serve out his mandate in full and rightly so. The same principle of equity and continuity must apply now. Let no one demand justice only when it suits them, but deny it when it is owed to others.”


He stated thad Tinubu shall be re-elected as by Nigerians under the watch of the Constitution.

“Nigeria is not a personal or tribal empire. Our nation will not bow to tribal blackmail. It will not bend to invented narratives. And it will not break under the weight of conspiracy. Let all patriots rally to the defence of truth, justice, and constitutional order. Let us remember that nations fall not only when tanks roll through streets but also when lies, repeated often enough, begin to sound like truth.

“We have come too far to be dragged backward by petty ambition disguised as activism. Let us reject the agents of sabotage not because they threaten one man, but because they threaten all of us.

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“We have taken due note of the recent expose by Dr. Sandra Duru, detailing her conversation with the suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, particularly her shocking admission of a clandestine plot to sabotage the administration of His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, which the conspirators have stereotyped as a “Yoruba government,” and thereby stir the embers of division to deny him a second term.

“This is no light accusation. It is a revelation that demands reflection from patriots and repudiation from all who still hold Nigeria dear.”

He saluted Duru for her uncommon courage for speaking truth not only to power but to conspiracy.


“Her voice is a reminder that integrity still walks among us, and that silence, in the face of wickedness, is not an option for those who love this country.

“Furthermore, we condemn in the strongest terms the campaign of calumny and false allegations against the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio a man whose only crime, it appears, is that he dares to cooperate and collaborate with the President in the spirit of statesmanship and progress.

“We reject the weaponisation of false allegations as political tools especially when such weapons are aimed at innocent men, families and private lives.


“Politics has its place but it must never trespass the boundaries of human decency. To smear a man’s name, fabricate charges, and unleash innuendo on his children, his home, and his honour that is not politics. That is malice in its rawest form.

“We strongly decry the internationalisation of fabricated domestic issues by those who authored the falsehood in the first place. This is akin to setting fire to your own seat in a cinema and running out crying “Fire! Fire!” not out of alarm, but out of selfish ambition.

“It is selfishness that seeks to burn down the image of the nation to satisfy the ego of one person who believes that except she has her way, the country should not have peace.”