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<\/p>\nAdebanjo noted that it was dishonest and invidious for anybody to be talking of the presidency coming to the Southwest, adding that those making such utterances are not serious about keeping the country together.<\/p>\n
DAILY POST had reported that the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, in a recent interview, asked the Southeast to forget about the 2023 presidency.<\/p>\n
The Afenifere leader has now described the Minister\u2019s statement as a propaganda and wondered how the Southeast would be denied the presidency when all the units in the federation are equal partners.<\/p>\n
Asked by The Sun to react to Amaechi\u2019s statement, Adebanjo said, \u201cThis is just the propaganda we are talking about. The Southwest has said it is for them, and we have been hearing things like this long ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst, the constitution, before any other thing must be revisited, and if the president doesn\u2019t do that, this country will break up. Let us get constitution first, not to continue with this injustice.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy is IPOB saying they want to break away? Because they said they were not included.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe West has been president, the South-South has been president and the North has been president, while the Southeast has not, but you want peace.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t believe any region or any section is to be given the presidency on sufferance; you are not doing anybody any favour, the constitution we are asking for is for anybody to become president constitutionally as applied, not out of sufferance or favour that you vote for me. Is that why and how we were amalgamated, is that the condition for our unity? Absolute nonsense and deceit!<\/p>\n
\u201cThose of them they are deceiving are deceiving themselves. The North doesn\u2019t want to leave power. There are sensible people in the North, even among the Fulani.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are talking about unity, peace in the country, and you are talking of people wanting to disturb you, is that the immediate thing, while the economy is going down?<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no progress until the constitution is rectified. Senator Sola Adeyeye came down with the problem of this constitution and told them that until we change it, there can be no peace and there can be no progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is the problem? If there is any change this country needs now it is the change of this nebulous constitution that is imposed on us by the military.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t buy into this propaganda. It is dishonest and invidious for anybody to be talking of the presidency coming to the Southwest, then you are not serious about keeping the country together.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor unity, for peace and equity how would you exclude, Southeast, a part of the country from the highest position of the country, as if it is not a part of the country?<\/p>\n
\u201cAre we dominating or overruling them? We have to be together in peace and in unity. All those who are gathering because they want to be president in 2023 are cheats and dishonest people, and they are deceiving themselves by trying to keep us to be disunited, so that they come to rule again, and say because we don\u2019t agree. I don\u2019t beg anybody to give me presidency, but give me the right constitution.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be stupid of any Easterner to be thinking of joining Buhari or APC so that they can be president, or any Westerner for that matter to be stupid and foolish enough to be welcoming the idea he can be president in 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cArrant nonsense. That won\u2019t be fair. How can you deny the presidency to a unit of the federation when we are equal partners? Is there sense in that? That is the question we should ask ourselves if we are honest in this country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is why I say, let us have a constitution, which will guide us. We don\u2019t want to be ruled by the favour of a section of the country, that is, you are my friend, and I give you your right. It will not happen, but if it comes to that, everybody will go to his father\u2019s land. There is no doubt about that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t be forced together and be ruling the units of the horse as the rider; they are the rider and we are the horse. No unit will accept it.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elder statesman and leader of the Yoruba apex socio-political organization, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has declared that Nigeria risks disintegrating if the South-East is not allowed to produce the next President in 2023. Adebanjo noted that it was dishonest and invidious for anybody to be talking of the presidency coming to the Southwest, adding that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11471,514],"class_list":["post-122678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-2023-election","tag-igbo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}