President Muhammadu Buhari has joined the Afenifere cultural group, friends and family in celebrating with Pa Reuben Fasoranti on his 97th birthday. The president, in a statement yesterday by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, expressed his admiration for the courage, wisdom, resilience and visionary leadership that the nonagenarian had continued to …
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THE pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has insisted that it would continue to support what it called “the victory of Peter Obi” of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election and all his endeavours in its realisation. Afenifere reiterated that the emergence of a president from the South East …
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THE leader of the apex Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Ayo Adebanjo, has said Nigeria currently has no President-elect despite the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declaring Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress winner of the February 25 presidential election. In a recent interview with Arise TV, Pa Adebanjo …
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FORMOST leaders of pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo and Senator Femi Okunronmu on Saturday attended the Labour Party, LP, presidential campaign rally in Ogun State. The Yoruba leaders were at the campaign rally to receive the presidential candidate of LP, Peter Obi; his running mate, Yusuf Datti …
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The Afenifere Renewal Group has called on the Federal Government to remove all obstacles affecting the supply and use of arms by the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Amotekun. The group, led by its chairman, Olawale Oshun, made the call on Tuesday in Lagos at a press briefing marking …
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Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere; and its northern and eastern counterparts, Arewa Consultative Forum and Ohanaeze Indigbo, respectively, on Saturday, backed the proposition by former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar that the image of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo should be on one of the naira notes to be newly designed. Atiku, who took to his …
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WORRIED by the spike in insecurity resulting in multiple loss of lives and properties in the country, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has called on the Federal Government to change its style and confront the challenges headlong, suggesting ways out of the incessant kidnapping. Afenifere spoke against the background of …
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The leader of Afenifere has revealed why the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation is supporting Peter Obi ahead of Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Adebanjo via a tweet said Tinubu will only continue President Muhammadu Buhari’s incompetent leadership. He also urged Nigerians to put aside tribal differences and vote for the right leadership. “Ahmed Tinubu …
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The Afenifere Renewal Group has called on politicians of the South West extraction to work with the remaining five geo-political zones to actualise the presidential ambition of a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in the 2023 general elections. Micheal Ogungbemi, the ARG Publicity Secretary also praised President Muhammadu …
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Igbo President is the only key that will drive peace, unity and inclusion as well as national development; adding that 2023 presidency rightfully belongs to the South-East region. Yoruba socio cultural group, Afenifere, the Middle Belt forum, Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) and other leaders in the Southern region have …
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