2023: No rift in Afenifere as Farotimi backs Pa Adebanjo

A prominent member of Pan-Yoruba Socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere and Lagos Lawyer, Dele Farotimi has cleared doubts over the endorsement of Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi by the body.

Speaking on AIT breakfast programme “Kakaaki” monitored in Abuja, on Friday, on the furore over Afenifere’s double endorsement of the presidential candidates of LP and All Progressives Congress (APC),
Farotimi described the purported second endorsement as a none issue.

Farotimi who is the Spokesperson, Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Organisation, argued that Afenifere did not endorse any other candidate aside from Peter Obi, adding that there had not been another endorsement by Afenifere.

Said he: “I stand to be corrected that Afenifere has endorsed another presidential candidate aside Labour Party candidate Mr. Peter Obi. Those who converged in Akure last weekend have not been able to attend Afenifere meeting for several years”.

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Speaking further Farotimi said: “It breaks my heart to see some persons of Yoruba origin working so hard to divide Afenifere. It is so sad that some people will go out of the way to drag a 96-year old Pa Rueben Fasoranti into what he does not want to do at his age”.

According to him what happened in Akure had its implications because it did not speak well of those who wanted to destroy Afenifere, stressing that Afenifere represented the truth.

“To start with, Afenifere endorsed Mr. Peter Obi based on equity and justice. Also, Afenifere chose to support Obi because record of Labour Party mirrors that of Action Group (AG) of late Pa Obafemi Awolowo. We are Omoluabi, which means rigteousness”, Farotimi insisted.

He however argued that those trying to divide Afenifere had already failed because the leadership of Pa Ayo Adebanjo was not under threat by anyone as he remained Afenifere’s leader after Pa Fasoranti handed over to him over two years.