We Regret Supporting Buhari: Yoruba Elders.

Yoruba elders

Barely 30 days to his emergence as the President of Nigeria, President Muhammad Buhari seems to have lost the support and confidence the Yoruba Elders have in him.
 

The recent election to the Presidential and Speakership seats of National Assembly seems to have warranted the expression of the Yoruba Elders on the stand of the Yoruba on the key offices in the National coffers of power, which they feel did not suit their plans of having a say in the National executive, legislative or political decisions.

They questioned the President for his silence on the result of the election of the Senate and House of the Representatives and suggested that their region might not benefit from the Buhari administration despite supporting and voting massively for the President during the April 2015 presidential polls.

“For the fact that the South-West played a key role in the emergence of Buhari as the President, it is expected that they would occupy a more strategic position than the post of vice president”, said one of the elders.

They argued that the National Assembly leadership election has given the impression that their region is weak politically.

Speaking to some of the leaders who also participated in the National Conference, they said the region must re-strategies to assert itself in the politics of the nation.

They argued that the position of the Professor Yemi Osinbajo, the current Vice President is just a delegatory position which does not stand or represent the South West region, fully, in the administration of President Buhari, compared to what the region did for him during the electioneering process, which put him in his current position.

Speaking to the Nigerian Pilot Newspaper yesterday, Chief Ayo Opadokun, a South West leader, explained the present imbalance of power in the Buhari’s administration which has rendered the South West region powerless and noted that the Yoruba race made a mistake by not re-electing former President Goodluck Jonathan, considering what he has in stock for the South West Zone if the policies in the National Conference’s report is eventually implemented.

He further stressed that the south west region would benefit if the National Conference report is fully implemented, which the former President was trying to do, but for the power-drunk North leaders who think the report is going to break their urge for power and “born-to-rule” mindset, stood against him and connived with some elders of the Yoruba which paved way for Buhari’s emergence.