AFENIFERE HOSTS OBASANJO ,SUPPORTS CHANGE GOVERNMENT IN 2019.

AFENIFERE HOSTS OBASANJO ,SUPPORTS CHANGE GOVERNMENT IN 2019.

As the 2019 general elections draw closer, former president Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, paid a surprise visit to the leaders of the pan Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, in Akure, Ondo State where he said the age-long hostility between him and the group is over.
The former president who simply told journalists that he came to visit  his father said the hostility had been amicably resolved.


Obasanjo’s group, the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM), recently fused into the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
His visit to Afenifere leaders was said to be the first of its kind in 15 years. The closed door meeting which lasted about 30 minutes took place in the home of the leader of the group, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, at about 3:03pm with other chieftains in attendance.
At the end of the meeting, Obasanjo in his usual jovial style said “I only come to greet my father.”
He dismissed further probes on whether the meeting had any political intention and the “why now?” question, saying “can a son not come to see his father any time he wishes? Do I have to take permission from you before seeing my father? And how does that become your concern?”
But  Pa Fasoranti, who was flanked by other leaders of the group, like Chief Seinde Arogbofa, Chief Sola Ebiseni, Kole Omololu, Chief Femi Aliko among others, described  the visit as a good reunion.
“He (Obasanjo) said he has come to pay courtesy visit, saying he appreciates all my efforts about Nigeria particularly the Yoruba nation. He has come now because he values my friendship,” Pa Fasoranti said.
He said he did not speak about 2019 with them, saying the long-standing hostility between Obasanjo and the Pan Yoruba socio-political organisation “is over now.”
The Yoruba leader added that they supported Obasanjo’s letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over indiscriminate killing of Nigerians, herdsmen menace, fight against corruption and other alleged excesses of the Federal Government.
“We are in full support. We are dissatisfied with the mode of governance, we are dissatisfied,” he said, however, pointing out that they didn’t discuss the ADC though they were also in support of a mega party to dislodge APC in 2019 elections.
On the possible merger between SDP, PDP and ADC ahead of the mega party, he enthused that “it is the joy of everybody if formidable teams can unite against the government that we have there now.”