The leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, says Nigerians should look beyond the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the coming 2023 elections.
He made this claim when he spoke with newsmen at the weekend.
Adebanjo is known to have taken a stand on the choice of presidential candidate by pitching his tent with Labour Party’s Peter Obi.
According to him, presidential candidates of the PDP and APC, Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu were part of the system that plunged the nation into it’s current woes.
While advocating for the restructuring of the country, Adebanjo said the APC and the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has refused to change the constitution despite promising to do so in before the 2015 elections that brought them to power.
He added that the stand of the South for Power to move away from the North is another reason why the Nigerians must not consider the PDP.
“certainly, there will be crises if Obi wins the election and is not recognised. If he doesn’t win and you vote in the Fulani or those who have done woefully, there will be crises, because it is between Tinubu and Atiku, if not Obi.
“Tinubu represents the government that has failed and Atiku represents another failure. Am I wrong? Atiku is representing a region that is excluding one of the members of the federation and you want peace? Or you want us to go back to somebody who has proved clueless about our problems and has worsened our situation for eight years?
“Except Obi wins and you allow him to rule, because I don’t rule out his winning and Buhari saying no, and that there is a problem in Katsina and the election is inconclusive. And I am sure he will not get away with it. If he tries to Babangida us, we shall Babangida him.
“The position is simple, you don’t need a signboard; with this revolution of the youth and they vote and you say you won’t recognise it, then you cause a revolution.
” If you make change impossible, you make violent change inevitable. I am repeating it for anybody to come and catch me. For the election to be free and fair and Obi wins, but you don’t want him to be sworn in, you are joking and calling for revolution.”
