The Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere, has sacked two of its national officers, the National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi and the National Organising Committee, Abagun Omololu, for issuing an unauthorised statement in its name and what was described as the constant denigration of the organisation.
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Details of this was contained in a communique issued and signed by its leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo and the Secretary-General, Chief Sola Ebiseni, after the group’s monthly General Meeting, held at Chief Ayo Adebanjo’s residence at Isanya Ogbo, Ogun State.
Abagun Omololu recently issued a statement warning the Chairman of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo Council of Elders, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, to stop insulting the Yoruba race.
But the group, in the communique, however, said that “it received a message credited to Chief Emmanuel Iwunayanwu in a viral video alleging indictment of the Yoruba as political rascals on account of ethnic violence deployed by politicians of the ruling party in Lagos State.
“On the analysis of the video and information at the disposal of Afenifere by people at the Anambra State gathering, we are convinced that Chief Iwunayanwu rightly asserted that the Yoruba and Igbo were not at war and truly condemned the shenanigans of some political rascals.”
“Flowing from the above, Afenifere state that it never issued any statement and dissociated the Organisation from any such statement against Chief Iwunayanwu
Editor: Oloyede Oworu
