A pan-Yoruba youth group, Yoruba Progressive Peoples Congress, says it is fully behind President Muhammadu Buhari.
Addressing journalists in Lagos on Friday, Amodu Pelumi, president of the group, alleged that the letter written by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo could create friction between Buhari and some Yoruba people.
He said it is obvious that the former president has no desire to relinquish the leadership of the Yoruba political class to his successors as he constantly sees in himself a perfect man to whom all must perpetually prostrate in pursuit of political endorsement.
“Whatever his incentives are for writing that statement, we see it as a deliberate attempt to undermine Yoruba leaders that have emerged since Obasanjo left office,” he said.
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“This presents several unpleasant options: Obasanjo does not want Yoruba leaders on the national scene to become more influential so he is attacking the government in which they serve so that they will appear irrelevant; Obasanjo is desirous of bringing down national leaders of Yoruba ancestry so that he can install pliable yes-men that answer to him;
“Obasanjo wants to attract attention to himself to inflate his political value in the southwest ahead of general elections so that he will get patronage from those doling out cash for votes; Obasanjo is simply being Obasanjo and he is bored in the absence of crisis so he thought to instigate one for the kick of it.”
He urged the former president to desist from his “tear-him-down” approach to seeking relevance.
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Pelumi also accused the elder statesman man of trying to use Coalition for Nigeria as a backdoor to the politics he publicly announced retirement from.
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