Concerned Yoruba Community resident in Kano on Monday said the alleged interference of a sitting Nigerian President on Kano political logjam has fuelled anti Yoruba sentiment by the natives.
Addressing newsmen in Kano, Comrade Taofeek Olalekan Olaosebikon, the Secretary General of Yoruba group expressed worry the unfolding political situation in the state would have adverse effects on them so long the host community believes President Tinubu is allegedly behind the scenes manoeuvres to upturn a popular mandate of Abba Kabir Yusuf.
Comrade Olalekan Olaosebikon explained that “History is there to enlighten us better. Kano is a very volatile state politically and this is the reason why all men and women of goodwill should be concerned about the situation in Kano”
The Secretary General of the pan Yoruba group stated that “we the Yoruba in Kano have been here long enough to articulate and appreciate the political tendencies here and implications for our common good”
He stressed “For the record, many of us were born and raised in Kano, indeed, we have become “Kano indigenes” in some strategic sense. This is our home as we have come to acknowledge and appreciate our stay in Kano and indeed our economic sustenance, wellbeing and development.”
Olaosebikon warned that “Kano must not be allowed to burn on the altar of political expediency or interest, or calculation towards 2027 for that matter.”
He maintained that “Kano must not be allowed to erupt into such preventable chaos as it happened in the past. Of course, many enlightened minds believe very strongly that what we are witnessing in Kano today has a strong relationship with political elite interference in the political results and mandate so obviously given to Abba Kabir Yusuf by the citizens of the state.”
The Yoruba residents pleaded that “For our interest, the Yoruba in Kano, we are using this platform to call on our leading obas and leaders to come to our assistance by engaging President Bola Tinubu on the political situation in Kano.”
Olaosebikon said “There must thus be an elite formation to quickly come together and talk with Mr. President so that he sees beyond whatever briefing he is getting on Kano by vested interests within and outside his party, and act as a statesman”.
The Yoruba group further alleged that “The average man already believes that the judiciary has been interfered with. We are hereby calling on our fathers, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11, to intervene without further delay.”
The group further called on ” the Oba of Lagos, Alake of Egba, Awujale of Ijebuland, Olubadan of Ibadan and other Yoruba leading lights to come to our aid as we won’t find it easy if the situation degenerates further as we actually expect that it would.”
The leadership of the pan Yoruba group stated that in the end “The people here will believe that they were cheated on by a Yoruba President. That is the word going round now. A stitch in time, they say, saves nine.”
