In order to guarantee President Bola Tinubu’s reelection in the general elections of 2027, the Yoruba Mandate Group Worldwide has urged support for him from all six geopolitical zones.
The group’s convener, Banji Ojo, claimed that Tinubu had improved the lot of the people by establishing a new path for the nation’s growth and achieving the intended outcomes since taking office.
“The northern part of Nigeria has governed for eight years, and it is the constitutional right of the South to also complete its eight years,” Ojo said in a statement released in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, urging all attempts to deny the Southern part of the country a second term to be rejected.
“Given what the current administration has accomplished nationwide, the president deserves the support of the entire nation for a second term. We demand that all six geopolitical zones lend Tinubu their full support in the general election of 2027. Since taking office, the president has been directing the nation’s development in a new direction,” he stated.
The group accused Rauf Aregbesola, the former governor of Osun State, of betraying the Yoruba race by siding with African Democratic Congress forces prior to the general elections in 2027.
“The former Minister of Interior should be rejected in the entire Yorubaland as he is attempting to deprive Southerners of the chance to retain the presidency for a second term.”
“Aregbesola’s decision to align with likes of Atiku Abubakar, Nasir El-Rufai, Peter Obi, and Rotimi Amaechi amounts to betrayal not only of the Yoruba people and the entire South-West but also of the very political platform that nurtured hic”. Aregbesola, another former Minister of Interior, has been traveling around promoting the party’s ideals.
“But today, as Tinubu settles into his role as President and begins charting a new course for Nigeria, Aregbesola appears absent from the train of national progress and seems to be actively laying tracks in the opposite direction,” the YMG Convener said, accusing the former minister of biting the finger that once fed him.
The former minister’s actions “go beyond a personal disagreement or political recalibration,” the group emphasized. They constitute blatant betrayal of the Yoruba political conscience, which has always aimed for unity in the face of outside opposition, as well as of Tinubu.
