BOMBSHELL: OBASANJO DENIES BEING A YORUBA MAN
Category: Nigerian National News
Speculations that Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, a one-time military Head
of State who later ruled Nigeria for eight years as an elected civilian
President, is not a Yoruba man are bound to heighten following a claim
by a Yoruba elder that Obasanjo himself once confirmed that he is indeed
not of the Yoruba ethnic stock.
Unverified reports in the past had claimed that Obasanjo, who is
officially listed as a Yoruba from Ogun State in the South-West,
actually has an Igbo father from Anambra State in the South-East.
In an interview published this morning in Sunday PUNCH, Sir Olaniwun
Ajayi was a National Conference delegate and chieftain of the Yoruba
socio-political organisation, Afenifere, revealed how Obasanjo told
members of Egbe Omo Yoruba cultural group to which he (Sir Ajayi)
belongs that he is not Yoruba.
Sir Ajayi said the incident took
place in 1998 in the run-up to the 1999 presidential election, in which
the Yoruba rejected Obasanjo and preferred to support Chief Olu Falae.
Sir Ajayi said: “Obasanjo had said that he was not a Yoruba man. We invited him to Egbe Omo Yoruba (a cultural group) and he said no, he was not a Yoruba man.
Apart from that, he had not done well with
our circle. He didn’t like us politically. He didn’t like the Yoruba and
he had done a lot of things to the Yoruba, which we thought was bad
enough. He took a very prominent part in seeing to it that Awolowo did
not win the presidential election against Shehu Shagari.
He made sure that Awolowo did not win the election; although Awolowo
won, he was not declared.
The Yoruba did not like that and they did not
vote for him during his first term (1999 to 2003). Since he was in
charge of the caliphate, he used all the skills and strategies that he
had to make himself president for the second term, irrespective of the
feelings of the Yoruba people.”
Asked if Obasanjo has been showing interest in the affairs of the Yoruba after then, Sir Ajayi replied: “Not to my knowledge.”
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