Femi Okurounmu, a leader of Afenifere, the elite
Yoruba socio-political organisation, says Muhammadu
Buhari jettisoned the idea of restructuring the country
after he became president in 2015.
He said Afenifere supported Buhari in 2007 when he
was in the All Nigeria Peoples Party because he
promised to restructure the country.
Okurounmu said this in an interview with the Punch .
“A northerner can promise anything if he wants power.
In 2007, Afenifere supported President Buhari when he
promised restructuring and true federalism in his
manifesto when he was in All Nigeria Peoples Party.
We made special dresses and campaigned for him in
Ibadan.
The same President Buhari in 2015 had
jettisoned what he promised in 2007. So, that Atiku is
supporting restructuring means nothing to me. All they
want is power to control the rest of us,” he said in
response to a question on Atiku Abubakar’s advocacy
for a restructuring of the country.
On the recent rumours of a coup plot, Okurounmu said
it was an attempt by the chief of army to test how
Nigerians would react if there was an actual coup.
He said the “Hausa-Fulani cabal” was already
planning how to retain power in the region if anything
happened to the president.
“The Chief of Army staff is only flying a kite to see how
people will react if there is a coup. It is the Hausa-
Fulani cabal – each time they feel threatened that
power might slip from their hands, they think of a
coup. All other coups save for the (Kaduna) Nzeogwu
and (Gideon) Orkar coups, were all planned by the
northerners,” he said.
“They did not want a repeat of what happened during
the late President Umaru Yar’Adua when (Goodluck)
Jonathan became president. So, they are already
preparing to retain the presidency in case anything
happens to President Buhari.”
TheCable
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