Senator Femi Okunrounmu, a leader of the Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, says the Yorubas have started regretting voting for President Muhammadu Buhari.
Okunrounmu, who supported former President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term, said on Saturday, that before the presidential election, the North was looking for an opportunity to return to power while the South-West were the ones behind real change
The Afenifere leader also took a swipe of Bola Tinubu, national leader of the APC, whom he said was not the right leader of the Yoruba people.
He said, “As a Yoruba man, I am very uncomfortable with this (appointments). Buhari had a reputation for ethnic bias and when we said it during the election, they said we were lying.
“The change the APC was talking about meant two different things. The APC in the North saw change as an opportunity to return power to the region while those in the South-West were looking for genuine social change. At the end, the North just used the South-West to get into Aso Rock and now we are regretting it.”
“Look at the power configuration in Nigeria today; there are three arms of government: The executive, the legislature and the judiciary.
The executive is headed by Buhari who is a northerner; the two arms of the legislature which are the Senate and the House of Representatives, are headed by northerners: Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara, respectively.
“The Chief Justice, Mahmoud Mohammed, who heads the judiciary, is also a northerner. So, the entire government is completely in the hands of northerners.”
Speaking of Tinubu, he said: “I have never hesitated in telling people that Tinubu is not the right leader for the Yoruba race. He is not truthful and that was why Gani Fawehinmi took him to court.”
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