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Reject opponents of national conference report -Afenifere
 
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Tue, 27 Jan 2015   ||   Nigeria,
 

Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has called on the people of the South-West not to vote for any presidential candidate who is opposed to the report of the 2014 national conference.

At its meeting in Akure on Tuesday, the group said that the contents of the national conference report were the blueprints of the liberation of the south-west people.

Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Spokesman for Afenifere, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said any presidential candidate “who is silent on the report or fail to state clearly his intentions to implement the report will not get our support.”

He noted that the restructuring of the country was the way forward and anything short of that meant a backward movement.

“We know those who did not support the confab. They also refused to be part of it, if they are voted into office that means the report is dead.

“Our people should not vote for such people. We have crossed Jordan, we are not yet in the Promised Land, but to vote for such government is taking us back to Egypt, Odumakin said.

On the February 14 election, Odumakin said the over 30 million Nigerians yet to collective their PVCs posed a credibility problem for the election.

According to him, if INEC fails to distribute the cards before the election, the election cannot be said to be credible.

“We are not saying the election must be postponed, but if INEC can get the cards to the voters before the election, that is fine, but if not it will affect the credibility of the election,” he said.

He said INEC was yet to convince Afenifere that it could make the PVCs available to the electorate before the polls.

 

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