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A cross section of Yoruba leaders at a post confab meeting

Lagos hosts Yoruba leader’s post-Confab final summit tomorrow
 
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Wed, 18 Mar 2015   ||   Nigeria,
 

The Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, will tomorrow, play host to the final in the series of the South-West post-Confab summit convened by the Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko.

Yoruba leaders and interests groups in the South-West have been meeting on the need for the re-election of the convener of the 2014 national conference, President Goodluck Jonathan, to enable for  the  implementation of the recommendations of  the confab as promised by the president.

According to a statement issued by the Commissioner for Information in Ondo State, Honourable Kayode Akinmade, the summit which had been scheduled to commence by 10.00 a.m. would have in attendance prominent Yoruba leaders among them, Chief Olu Falae, Chief  Reuben Fasonranti, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Sir Olanihun Ajayi, Chief Shonibare and Chief Korede Duyile.

Others include Chief (Mrs) Kofoworola Bucknor, General Adeyinka Adebayo,  Senator Femi Okunrounmu, Dr Kunle Olajide, Yoruba Unity Group; Dr Fredrick Fasehun, Otunba Gani Adams, coordinator of Odua Peoples Congress (OPC); Afenifere Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, Professor Dupe Olatubosun and the Yoruba delegates to the confab which held last year, as well as interest groups in the South-West.

Among the groups expected at the summit apart from the Yoruba elders from the region, included the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), OPC, Yoruba Youth Movements, among others.

The first  in  the post-confab series, held in Akure, the capital city of Ondo State, with the second edition holding at the Premier Hotel, Ibadan.

Youths in the South-West  also met in Akure recently, as part of the series to deliberate on their role in the implementation of the report of the 2014 national confab.

At each of the summit, participants endorsed the candidature of the Peoples Democratic Party and convener of the 2014 confab, President Jonathan for the 2015 presidential election.

They hinged the endorsement on the belief that the president, who promised to implement the report of the confab within the first 12 months in office if re-elected, will fulfill the promise.

 The South-West leaders, various interest groups and youths who have participated in the previously held summit  also established  in their various communique that the only solution to the challenges confronting the nation was the implementation of the confab report, which they also maintained could only be implemented with President Jonathan as president, because the opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC) and its leaders were vehemently opposed to the convocation of the confab and even boycotted it. 

 

 

 

 

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