National Coordinator of Yoruba Youth Alliance (YYA), Jackson Ojo, has advised President Gooluck Jonathan not to expect votes from Nigeria’s southwestern region in 2015.
Addressing newsmen in Osogbo, Ojo described President Jonathan as number one enemy of the Yoruba, who does not have the interest of the region at heart.
According to him, those referring to themselves as Yoruba leaders and also planning to deliver Southwest to the President in 2015 will fail.
He was reacting to assurance given to President Jonathan by Olabode Goerge, Iyiola Omisore, Ebenezer Babatope, Hossia Agboola, Professor Tunde Adeniran, Kayode Adetokunbo, Wole Oyelese, Lekan Balogun, Musiliu Obanikoro, when they visited him in Abuja.
According to him, “the Yoruba people are worse hit in the power sharing and political office holders under the present administration. No Yorubaman can be found in the list of 20 top political office in the country.
“We’ve not had it so bad as it is being experienced under the present administration of Jonathan. Even during the worst and satanic government of the late General, Sanni Abacah, some Yoruba participated and there were adequate representation. It was the same story under General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
“Despite the fact that Yoruba did not vote for Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in his first term, Yoruba was still appointed to hold some political positions, even under late Musa Yar’Adua, we were still adequately recognized, but now it is not so again.
“The election that brought President Jonathan to power in 2011 saw the Yorubas voting for him massively even not the way we voted our own Chief Olusegun Obasanjo. Despite that fact, the Yorubas are nowhere to be found in Jonathan’s government. The Yorubas are now tenant because we are not partaker in the present government,” he said.
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