By Seun Opejobi The pan Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has distanced itself from a social media account allegedly b...
By Seun Opejobi
The pan Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has
distanced itself from a social media account allegedly belonging to its Leader,
Pa Ayo Adebanjo.
In a statement by the organization’s National Publicity
Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, Afenifere said that the Twitter account which
some electronic media houses quoted does not belong to any of its leaders,
least of all, Pa Adebanjo.
“It is hereby clearly stated that Chief Adebanjo has no
social media account of any sort. Whenever he has anything to say to the
public, he does so directly by addressing the Press, through an interview or a
Press statement. He also addresses the public through the Secretary-General or
the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere,” he said.
The statement added that the social media account was
created by mischievous persons for nefarious objectives as could be gleaned
from one of the posts purporting to explain why Adebanjo is supporting Peter
Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the forthcoming
presidential election in 2023 “instead of Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, a
Yorubaman.”
Ajayi quoted Chief Adebanjo as saying that his support for
Obi is “more fundamental and constitutional than the reason being purported in
the spurious social media account” under reference.
He said: “In view of the fact that Adebanjo usually speaks
directly with the Press, both print and electronic, any information purporting
to have emanated from his ‘social media account’ should be totally discountenanced
because he has no such account in any form or manner.
“Since the elder statesman does not have any social media
account, whatever is found in the Twitter account could not be said to have
come from him. He has no such accounts as he speaks directly to the media or
causes his views to be channeled to the public via the organisation’s
Secretary-General or the National Publicity Secretary.
“The media and members of the public are hereby enjoined to
disregard any statement purported to have been sourced from Pa Adebanjo’s
social media account”.
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