The Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, on Friday, condemned what it described as a clandestine plot to destabilise and sabotage the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu by tagging it as a Yoruba government.
Afenifere’s condemnation follows a stunning revelation by a United States-based psychologist and media scientist, Sandra Duru, in a conversation with the suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan.
In a statement signed by its Organising Secretary, Abagun Kole Omololu, the group maintained that President Tinubu’s administration is a Nigerian government and warned those fanning the embers of division in an attempt to deny him a second term.
Omololu said, the recent exposé by Dr Sandra Duru, detailing her conversation with the suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, particularly her shocking admission of a clandestine plot to sabotage the administration of His Excellency President Bola Tinubu, which the conspirators have stereotyped as a Yoruba government, and thereby stir the embers of division to deny him a second term.
This is no light accusation. It is a revelation that demands reflection from patriots and repudiation from all who still hold Nigeria dear.
Let it be said, plainly and without ambiguity, that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government is not a Yoruba government. It is a Nigerian government.
He did not ascend to the presidency by tribal inheritance but by democratic choice — the result of votes cast in faith by Nigerians of every tongue, creed, and religion.
According to him, to label this administration as Yoruba and weaponise that label as grounds for sabotage is not only dishonest but a vile act of tribal opportunism and sedition. We reject it utterly.
We remind the nation: When President Muhammadu Buhari held office for eight years, no one branded his leadership as a Fulani government.
No tribal coalition was formed to deny him a second term on the grounds of ethnicity. He was allowed to serve out his mandate in full — and rightly so.
The same principle of equity and continuity must apply now. Let no one demand justice only when it suits them, but deny it when it is owed to others.
President Tinubu shall serve his full term of eight years, by the will of the good people of this country and under the watch of the Constitution. To suggest otherwise is to play Russian roulette with our national destiny.
Afenifere, however, saluted Duru for her uncommon courage, for speaking truth not only to power but to conspiracy.
Her voice is a reminder that integrity still walks among us and that silence, in the face of wickedness, is not an option for those who love this country, he said.
Furthermore, we condemn in the strongest terms the campaign of calumny and false allegations against the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio — a man whose only crime, it appears, is that he dares to cooperate and collaborate with the President in the spirit of statesmanship and progress.
We reject the weaponisation of false allegations as political tools — especially when such weapons are aimed at innocent men, families, and private lives. Politics has its place, but it must never trespass the boundaries of human decency.
To smear a man’s name, fabricate charges, and unleash innuendo on his children, his home, and his honour — that is not politics. That is malice in its rawest form.
We strongly decry the internationalisation of fabricated domestic issues by those who authored the falsehood in the first place. This is akin to setting fire to your own seat in a cinema and running out crying, Fire! Fire! — not out of alarm, but out of selfish ambition.
It is selfishness that seeks to burn down the image of the nation to satisfy the ego of one person who believes that except she has her way, the country should not have peace.
Nigeria is not a personal or tribal empire. Our nation will not bow to tribal blackmail. It will not bend to invented narratives. And it will not break under the weight of conspiracy.
Let all patriots rally to the defence of truth, justice, and constitutional order. Let us remember that nations fall not only when tanks roll through streets — but also when lies, repeated often enough, begin to sound like truth.
We have come too far to be dragged backwards by petty ambition disguised as activism. Let us reject the agents of sabotage — not because they threaten one man, but because they threaten all of us.
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