Yoruba leaders hold colloquium on 2019 general election in Lagos

YORUBA leaders across party lines and groups, including Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Senator Femi Okurounmu, Chief Olabode George, among others will gather in Lagos on Monday, December 3, 2018, at a Colloquium to discuss the interest of the race as the country goes into the general election next year.

The Colloquium with the title: “Yoruba Nation Yesterday, Today, and the Challenges of 2019,” which is scheduled to hold at the Recital Hall, Muson Centre, Onikan Lagos by 12 pm, will also feature the need to foster unity and prepare the Yoruba race for the expected leadership role in the current and future political dispensation and her relevance in the growth of Nigeria.

This was contained in a statement issued and signed by Prince Uthman Shodipe-Dosunmu, who is Special Adviser on Political Matters to the former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George.

According to the release, the colloquium, which will have Chief George, the Atona of The Source, as the Keynote speaker, will, in addition, have all elected candidates all political parties in Yoruba land in attendance.

Shodipe-Dosunmu said the colloquium would be chaired by Chief Bode Olajumoke while former Transport Minister, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, will feature as one of the discussants.

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He said discussion would focus on the Yoruba nation before and after the 1914 Amalgamation of the Southern Protectorate and the Northern Protectorate and the key role played by the Yoruba leaders, including Late Herbert Macauley, the sage Chief Obafemi Awolowo, among others in the political development of the country.

“The colloquium will define a way forward for the race and the discussion will include the demands and the expectations of our people in the coming dispensation as 2019 beckons,” the statement added.

“It is sad that the Yoruba nation that produced eminent Nigerians in all fields of endeavours, such as Professor Wole Soyinka, Late Chief Rotimi Williams, Late Professor Ayodele Awojobi and Chief Akintola has declined to a state of rudderless indifference without any rallying leadership,” it lamented.