Northern Bigwigs Dividing South To Retain Power In 2023 – Afenifere Leader

Leader of Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has alleged that the political bigwigs in the North are dividing the South as part of their game plan to retain power in 2023.
Adebanjo spoke on Monday in Abuja, during a Greater Nigeria Conference (GNC) organised and well-attended by political bigwigs in the South East consisting of serving governors, former governors, senators and others.
The theme of the conference was ‘Quest for presidency of South East extraction #togetherwecan#
Adebanjo said the Northern political gladiators have been emphasising zoning but now preach merit and competence to manoeuvre their way for the North to retain power after President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said if it were by merit and competence and not the principle of zoning, some former presidents of Northern extractions wouldn’t have been president.
He said: “Let’s tell Nigerians where it should be and stop deceiving ourselves. We are now at a crossroads. My position is to say it as it is.
“The North does not want to yield power and the only thing they know is to divide the South so that they can have power in 2023. They want to divide the South West first. Now that is the turn of the South East, they (North) are now talking of competence, merit.”