“I would like to be remembered for helping to build a strong and united multi-ethnic state. I want to be remembered for creating the basis for an irreversible revolution in education, in the provision of social justice in Nigeria. I have not yet succeeded in all these. But I have set a pattern which no other Nigerian can ignore.”
Bring together all ethnic nationalities to foster a truly federal entity in building a nation state where equality in opportunity, selfless governance and transparency in the management of the collective wealth of the nation is elevated to be the essence of governance.
Men and women who fail to see the contrived fractured dismemberment of Afenifere or the sponsored counterfeiting of the Yoruba people’s political consciousness flagship as the death knell of the people’s just struggle for socio-economic and political progress are beyond the pale. They seem to be ignoring the bounds of good foresight or judgement in civilised company. Political expediency has tended to becloud or cause visual confusion respecting what true Afenifere is. Though many members of Afenifere continue to uphold the cherished values of its founding fathers, the cheap allure of the conservative neo-liberal policies of the Tinubu school has
It is instructive to observe that Afenifere is a descriptive name of the followers of Awolowo’s prescription of Social Democratic economic and social left of centre approach to governance; as well as to moral and ethical practices in governance. Afenifere is partisan to the extent that it has always had to profess preferred political objectives or options. From the time of its Founder, it has, for instance, supported non-Yoruba leadership even when Yoruba were vying for the same position. Awolowo supported Ernest Ikoli to lead the Nigerian Youth Movement against Prince Samuel Akinsanya, later Odemo of Ishara. He was
LOOKING AT 29 YEARS BACK, EXACTLY ON 26 SEPTEMBER 1992 IN HISTORY:* _The saddest event in Military Aviation history in Nigeria..Remained unsolved till this day!!! Forgetful people and ungrateful country besotted with trivials, temporary and selfish issues clothing it as national interest. They have forgotten them but May their souls continue to rest in peace…. 🤲 READ……..It all started this way…. Read on Saturday, September 26, 1992 was a perfect day for flying. There was an atmosphere of joy and anticipation amongst the passengers when the last of the 158 passengers took his seat at the rear of the aircraft.
Afenifere added that the country is an unjust and suffocating system that must be restructured if it must progress. Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere in the United Kingdom and Europe, has said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government missed a “golden opportunity” to restructure Nigeria as currently constituted. Afenifere added that the country is an unjust and suffocating system that must be restructured if it must progress. Afenifere added that Nigeria was in crisis of legitimacy because Nigerians did not see the country as their own, adding that this was part of the “ethnic, regional and religious clashes; abuse of constitution and
L’ETAT c’est moi’ (I am the State) is actually not a concept but a state of mind by which a ruler sees himself as the personification of the State. A statement attributed to Louis XIV who was King of France for over 72 years from 1638 to 1715. Though Louis was king during the era of divine rights of kings, his unprecedented long reign is not unlikely to imbue him with a sense of entitlement not only to the rulership of the State but also found the State inseparable from him. In the pre-colonial Nigerian setting, it was actually not
It is important to state that AFENIFERE from its inception remained a MOVEMENT of people who are committed to the greatest welfare of the people as enunciated by Chief Obafemi Awolowo under the philosophical caption of Egalitarianism, Life More Abundant. Afenifere was never a registered political party but it was the propelling Movement of people behind the AG that was registered.
There has never been a time when Afenifere was a cultural organisation. Egbe Omo Oduduwa which was a cultural organisation for all Yoruba could not be a political organisation as the Yoruba people cherish pluralism and not all Yoruba people would subscribe to the political philosophy of evolving an egalitarian society.
