Moses Ofodeme
Pan-Yoruba Socio-Political group, Afenifere on Thursday, November 26, backed the call; seeking the restructuring of Nigeria.
The group feared the country is on the brink of imminent collapse.
Afenifere made this call during its monthly national leadership caucus meeting; held at the country home of its leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, in Akure, Ondo State.
In a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting and released to journalists by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin; Afenifere said the country had virtually become ungovernable; and unless it is restructured and restored to federalism, it would collapse.
The communiqué reads: “As Nigeria enters the worst recession in 33 years and the second in five years of President Muhammadu Buhari we are equally besieged by the attendant poverty/hinged as well as insecurity worsening across the land with kidnappers; armed robbers; and also bandits on the prowl; and government helpless; as well as unable to govern effectively.
“And nobody should take this country on any childish ride; we should just implement the report of the 2014 conference now.”
Afenifere also expressed concern at how the Federal Government tackled the #EndSARS campaign.
The lauded the United Kingdom Parliament over the debate on the #EndSARS malady; and also described it as a welcome development.
The group accused President Buhari of placing his kinsmen of northern extraction above other Nigerians; and called for the immediate opening of Seme borders and other borders in the southern part of the country.
The communiqué added: “Meeting condemned Buhari government’s attitude of a dog that breastfeeds its own puppies and kills other animals for lunch as per management of borders.
“While the Seme and other Southern borders have been closed for more a year now against our people and recently opened for the use to Dangote and BUA, Nigeria is constructing a rail line and about N30billion highway to connect with Fulanis in the Niger Republic with whom the Fulanis running Nigeria have a cultural kinship.
“We reject this apartheid policy and demand the reopening of SEME and other southern BORDERS now!”