We won’t vote for you, support Yoruba self determination struggle, Akintoye tells Tinubu

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has been urged to abandon his ambition to lead Nigeria and join the struggle for Yoruba self determination.

The Leader of Yoruba Self Determination Groups, Prof. Banji Akintoye, made the call on Thursday.

Akintoye, who was a senator in the Second Republic said Yoruba people would not vote for Tinubu or any politicians seeking elective position in 2023 because they would have Yoruba Nation by then.

He said this in a statement where he lambasted Tinubu for allegedly circulating a video of an interview he granted to Alaroye, a Yoruba newspapers in 2019 to ” deceive the people to get their support.”

Akintoye said it was disingenuous for Tinubu and his allies to dig up the interview and make it appear as a fresh one just to weaken the support of the people for the struggle for self determination and woo the people to support his presidential ambition.

The statement read in part, “Our brother, Tinubu, you are fighting for yourself alone when your whole family is perishing. There is fire on our roof as a nation. It is unbelievable that any Yoruba man would do to his people what you are doing to our people now.

“You have been carrying around a video of an interview that I granted Alaroye on the campus of Obafemi Awolowo over two years ago. They asked me that if there was no struggle for self-determination and you want to recommend a Yoruba person for President of Nigeria, who would I recommend? And I said yes! If that is so, I would recommend Tinubu, without any hesitation.

” But that is if the times are right, the times are not right, you know, I do not endorse any Yoruba man, Tinubu or any other for any elected position, any position at all in Nigeria at this time. I stand fully and without looking back, with the Yoruba struggle for self-determination for our own country, for Yoruba nation now!