A faction of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has blasted fake Afenifere splinter groups popping up across the country. The group recently revealed that the emergence of such groups is mainly a calculated attempt to distort its message and mislead Nigerian citizens.
Speaking via a press statement signed by its leader, Olaitan Oladipo, Afenifere said that certain people are currently sponsoring pseudo-groups to ruin the Afenifere brand, which has always stood for truth, justice, and better welfare of members of the Yoruba race.
Listing some of the fake groups as “Afenifere Innovative Group” and the “Afenifere Youth Group,” Olaitan disclosed that the never-ending creation of fake splinter groups is clearly a ploy to silence and deceive the masses.
“The continued production of fake splinter groups of key groups and political parties is a ploy to silence and deceive the masses.
The ploy is to bastardise the Afenifere brand to distort our message since they have not been able to take over our leadership as hoped during the burial of Pa Ayo Adebanjo.
We are suddenly seeing Afenifere Innovative Group, Afenifere Youth Group, etc, showing the proliferation of the Afenifere brand,” it read.
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According to Afenifere, the habit of creating splinter groups goes way back, but the group has consistently outlived the fake associations that are hell bent on obstructing justice and equity.
The group maintained that such counterfeit groups will only last a few election cycles because the real Afenifere brand is publicly known to be a voice for the people, and not government apologists.
“These fake Afenifere only last a few election cycles, because regardless of how many fake Afenifere groups are instigated, Afenifere will continue to be sociopolitically relevant and impactful as long as Nigerians stick to our key principles of truth, justice, equity and welfarism.
The production of fake Afenifere groups will fail because the Afenifere brand is publicly known to be a voice for the people and not government apologists.
The truth of the real Afenifere is in its activism for abundance for all, and not to partake in the fleecing of our commonwealth through selfish Prebendalist jobs and contracts,” it added.
