The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, will best serve the interest of the Yoruba if made the next president, Dr. Femi Okurounmu has declared.
Okurounmu, a chieftain of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, made the assertion on Sunday while speaking on an online interactive current affairs programme, Boiling Point Arena, transmitted live on Oodua 99.9FM and connected to social media platforms.
Okurounmu said Obi had become a natural and spontaneous third Force capable of repositioning Nigeria to take back her once enviable position as Giant of Africa.
According to Okurounmu, the Third Force movement around Mr Obi is God’s divine agenda to liberate Nigerians who are already pushed to the walls.
“Our people have been pushed to the walls and until they mobilize themselves to take the future of Nigerians into their own hands. Things have gone so bad that even the person who is blind can see that this is not the Nigeria they want.”
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He noted that for Nigeria to be ‘liberated’, the youths would need to mobilise and gather themselves into a formidable force to take power from ‘corrupt, selfish and oppressive elders’.
Okurounmu added: “Nigerians will only liberate themselves when the youths gather themselves. I have always spoken that the future belongs to the youths, that until the youths gather themselves and mobilize themselves and form themselves into a formidable force to take power from these elders, these corrupt elders, these selfish elders, from these oppressive elders that there will be no future for Nigeria.”
Campaigning against the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Okurounmu said the current pitiable “slave” treatment being meted out to Yoruba people under the ongoing eight year of Muhammadu Buhari regime occasioned by Fulanization might be sustained if allowed to become president.
The popular Boiling Point Arena is the brainchild of Mr Ayo Arowojolu, a seasoned media professional.
The topic of discourse was: “The Current State of Nigeria and The Gathering Political Storm.”
