SAN FRANCISCO, May 12, (THEWILL) – A group, Concerned Om’Oduwa Progressive Youth Assembly, COPYA, has warned ex-Aviation minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode over his unguarded comments regarding the health condition of President Muhammadu Buhari, requesting him to surrender to the supremacy of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of the Yoruba race when it comes to Nigerian politics.
Speaking at a press conference in Lagos on Thursday, the convener of the group, Mr. Kola Salawu said Femi Fani-Kayode cannot speak for the Yorubas and should thus beat a retreat on issues pertaining to the President’s health.
The group, which also demanded a ceasefire from all peace loving Yoruba sons and daughters in the media about the president’s health, warned that such utterances could cause disaffection amongst ethnic nationalities in the country.
It said that Fani-Kayode crossed the boundaries when he allegedly called on the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo to take over government from President Muhammadu Buhari.
“He has backup vocalists in this demented call that has no place in the constitution. It is nothing short of a ploy to pitch the Yoruba in government, led by Vice President Osinbajo, against other ethnic groups in the country.
“We therefore warn that Femi Fani -Kayode and his likes are distracting the Vice President who assiduously goes about his duties as assigned to him by his boss, President Buhari,” the group said.
COPYA maintained that recent issues raised by Fani Kayode in what they called his incoherent response to a constitutionalissue as regards President Buhari’s letter, as transmitted to the National Assembly, is clearly to cast the Vice President, who is now the Acting President, as a desperate person.
It explained that the essence of sending warning to the former minister is to ensure that there is peace between Yorubas and other tribes.
The group asserted that no Yoruba man will engage in the kind of treachery that Femi Fani -Kayode and his supporters are contemplating.
“We count President Buhari fortunate in this regard that he did not populate his cabinet with traitors, which means Fani-Kayode or anyone with such intention would never find a willing person to do what they have in mind, which is someone to backstab the president. It is not who we are,” Salawu said.
