Bisi Akande Urges Nigerians to Fight against Inciting Actions of Presidency
Former governor of Osun State and former Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, has warned that the nation will keep getting worse under President Goodluck Jonathan administration.
Akande said this in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Wednesday while chairing the inaugural lecture of Dauda Adegbenro Foundation, held in honour of late former premier of the Western Region, Chief Dauda Adegbenro.
He said that Jonathan’s actions have been pushing the concept of religious and ethnic division in the country and urged Nigerians to resist the power of tyranny that the president has been displaying.
He said: “We are back to the similar era of impunity in Jonathan’s federal government. The government imposes unwanted individuals as leaders in each of the states of Yoruba land.
“Apart from marginalising the Yorubas in all appointments of his government, Jonathan’s trait has always been to persecute the Yoruba leaders who he perceived to have contrary views to his own.
“Jonathan’s first and most significant act of ingratitude to the Yorubas was when he maliciously arrested and prosecuted unjustifiably Dimeji Bankole and Senator Bola Tinubu.
“No government has ever disrespected the Yoruba like the Jonathan’s administration. But it is yet over because few of us with our followers have resolved to continue the struggle for a just and democratic Nigeria.
“More importantly, though for a Yoruba nation that can stand up against discrimination, nepotism and power tyranny, his other acts of ingratitude include divisive propaganda to cause disaffection among various ethnic nationalities and religious divides with a view to undermine the security of Nigeria.”
Akande also accused the President of working against the formation of APC, saying he made the party registration a difficult task.
