The Yorubas may vote against President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election because of the way they are being marginalised in the present administration, national coordinator of the Yoruba Youth Alliance (YYA), Mr Jackson Lekan Ojo-Fatoye, has said.
Speaking with our correspondent in Osogbo, Osun State capital, the YYA leader said President Jonathan would need more than campaign to get votes in the South-West next year.
“Our people in Yoruba land feel that President Jonathan marginalised Yoruba race in his government and this may prompt Yoruba people to vote against Jonathan. The president relies on his foot soldiers, but he does not know that most of them lack electoral values. They are the big names, but they cannot pull the crowd because they are self-centred,” he said.
Ojo-Fatoye said in Nigeria’s history, the Yorubas have never been so relegated in the political scene as it is in the current government, saying his group is sensitising the people across the Yoruba states on the need to protect the interest on Yoruba race.
He said: “It is unfortunate that from number 1 position to number 22 as per political hierarchy, there is no Yoruba man there. Don’t forget that Yorubas are not just the people of South-West geopolitical zone alone, we have the Yorubas in Kwara, Kogi, Edo and the Itsekiri of Delta. Jonathan is toying with eight states in Nigeria and he will lose in the Yoruba land.”
Source: Daily trust
