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Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere Renewal Group(ARG) has described the statement issued on Monday by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, Garba Shehu, as “unschooled and condescending.”
In a statement signed on Tuesday by its Publicity Secretary, Kunle Famoriyo, ARG lambasted Shehu’s arrogance for describing the proclamation of the Southern governors as of “questionable legality.”
According to ARG, the garbage from Shehu is laden with an unwritten aspect, which is to the effect that the fate of hundreds of millions of Nigerians lies only on the disposition of President Buhari and that every contrary view must be deemed illegal.
“It is now clear, even to the blind, that Mr. Shehu, who has shown over time that his stock-in-trade is ethnic chauvinism, is not speaking for the presidency. Rather, he is the mouthpiece of Fulani oligarchs, whose nepotistic and unbridled ambition is the pursuit of a nebulous prophecy of Fulani conquest of Nigeria. Other than this, there is no justification for Mr. Shehu, who has a penchant for addressing Nigerians as slaves and second-class citizens, to still retain his position by now.
“If anyone is in doubt before as to the surreptitious pursuit of ethnocentric agenda by the Buhari administration, Shehu’s disgraceful labelling of the proclamations of Southern governors as of ‘questionable legality’ is a clear reflection of the subterfuge going on in the presidency,”the statement said.
ARG added that “for whatever it is worth, we want to tell Garba Shehu and those he represents that their ethnocentric pursuit has been truncated in the past and it will remain truncated.”
The group enjoins all peace-loving Nigerians to stand in solidarity with the position of the Southern governors and calls on the governors to remain resolute on and united by their proclamations.