{"id":74734,"date":"2022-10-21T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T09:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi"},"modified":"2022-10-21T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T11:09:32","slug":"presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi","title":{"rendered":"Presidency not Yoruba property \u2013 Afenifere on endorsing Peter Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The apex Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has said the Presidency is not the personal property of the Yorubas.<\/p>\n<p>Afenifere was responding to allegations of picking the Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>Sola Ebiseni, the Afenifere\u2019s Secretary-General, said the body\u2019s support for Obi was based on principle and the interest of the Nigerian State.<\/p>\n<p>Ebiseni made the clarification during an interview on Arise TV.<\/p>\n<p>The South-East has been agitating for a run at the presidency and the popularity of Peter Obi, especially amongst the youth demography might upset the established order.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ebiseni said, \u201cOur support of Peter Obi was based on the principle of justice. The presidency is not the personal property of the Yorubas and BAT is a product of the Afenifere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe group\u2019s support has nothing to do with personalities but peace in the country. Afenifere is not apolitical with seasoned politicians within the ranks. The Nigerian state comes first and we want a nation with everyone having a sense of belonging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd since we want it to come to the South, no one region should corner it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The apex Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has said the Presidency is not the personal property of the Yorubas. Afenifere was responding to allegations of picking the Labour Party, LP, Presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Sola Ebiseni, the Afenifere\u2019s Secretary-General, said the body\u2019s support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":74733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1522,1570,2140,254,222],"class_list":["post-74734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-afenifere","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-peter-obi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Presidency not Yoruba property \u2013 Afenifere on endorsing Peter Obi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The apex Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has said the Presidency is not the personal property of the Yor ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Presidency not Yoruba property \u2013 Afenifere on endorsing Peter Obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The apex Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, has said the Presidency is not the personal property of the Yor ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-21T09:46:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-21T11:09:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_13-63527dd557c70.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"775\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Presidency not Yoruba property \u2013 Afenifere on endorsing Peter Obi\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-21T09:46:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-21T11:09:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi\"},\"wordCount\":216,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_13-63527dd557c70.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Afenifere\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Peter Obi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/presidency-not-yoruba-property-afenifere-on-endorsing-peter-obi\",\"name\":\"Presidency not Yoruba property \u2013 Afenifere on endorsing Peter Obi - 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