{"id":75442,"date":"2022-11-01T10:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T09:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi"},"modified":"2022-11-01T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T10:36:59","slug":"pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi","title":{"rendered":"Pa Fasoranti talks tough on Afenifere leadership, support for Tinubu, Obi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Following the mixed reactions that trailed the visit of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, foremost leader of the pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti has stated that he remains the leader of the group.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pa Fasoranti, the frontline Yoruba group is for Tinubu and not for Peter Obi of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, who was said to be in acting capacity of the group, had endorsed Obi, as he insisted that it is the turn of the South-East to produce the next President.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Adebanjo\u2019s endorsement of Obi, Pa Fasoranti threw his weight behind Tinubu\u2019s 2023 bid and blessed him.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the issue of the leadership of the group as well as the support for Obi and Tinubu, Pa Fasoranti said \u201cI\u2019m still the leader of Afenifere. Aferenifere has not endorsed Obi, we are endorsing Jagaban (Bola Ahmed Tinubu) for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can see, the trend, the approval and the acceptability. You could see what happened when Tinubu came to meet me in Akure. Media carried the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdebanjo does not have the capacity to warn me not to welcome Tinubu. Can he do that successfully?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened was that Adebanjo took a stand and I took a stand. I didn\u2019t call him and he didn\u2019t call me. We never spoke about the visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you can see, Jagaban is accepted and we approve of him. Obi has no stand in our mind at all.\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. Following the mixed reactions that trailed the visit of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, foremost leader of the pan Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti has stated that he remains the leader of the group. According to Pa Fasoranti, the frontline Yoruba group is for Tinubu and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":75441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1522,1570,2140,254,4891,9069,945],"class_list":["post-75442","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-obi","tag-pa-fasoranti","tag-tinubu"],"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>Pa Fasoranti talks tough on Afenifere leadership, support for Tinubu, Obi - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following the mixed reactions that trailed the visit of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC ...\" \/>\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\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pa Fasoranti talks tough on Afenifere leadership, support for Tinubu, Obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following the mixed reactions that trailed the visit of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-01T09:02:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-01T10:36:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_10.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1440\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1440\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Pa Fasoranti talks tough on Afenifere leadership, support for Tinubu, Obi\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-01T09:02:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-01T10:36:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi\"},\"wordCount\":278,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_10.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Afenifere\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"Obi\",\"Pa Fasoranti\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/pa-fasoranti-talks-tough-on-afenifere-leadership-support-for-tinubu-obi\",\"name\":\"Pa Fasoranti talks tough on Afenifere leadership, support for Tinubu, Obi - 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