Ahead of the March 28 general elections, prominent Yoruba natives have endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for another four years.

The president got the nods of the Yoruba people during a summit held in Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State on Thursday.

The South-West indigenes at the summit tagged, “The national conference, 2015 elections and the Yoruba Nation,” held at the Premier Hotel, Ibadan, outrightly rejected the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd).

They claimed Buhari did so many damages to the zone during his tenure as head of state and that they were not ready to forgive him.

The summit which was organised by the Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, was graced by prominent Yoruba sons and daughters, which include: Chief Olu Falae, former Presidential candidate of the Alliance for Democracy/ All Peoples Party; Chief Reuben Fasoranti, Leader, Afenifere; General Adeyinka Adebayo (retd), leader of the Yoruba Council of Elders; Senator Femi Okurounmu; Otunba Kunle Olajide, former Secretary, YCE; Chief Shuaibu Oyedokun, PDP leader; Archbishop Ayo Ladigbolu; Otunba Gbenga Daniels, former Governor of Ogun State; Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, former governor of Oyo State; Mr. Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State; Dr. Doyin Okupe, Senior Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to President Jonathan; Otunba Iyiola Omisore; Chief Richard Akinjide (SAN), former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation; and Senator Lekan Balogun, a PDP chieftain.

Also at the event were Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, Minister of State, FCT; Prof. Wale Oladipo, national secretary of PDP; Mr. Yinka Odumakin, Publicity Secretary, Afenifere; Senator Teslim Folarin, PDP governorship candidate in Oyo State; Otunba Gani Adams, Oodua Peoples Congress national co-ordinator; Prof. Temitope Alonge, Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital, some members of Accord Party and Labour Party among others.

Speaking at the event, Governor Mimiko averred that: “Today, the Yoruba people have marched out in their large numbers to their political capital, Ibadan to discuss and articulate once more, an issue which for decades, has been considered to be the main agenda for their race. You will recall that for several decades, the Yoruba were at the fore front of the agitation for the convocation of a National Conference.

“I, therefore, congratulate the Yoruba Nation and all Nigerians that finally, their dream of coming together to dialogue how they should be governed has come to reality.

“Let me salute President Jonathan for his bold and momentous move as well as his focused leadership which was demonstrated through his compliance with the agitations by Nigerians to debate their collective future. Convening the 2014 National Conference was indeed a historic assignment that we are proud of and as a people, we must do everything possible to ensure that the Confab recommendations get implemented.

“The Confab Report when implemented, will create room for each state to have its own constitution, its own police force, its own prison service, can create its own local governments, can build its own airports, seaports and railways and in addition; in the economic domain, solid minerals that had been the exclusive preserve of the Federal Government since independence, have now been brought to the concurrent list.

“States can now create employment and develop at their own pace. With all that, it liberates everybody, it opens up the political space,” he said.

Firefire:
Lagos plays host to lots of housing estates in the country, which are mostly owned by either the government or private developers. The first

civilian governor of Lagos State, Lateef Jakande, during his time as the governor of the state, was widely acclaimed to have built many estates

in the 70s and 80s with functional facilities and basic infrastructure.


By the time his administration was brought to an abrupt end in 1983 by a coup with Major General Mohamodu Buhari Rtd. as benefactor,

Jakande had left estates in many parts of Lagos which had the potential to meet the housing needs of over 20,000 people.


Not only were the houses constructed by Jakande, examples of what low-cost housing estates are meant for, they were also said to be of good

qualities. It is therefore not too surprising that no other governor of Lagos State since then has been able to achieve Jakande’s feats in low

cost housing provision.

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“The Confab Report when implemented, will create room for each state to have its own constitution, its own police force, its own prison service, can create its own local governments, can build its own airports, seaports and railways and in addition; in the economic domain, solid minerals that had been the exclusive preserve of the Federal Government since independence, have now been brought to the concurrent list.