• Says appointment will bring ‘House of Oduduwa’ back on track
• Urges FG to allow states to implement forest guards’ initiatives
• Expresses concern over insecurity

The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has appointed the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and the monarch of Ilu Abo in Akure North Local Council of Ondo State, Oba Olu Falae, as the Chairman of the association’s National Executive Committee.

The organisation, during a caucus meeting held at the residence of its National Leader of the group, Reuben Fasoranti, emphasised that Falae’s role, which will not conflict with that of Fasoranti, would further stimulate the growth of the Yoruba apex group.

According to the National Publicity Secretary of the Yoruba group, Jare Ajayi, who read the communiqué after the meeting, considering the security concerns in the country, the Federal Government and the National Assembly must set the machinery in motion to restructure the country with urgency.

The Yoruba group, while imploring the Federal Government to take urgent actions to ease the situation, also advised the Tinubu-led administration to allow the state governments to implement the national forest guard initiative as part of the decentralisation of security architecture.

The communiqué read in part: “The meeting considered various challenges confronting the nation. We have come to the conclusion that the most potent means of tackling the challenges is restructuring.

“As we congratulate the current administration for clocking two years in office, we urge it to make restructuring one of the major policies in its third year in office.”

Meanwhile, the National Organising Secretary of the association, Abagun Kole Omololu, said that Falae’s appointment would reinvigorate the organisation with a view to ensure that the “House of Oduduwa is back on track to project the Yoruba Mandate.”