Afenifere faction sacks Publicity, National Organising Secretaries

We are unaware of our suspension, say Ajayi, Omololu 

The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, yesterday, sacked its two principal officers, the National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi and the National Organising Secretary, Abagun Kole Omololu.

According to the communiqué issued after the monthly general meeting of the Chief Ayo Adebanjo-led faction, at Isanya-Ogbo, the country-home of Pa Ayo Adebanjo in Ogun State, the decision was hinged on the unauthorised statements issued on the recent political happenings in the country.

Afenifere, while accusing the two officers of allegedly denigrating the group, dissociated itself from the statement issued against Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu over his purported anti-Yoruba comments.

MEANWHILE, when contacted, Ajayi and Omololu said they were not aware of the decision since they didn’t attend the meeting. Ajayi said he was absent at yesterday’s meeting on health ground and that he took permission from the organisation.

“I was never questioned. The decision to suspend me came as a surprise because I wasn’t aware and nobody communicated it to me,” he said. Omololu, on his own, said: “I am in London as we speak.”

He expressed disappointment in what he described as autocratic and military leadership approach of Chief Ayo Adebanjo.
 
According to him, “I was never issued a query or made to face any disciplinary measure before. I don’t know the basis for my suspension and the action is totally un-Afenifere.
 
“If Afenifere is formed to protect the interest of Yoruba people, then at what point does the organisation become a political body that is now canvassing for the interest of another region and individual that is not a Yoruba person when the interest of another Yoruba man or region is involved.”