Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Tuesday said some South-west leaders, who endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan under the aegis of Afenifere, had betrayed the public trust of Yoruba.
The governor lamented that the South-west witnessed similar developments during the First and Second Republics, which he said, inspired a Yoruba legendary playwright and musician, the late Chief Hubert Ogunde, to produce a song titled ‘Yoruba Ronu’, which means ‘Yoruba think.’
He said this at a political rally he addressed in Somolu alongside the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode and the party’s Chairman, Chief Oladele Ajomale among others.
At the rally, Fashola explained how some South-west leaders “have betrayed us the Yorubas because of money. The Yorubas need to have a rethink. This election is for freedom and nothing else.”
He added that something similar happened in the past, which he said, inspired the late music and theatre legend to one of his songs “Yoruba Ronu,” lamenting that it appeared some south-west leaders had not really learnt their lessons.
He said the South-west leaders betrayed the Yorubas because of money, saying the money “is blood money. Posterity will judge them for that action,” which he said, could undermine the interest of Yoruba.
On the election, Fashola urged the electorate in the state to police their votes after exercising their civic rights on Saturday contrary to the directive of the Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr. Suleiman Abba.
He said asking the electorate to stay 300 metres away from the polling units “is like asking one to stay away from the polling units three times the length of a football field. One cannot see whatever is happening.”
He added that those who asked the electorate to stay 300 metres away from the polling units, planned to rig elections, advising them not “to fight with anyone at the polling units. The electoral act says that once the voting is completed in each of the polling units, the electoral officer must count the vote and announce the
result to the residents. “That is how it is stated in the electoral law. If the residents are not there, who will the electoral officers announce the result of the election to? Stay close to the polling units and do not disrupt the election process.” (Thisday)
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