A coalition under the aegis of the Yoruba Appraisal Forum (YAF) Tuesday raised the alarm over an alleged plot by an unnamed former Nigerian president, some clerics and politicians to undermine the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
YAF also alleged that the former president and members of his group were promoting agitations in the South-west in pursuit of the said agenda.
The forum further alleged that the group had concluded plans to hold a meeting in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday, June 10, 2021 to fine-tune the strategy for the alleged plot.
In a statement released Tuesday, the forum, therefore, urged Nigerians, government and security agencies to immediately take appropriate actions against the members of his group “to nip their evil plans in the bud.”
It urged the federal government and the security agencies to ensure that the planned meeting by members of his group scheduled to hold in Abuja on Thursday “and even any other day, must never be allowed to hold.”
The forum’s national coordinator, Adesina Animashaun, who led hundreds of other YAF members and residents during the motorcade, used the occasion to raise the alarm of the alleged plot by the former president and his group to destabilise and bring down the President Buhari-led government.
Animashaun appealed to President Buhari, the service chiefs, the Inspector General of Police and other major stakeholders in Nigeria to rise to the challenge and stop the alleged plan by this group of unpatriotic Nigerians to destroy the incumbent administration and cause an unprecedented chaos in the country.
YAF also stated that it had already sent petitions on the alleged plan by some groups and individuals to cause violence and chaos in the South-west to President Muhammadu Buhari; governors of the six South-west states, Senate President, Ahmad Lawal; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila; Speakers of the six South-West states’ Houses of Assembly, the Service Chiefs, National Security Adviser, the Inspector General of Police, Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Ministers of Police Affairs, Interior, Defence and Information & National Orientation.
YAF said it has also petitioned prominent traditional rulers in Yorubaland, including the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi; Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi; Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo; Awujale of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona; Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Saliu Adetunji; Ataoja of Osogbo, Oba Jimoh Olanipekun Oyetunji; Deji of Akure, Oba Aladetoyinbo Ogunlade Aladelusi; Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu; Ewi of Ado-Ekiti, Oba Rufus Aladesanmi III; and other prominent leaders in Yorubaland.
The forum urged the police and the other security agencies to take appropriate and urgent steps to deal decisively with these elements bent on fomenting trouble in the South-west and Nigeria as a whole.
