We won’t disappoint S’West, says Arogbofa

A delegate representing Afenifere at the National Conference, Bashorun Sehinde Arogbofa, has denied the allegation that some Yoruba delegates have compromised their positions. Rather he assured the Yoruba that the South-West delegates would achieve a better deal for the region at the end of the confab.

He also clarified that although the South-West lost out at the committee level on the issue of zoning, the delegates were not discouraged.

“We will still go on pushing these things,” he stated.

The Afenifere representative told journalists that the South-West delegates were faced with stiff opposition at the committee level on the issue of state constitution and regional government.

Arogbofa said, “I must confess to you that our leaders are taking some measures that at the end of the day, we should know that all is not lost. We just started deliberating and you can’t really know what each delegate might have in mind, there could have been some delegates who have been stiff in their opinion but we are coming to the floor of the House. That does not mean we in the South-West are going to be sold out, no we won’t, there must be a minimum that other people too must accept.”

Reacting to an allegation that some South-West delegates had been bought over by some powers-that-be through a group known as Southern Nigerian Delegates, Arogbofa said there was nothing of such.

He added, “We Yoruba have our own positions and the remaining five zones have their own positions, we have not come as a Yoruba people to divide Nigeria, we don’t have that mandate, our own is to keep on talking to them, negotiating with them.”