The National Coordinator of the forum, Adeshina Animashaun, in a statement on Sunday said, “YAF has observed a flurry of activities and desperate attempts by some powerful politicians and individuals to further aggravate the ongoing debate and eventually create tension in the polity ahead of the 2023 general elections.
“We have it on good authority that these powerful politicians and individuals have been on the throat, so to say, of some traditional rulers in the South-West states, in particular, to compel the royal fathers to convene a meeting and issue resolutions backing the decisions they took last Monday in Lagos.
“Similarly, various civil society groups in the South, YAF learnt, are being pressured to meet and issue communique supporting the southern governors’ position on the various issues they raised last Monday in Lagos.