By Gboyega Akinsanmi
The apex Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, turns 70 today amid the spate of banditry, kidnapping and insecurity nationwide, which it said compelled it to reschedule its plan for the anniversary.
Consequently, it directed Muslim members and well-wishers to observe worships on Friday, in mosques, while the Christian counterparts were enjoined to attend service at designated churches determined by state chapters on Sunday.
The group, in a statement by its Deputy Leader, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, yesterday, said while its 70th anniversary called for a grand celebration as already scheduled, the nation’s mood, in view of the worsening and pervasive insecurity, had marred its plans to commemorate the birth of progressivism in the South-west.
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The Action Group was publicly inaugurated at the historical hall on the hill in Owo, Town in Ondo Province on the 28th of April 1951 and had representatives from 22 out of the 24 Administrative Divisions of the Western Region. AFENIFERE, therefore, could not have been created by anybody recently as was attemptedly claimed in revisionism to fit for the purpose of a private agenda. What is true and factual were that:
After the inauguration of the Action Group in Owo, the leaders returned to Ibadan to campaign and for a public inauguration and presentation. There and then people were asking what was going to be the interpretation of the meaning of Action Group in Yoruba language.
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Members of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, will today (Wednesday) commemorate the 70th anniversary of the foremost Yoruba socio-political group which is regarded as the bedrock of progressive political strand in the Southwest region on a low key.
The programme for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the group was contained in a statement issued and signed by the chairman organising committee for the anniversary, Chief Supo Shonibare, who said the death of former publicity secretary, Yinka Odumakin, insecurity in the country and COVID 19 pandemic had greatly affected the plan of the group to celebrate the 70th anniversary in a big way.
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