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I didn’t declare war on Buhari’s govt – Senator Ojudu Babafemi
Senator Babafemi Ojudu has debunked a report credited to him by an online newspaper, SaharaReporters where he was quoted to have said that the Buhari regime would be worse for Yorubas than the previous regimes.
In a statement he issued on Sunday, Ojudu, who represented the Ekiti Central Senatorial District in the upper legislative chamnber between between 2011 and 2015 stated that he was taken out of context.
He clarified, “My attention has been drawn to a statement credited to me by Sahara Reporters that the Buhari regime will be worse for Yorubas than the preceding regimes. This statement was taken out of context.”
Ojudu was one of the speakers at a conference organized by the Afenifere Renewal Group North America in Detroit, United States of America recently where he spoke on the issue that focused on the Yoruba unity and the conflicts among its political groups and its leaders.
“The exact words I said was, If the Yorubas do not unite and find a common purpose the Buhari regime will be worse for our people than previous regimes”.
He distanced himself from declaring war on a government of President Muhammadu Buhari which he joined other patriots to put in place as an advocate of change.
He blamed the twist in his well-intentioned statement on political jobbers who interpreted his statement to indicate a declaration of war on a regime he strongly believed would bring about the necessary change in the nation.
“Some political jobbers have gone on to interpret this statement to mean that I declare war on Buhari regime. Who am to declare war on a regime that I joined other patriots to put in place? I am a change advocate and I strongly believe this regime will bring about the necessary change in our national life.”
He reinstated the call on the Yorubas to “put our acts together and recognize the challenges facing us and our homeland and put it as a single and collective entity before the other ethnic groups that form Nigeria, development will be far from us no matter our effort at bringing to being this reg
