Only a more alike and active leadership can achieve this. At 95 I am hardly able to provide such and so it is time for me to step aside.
Pa Reuben Fasoranti on Tuesday announced his resignation and stepped down from the position of the National Leader of the Pan Yoruba Socio-Political Group, Afenifere.
Fasoranti, 95, also named former deputy leader of the Yoruba group, Chief Ayo Adebanjo as the acting national leader while the former financial secretary, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, the Alaago of Kajola Ago, Atakumosa East council area, Ilesa, Osun State was announced the group’s deputy leader.
Fasoranti, during the group’s monthly meeting held in Akure, the Ondo state capital, recalled how emerged as its leader in 2008.
Explaining why he made the decision, Fasoranti said the development became necessary “as the group needs more than ever before to have an improved organisation with a more effective approach to combat the monstrous invasion of our culture and pride as a people.
“Only a more alike and active leadership can achieve this. At 95 I am hardly able to provide such and so it is time for me to step aside.
“At this junction, I am proud to announce Chief Ayo Adebanjo a politician of the Awolowo school of thought as Acting leader of Afenifere and His Royal Highness, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, the Alaago of Kajola Ago in Atakumosa East Local Government Area, as the Deputy Leader.”
