On Sunday, Reuben Fasoranti, the leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation Afenifere, prayed for Bola Tinubu’s presidential campaign to be successful.
The leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tinubu, paid a visit to Fasoranti’s country house in Akure, Ondo State capital.
The former Lagos governor was observed kneeling slightly during the meeting to accept prayers from the Afenifere leader.
Tinubu last paid Fasoranti a visit in 2019, when he offered his condolences over the passing of his daughter Funke Olakunrin.
On her journey to Lagos, Olakunrin was shot and killed by assailants.
After Ayo Adebanjo, one of the founding fathers of Afenifere, endorsed Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Fasoranti now backs Tinubu.
Adebanjo gave an explanation of why he is backing Obi for president, citing the constitutional principles of equality and federal character.
“The South-west, as I have pointed out, has produced a president and currently sits as VP; the south-south has spent a total of six years in the presidency, but the Igbo people of the south-east have never tasted presidency in Nigeria, and now that the power is due back in the south, equity demands that it be ceded to the Igbo.
“We cannot continue to demand that the Igbo people remain in Nigeria, while we at the same time continue to brutally marginalise and exclude them from the power dynamics,” Adebanjo had said when he endorsed Obi.