A delegate representing Afenifere at the ongoing National Conference, Bashorun Sehinde Arogbofa, has denied allegation that some Yoruba delegates are sell-out based on their positions, assuring that the South west delegates will achieve better deal at the end of the conference.
Bashorun Arogbofa also clarified that though his region, South west lost out at the committee level on the issue of regional government, “we will still go on pushing”
The Afenifere representative told Blueprint in an interview yesterday that the South west delegates were faced with stiff opposition at the committee level on the issue of state constitutions and regional government.
“I must confess to you that our leaders are taking some measures. At the end of the day, all is not lost. We just started deliberating and you can’t really know what each delegate may have in mind.
He said, “Chief Edwin Clark is not the leader of Southern Peoples Congress, he is just one of the leaders, we have three leaders, one for South west, one for South south and one for South east; it only means that Edwin Clark happens to be the most vocal and the most experienced politically. So, to say that Edwin Clark is doing things the way he likes I don’t agree with position.
“Honestly, we Yoruba should be able to give honour to those honour is due, our leaders are doing well, they can do better. We are now mature in our approach and things like that and that is why we have not fight, we have to negotiate and it is a thing of give and take.
“We Yoruba have our own positions and the remaining five zones have their own positions, we have not come as a Yoruba people to divide
Nigeria, we don’t have that mandate, our own is to keep on talking to them, negotiating with them.
“Our position was to negotiate and when you negotiate, you can’t have everything unless you are negotiating with the fools, the others are not fools, they have their interest and unless we go through give and take, I don’t see what we have done so far as a total failure”.