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Last Updated: Sunrday, November 28th, 2004 HOME | Previous Page 2007: No election without restructuring, says Afenifere   • IBB still owes us an explanation on June 12   By Bolaji Tunji   If plans by the pan-Yoruba Socio-Cultural Organisation, Afenifere comes to fruition, there may not be an election in 2007, as the body has vowed that no election will hold without a restructuring of the polity. Speaking to Sunday Independent, the Administrative Secretary of the organisation, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said the issue of true federalism and restructuring of the country is more important than any other thing, adding that no election will hold without this. He said the priority of the organisation now is to mobilise Nigerians on the need for restructuring. “That is our priority now and we have started doing that,” he said. Speaking on the plans by Dr. Sunday Mbang, the former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), to mobilise against the candidature of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida in 2007, Odumakin said that was not the concern of Afenifere. “Our concern now is the issue of restructuring of the polity, there won’t be 2007 for IBB, even if he wants to contest, without restructuring.” He, however, averred that General Babangida owed Nigerians an explanation over the annulment of the June 12 election. “Many people died; many women were made widows, overnight. People had their houses burnt. So, IBB owes Nigerians an explanation on the election which led to that problem,” he said. Also speaking on allegations of harassment and intimidation levelled against the Peoples Democratic Party governors in the South-West by former Alliance for Democracy governors and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Odumakin said the issue is not in the purview of the organisation. “It is not in our purview and so we won’t want to comment on it,” he said.   Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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