2019: Afenifere to announce preferred presidential candidate

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere has said it was yet to adopt a presidential aspirant for the 2019 general election.

The organisation, however, assured Nigerians that it would announce a preferred candidate.

Afenifere said it was presently preoccupied with engaging presidential aspirants to know their stand on restructuring and hear their plans to make Nigeria better.

Afenifere, in a statement on Tuesday by its leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, advised the public to “wait for the appropriate time when we shall speak to our country”.

He explained that adopting aspirants could not have taken place when political parties had not put forward their candidates.

The statement read: “The attention of Afenifere has been drawn to a spurious report in circulation that the group has adopted a presidential aspirant for the 2019 elections.

“We ordinarily would have ignored the report as it makes no sense to suggest that a serious group would adopt an aspirant when political parties have yet to produce candidates.

“A rebuttal is, however, being issued for the sake of the unwary who may be hoodwinked by the said report.”