Ayo Adebanjo, the embattled leader of Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, in the build up to Nigeria’s Presidential Election of February 25 went into a shameful alliance with another candidate, Peter Obi, in a bid to defeat Bola Tinubu who eventually won the contest.

Adebanjo, a Yoruba leader with dwindling goodwill decided to toe the path of dishonesty and deception when he declared the group’s purported support for Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party Presidential Candidate.

Not only was it an eyesore that a Yoruba group was used by a shameless Adebanjo to declare support for a South Easterner against his kinsman, there were many other reasons.

The unholy romance had earlier begun in 2017 when a crucial meeting between the apex Igbo cultural organization Ohaneze Ndigbo and it’s Yoruba counterpart, Afenifere was held in Lagos. The meeting was first of it kind between the two ethnic groups that dominate southern Nigeria.

Pa Reuben Fasoranti had retired from being the apex leader and gave the mandate to Ayo Adabanjo to be the acting leader but for the vile Ayo Adebanjo had for Bola Tinubu, his inefficiency, autocratic and inexperience leadership led to a major blow for the group.

The support for Peter Obi shook to the foundation and tore Afenifere apart as many believes Pa Adebanjo took sole decision and used Afenifere to accentuate a personal support for Obi, a decision that didn’t go down well with members of the socio-political group

The youths under the umbrella of Yoruba Afenifere Youth organisation of Nigeria staged a protest calling for Adebanjo’s removal.

Despite the uncommon opposition, 2023 election has come and gone, and interestingly Bola Tinubu emerged Nigeria President-Elect.

Pa Adebanjo who had made inciting comments for instance that Nigeria will breakup if electorates fail to vote for Obi has continually showed he’s not an elder statesman worthy of honour or emulation.

Obi has challenged the result of the presidential election despite winning in Lagos and Abuja and coming a distant third and it is shameful that the trap intended to kill the bush meat, finally caught the hunter.

But why? Adebanjo only used the opportunity of the election to vent his frustrations against Tinubu. He has long nursed grudges with the president elect and has continued to get more thrashing upon thrashing at every attempt to get even.

He has not forgiven Tinubu for what he described as taking over Lagos structure and has always been at logger heads with the Jagaban of Borgu, but politics is always a game of number, retiring the likes of Adebanjo who are analogue politician remains one of the best that has happened to the Yoruba politics.