Prominent Yoruba people have endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for re-election.

The Yoruba leaders endorsed the President during a
summit held in Ibadan, Oyo State on Thursday.

The summit which was tagged “The national
conference, 2015 elections and the Yoruba Nation,”
took place at the Premier Hotel, Ibadan where the
presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari
(retd) was rejected.

They claimed Buhari did so many damages to the
zone during his tenure as head of state and that
they were not ready to forgive him.

The summit was organized by the Ondo State
Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, and had many
prominent Yoruba sons and daughters in
attendance, including ; Chief Olu Falae, former
Presidential candidate of the Alliance for
Democracy/ All Peoples Party; Chief Reuben
Fasoranti, Leader, Afenifere; General Adeyinka
Adebayo (retd), leader of the Yoruba Council of
Elders; Senator Femi Okurounmu; Otunba Kunle
Olajide, former Secretary, YCE; Chief Shuaibu
Oyedokun, PDP leader; Archbishop Ayo Ladigbolu;
Otunba Gbenga Daniels, former Governor of Ogun
State; Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala, former
governor of Oyo State; Mr. Peter Obi, former
Governor of Anambra State; Dr. Doyin Okupe,
Senior Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to
President Jonathan; Otunba Iyiola Omisore; Chief
Richard Akinjide (SAN), former Minister of Justice
and Attorney General of the Federation; and
Senator Lekan Balogun, a PDP chieftain.

Also at the summit were Oloye Jumoke Akinjide,
Minister of State, FCT; Prof. Wale Oladipo, national
secretary of PDP; Mr. Yinka Odumakin, Publicity
Secretary, Afenifere; Senator Teslim Folarin, PDP
governorship candidate in Oyo State; Otunba Gani
Adams, Oodua Peoples Congress national co-
ordinator; Prof. Temitope Alonge, Chief Medical
Director, University College Hospital, some
members of Accord Party and Labour Party among
others.
Governor Mimiko who organized the summit said,
“Today, the Yoruba people have marched out in
their large numbers to their political capital, Ibadan
to discuss and articulate once more, an issue which
for decades, has been considered to be the main
agenda for their race. You will recall that for
several decades, the Yoruba were at the fore front
of the agitation for the convocation of a National
Conference.

“I, therefore, congratulate the Yoruba Nation and
all Nigerians that finally, their dream of coming
together to dialogue how they should be governed
has come to reality.

“Let me salute President Jonathan for his bold and
momentous move as well as his focused leadership
which was demonstrated through his compliance
with the agitations by Nigerians to debate their
collective future. Convening the 2014 National
Conference was
indeed a historic assignment that we are proud of
and as a people, we must do everything possible to
ensure that the Confab recommendations get
implemented.

“The Confab Report when implemented, will create
room for each state to have its own constitution,
its own police force, its own prison service, can
create its own local governments, can build its own
airports, seaports and railways and in addition; in
the economic domain, solid minerals that had been
the exclusive
preserve of the Federal Government since
independence, have now been brought to the
concurrent list.
“States can now create employment and develop at
their own pace. With all that, it liberates
everybody, it opens up the political space.”