Fasoranti’s Death: Why reconciliation in Afenifere will be difficult — Okurounmu, ex-Secretary.
•Group’s future uncertain —Mogaji Adejumo By Dapo Akinrefon Tongues across the country are wagging over a possible leadership crisis within the once formidable pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, especially with the demise of its leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti .
Fasoranti died on Tuesday at the age of 100 years.
Before his death, the Yoruba group had been engulfed in leadership crisis.
It is instructive to note that Afenifere hinges on a traditional, non-competitive succession process to choose its next leader. the body faces the critical task of unifying its historically fractured factions. While the old guards like Chief Olu Falae express hope that a new leader will emerge seamlessly through ancestral custom, key insiders paint a much bleaker picture of the group’s future. How division set in In 2023, its then Acting Leader, late Pa Ayo Adebanjo, rocked the boat by suspending two of its officials, the National Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi and National Organising Committee, Abagun Kole Omololu.
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