Socio-political organization Pan-Yoruba, Afenifere, announced on Tuesday the reason why South-West governors are reluctant to tackle the region's challenges of insecurity.
The group said the explanation is due to party loyalty and fear of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) offending members.
Speaking to Daily Independent, Yinka Odumakin, the National Publicity Secretary of the organisation, said that unless there is autonomy by restructuring, there will be no solution to the insecution problems in the region.
“For the governors, we understand that party allegiance is a problem for them. If they take any firm action against the herdsmen, they will be offending their party leaders.
“I know the difficulty around that. When the Inspector General of Police (IGP) came to South-West to organise a security summit, and at the end of the summit, they made our governors to sign a communiqué that OPC and Miyetti Allah will jointly work together to patrol and secure South-West.
“You are asking the cause of the problem to go and proffer solution to it because we are under their binds. So, there is no solution to this issue until we get autonomy.
“The Nigeria structure is one that encourages these kind of things and until we bring down the structure that brings every power in the hands of Abuja, our lives are not going to be secured”, he said.
Daily Independent had previously reported that the governors of the South-West, especially those elected on the APC platform, are not on the same page with Iba Gani Ad-ams, Yorubaland's Aare Ona Kakanfo, to find a final solution to the insecurity problems that rock the area.
Of the six governors in the region, only Gov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, a leader of the Peo-ples Democratic Party (PDP), displayed some support for the efforts of Aare Ona Ka-kanfo to rid the South-West of banditry, kidnapping and other vices.
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