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General News of Tuesday, 16 March 2021

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Fasoranti steps down as Afenifere leader, announces successor

Pa Reuben Fasoranti has stepped down from the position as the leader due to old age Pa Reuben Fasoranti has stepped down from the position as the leader due to old age

National leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-political association, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti has stepped down from the position as the leader due to old age.

Blueprints report that Fasoranti is 95-years-old.

His Chief Ayo Adebanjo has emerged as the acting national leader while the former financial secretary, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, the Alaago of Kajola Ago, Atakumosa East council area, ilesa, Osun state was named the group’s deputy leader.

Fasoranti stepped in as the group leader in the year 2008.

He said the development became necessary “as the group needs more than ever before to have an improved organization with a more effective approach to combat the monstrous invasion of our culture and pride as a people. “Only a more alike and active leadership can achieve this.

"At 95 I am hardly able to provide such and so it is time for me to step aside. “At this junction, I am proud to announce Chief Ayo Adebanjo a politician of the Awolowo school of thought as Acting leader of Afenifere and His Royal Highness, Oba Oladipo Olaitan, the Alaago of Kajola Ago in Atakumosa East Local Government Area, as the Deputy Leader."