Babatunde Raji Fashola - Yoruba Leaders Have Betrayed Yoruba People

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola yesterday the 24th of March 2015 alleged that Yoruba leaders collected money from some politicians, with the aim of persuading their masses to vote for their financiers.

''Babatunde Raji Fashola in a statement said that the standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in  Lagos State, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode urged residents to eschew violence come Saturday the 28th of March 2015, saying; “This election will be historical.”

The Governor While speaking at the APC campaign rally in Shomolu Local Government witnessed the defection of some members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the council to the All Progressive Congress.

Governor Raji Fashola who addressed the crowd in English and Yoruba lamented that the action of these Yoruba leaders discredited the status of the Yoruba people.

Speaking in Yoruba, he said:

“The Yorubas need to think. Some Yoruba leaders have betrayed you the Yoruba’s because of money''.

‘’This election is for freedom. And this was how it happened in the past which prompted the late Herbert Ogunde, who titled one of his songs ‘Yoruba think.’ The money is blood money. And posterity will judge them for that action”.