Odumakin: We’re Heading for Major Showdown at National Conference

The National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, a Yoruba socio-cultural group, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, at the weekend said the southern delegates might eventually head for a major showdown at the on-
going National Conference if the northern delegates fail “to accept that Nigeria is a country of equals.”

Odumakin, who is also a delegate at the conference, gravely lamented the growing influence of what he described as the invisible government in Nigeria, which he said operated in parallel to the
visible government currently headed by President Goodluck Jonathan.


He expressed the views in an interview with journalists in Abuja, where he explained that the pull and push factors, which he said might subvert the purpose for the conference was convoked and eventually culminate in a major showdown between the delegates from the North and South.