A former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has stated that Yorubas as his in-laws will occupy a topmost place in his policy making and governance, if elected president in 2027.
Atiku, a chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), also extolled the virtues of the Yoruba people, describing them as one of the finest species of the human race.
In a statement by his media consultant, Kola Johnson, the presidential hopeful, counted himself very lucky to have had a wife from amongst those he called the noble specie of the human race, saying his bond with the Yorubas was genetic as of a family.
“It is also for this reason that the interest of the Yorubas will always occupy a topmost place in my policy making and governance if by the special Grace of Allah, I am lucky to be president in 2027.
“Therefore, the fear that my ascension to presidency might lead to Hausa/Fulani domination over Yorubas or other ethnic group does not only arise, but also absolutely unfounded because the entire Yoruba stock are my larger extended family and in-laws,” he said.
Atiku stated that he got married to his first wife, Titi, a Yoruba woman in the 1970s and they have four Yoruba children, saying she is now over 75 years and they are still together.
“My children with Titi sometimes called me “Baba rere” meaning ‘good father’. I am extremely in love with my children and serve as a good father to them as I urge every father to do the same to their children.
“And besides, Yorubas are so sophisticated and highly educated that you can only toy with them at your own peril,” Atiku stated further.
“My ljesha-born Yoruba wife is more than a wife to me. Aptly put, she is my Jewel of Inestimable value and anybody who knows about my family, even from a distance can easily tell you this.
“This has indeed been the reason why both in my private and public life, Yorubas rank amongst my most intimate friends and associates. Therefore I have never joked with them,” he said.
According to Atiku, “Anyone who knows me will tell you with all sincerity, that as a person I am naturally a highly detribalized person. Even before I could ever venture into politics, I flowed easily and effortlessly with people of diverse tribes, ethnicity, religion and whatever sectarian differences.
“This is why immediately I opted into politics without being immodest, I was essentially like a politician without borders, in terms of my absolutely detribalised outlook. Call it a statesman if you would not mind.”
“But frankly speaking however, I cannot but confess that my marital union to a Yoruba wife had indeed gone a long way in endearing the generality of the Yorubas in my heart.
“I see the larger Yoruba regional landscape, not only as my home just as I equally see the extended Yoruba tribes’ men and women as an extended larger family, so the question of Hausa/Fulani domination does not arise at all.”
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