AFENIFERE: Fasoranti Steps Aside As Adebanjo Takes Over The Pan Yoruba Group

Leader of the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural association, Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, has stepped down as the leader of the association.
The 95-year-old elder statesman cited old age as the major reason for his decision.

Pa Fasoranti named Chief Ayo Adebanjo, the deputy leader of the group, as the acting national leader while the former financial secretary of the group Oba Oladipo Olaitan, the Alaago of Kajola Ago, Atakumosa East Council Area, Ilesa, State of Osun was named as the group’s deputy leader.

Fasoranti was made the leader of the group in the year 2008.

“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”. He said.

He said the development became necessary “as the group needs more than ever before to have an improved organisation with a more effective approach to combat the monstrous invasion of our culture and pride as a people.