By Ayo Opadokun The Action Group was publicly inaugurated at the historical hall on the hill in Owo, Town in Ondo Province on the 28th of April 1951 and had representatives from 22 out of the 24 Administrative Divisions of the Western Region. AFENIFERE, therefore, could not have been created by anybody recently as was […]

TEXT OF A PRESS STATEMENT TO MARK THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF EGBE AFENIFERE, ISSUED BY MR. AYO OPADOKUN, FORMER GENERAL SECRETARY OF AFENIFERE, FORMER GENERAL SECRETARY AND SPOKEMAN OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC COALITION (NADECO), FOUNDING CONVENER, COALITION OF DEMOCRATS FOR ELECTORAL REFORM (CODER) AND FORMER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ORGANISATION OF THE UNITY […]

One of the living political movements in Nigeria that has survived over time despite, external treats, assaults and self-inflicted injury of fractionalizations is AFENIFERE. The name AFENIFERE was coined by Chief Meredith Augustus Adisa Akinloye CFR, after the official inauguration of Action Group on April, 28, 1951. Mr. Ayo Opadokun, Afenifere’s former General Secretary in […]

Afenifere, described by many as a pressure group with legitimate force, serving interests and maintaining the waning influence of Yoruba people in the Nigerian Federation, today clocks 70years of its existence.

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