The Senior Elders Forum of the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE) has warned the Federal Government never to postpone the forthcoming general elections, noting that such a move could usher in chaos and anarchy in the country.

The elders also said more than 90 per cent of people in the South West are fed up with the “concoction called Nigeria”.

The senior citizens who spoke through the former National President of YCE, Dansaaki Col. Samuel Adeleye (rtd), in a statement issued on Tuesday in Ibadan maintained that except for a negligible few who are eating mere “crumbs that fell from their masters’ table”, a greater percentage prefer to sit at a roundtable to renegotiate the amalgamation of Nigeria which has since expired.

The statement partly reads, “From our own intelligence report, more than 90 per cent of Yoruba people are already fed up with the present concoction called Nigeria. It is only those who are feeding on the crumbs that fell from their masters’ table that are still paying homage to their Northern leaders”.

While warning against the postponement of the general election fixed for February 25 and March this year, they reasoned that postponing the election would only mean postponing the evil day, adding that somehow in the future, the country will still have to be confronted with that problem.

They frowned at the protest that took place at Ojota, Lagos which resulted in the death of some young Nigerians scolding the organisers for exposing the youths to danger while they sit back abroad and watch them on the television.

“We, the elders heard a report that the protest was organised by some people outside the country. This made us a bit unhappy because those people who organised it didn’t come to lead or supervise the protest so as to prevent it from being violent. We can’t allow our youths to be used as cannon folders”.

“If we had an inkling that they were going to hold the protest, we would have said no, don’t do it because Nigeria is in a dangerous situation especially now when the election is just about 45 days. At the moment, whoever organised that protest chose the wrong time.

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