The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has referred to as for accelerated implementation of state policing, financial reforms, and constitutional restructuring as crucial options to Nigeria’s deepening safety and financial crises.
This was a part of the resolutions reached at a caucus assembly held on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, on the Akure residence of the group’s chief, Chief Reuben Famuyide Fasoranti. The assembly was presided over by Oba Olu Falae, Chairman of the Govt Committee.
The assembly, attended by Afenifere leaders and elders, deliberated extensively on the worsening safety state of affairs throughout Yorubaland and Nigeria at giant, the financial system, transportation infrastructure, agriculture, and basic social welfare.
In a communique issued by the Nationwide Publicity Secretary, Jare Ajayi, Afenifere decried the unfold of banditry in elements of Kwara, Kogi, Ogun, Ondo, and Oyo States, whereas additionally expressing grave concern over the “seeming genocide” in Benue, Plateau, Niger, and Katsina states.
Whereas acknowledging authorities efforts to fight insecurity, Afenifere insisted that much more pressing and localised responses are wanted. The group renewed its name for the quick operationalisation of state police and echoed latest recommendations by the Nationwide Safety Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, for empowering native communities to defend themselves.
“Neighborhood leaders, politicians, and locals should determine and verify inner saboteurs collaborating with criminals,” the communique stated. “There have to be agency insurance policies of justice, equity, and a resolve to forestall any group from threatening others of their ancestral properties.”
Afenifere additionally really useful deployment of recent safety applied sciences, together with drones and CCTV, full enforcement of anti-open grazing legal guidelines in states the place they exist, and encouragement of private-sector funding in ranching to cut back farmer-herder clashes.
Afenifere acknowledged preliminary indicators of enchancment within the financial system however urged the federal authorities to accentuate reforms to stabilise the naira, scale back inflation, and create employment.
On infrastructure, the group counseled ongoing federal street tasks however demanded pressing acceleration of labor on key highways crucial to Yorubaland’s growth.
Contractors have been urged to mobilise to websites directly, and authorities was referred to as upon to carry defaulting contractors accountable.
Reiterating a long-held place, Afenifere reaffirmed that constitutional restructuring stays the one viable path to lasting peace and growth in Nigeria.
The group referred to as for an pressing Govt Invoice to be despatched to the Nationwide Meeting to provoke the method.
“We strongly consider that restructuring is the panacea for many of Nigeria’s issues,” the group declared.
