Segun Awolowo Faces Sack As Nigeria Export Promotion Council Boss Over Refusal To Publicly Campaign For President Goodluck Jonathan

Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Export Promotion Council, Segun Awolowo is about to kiss his job goodbye due to his refusal to publicly identify with his employers. According to reports, the grandson of late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo currently making a living as an appointee of President Goodluck Jonathan has refused to come out publicly to endorse the re election campaign of his principal.
President Jonathan handlers had allegedly attempted to draft him into campaign at securing better foothold in the southwest. He was supposed to come out as a beneficiary of the Jonathan administration as tell the people why Mr President should be re elected. His open endorsement is expected to take the wind out of the advantage All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, Muhammadu buhari posses - Deola, the of his running mate, Yemi Osinbajo is of the Awolowo clan.
Segun keeps coming up with excuses and has refused to endorse Jonathan.His refusal has been interpreted as a blatant disloyalty by passionate supporters of President Jonathan’s re election.
Sources have revealed that the consequence of his refusal to endorse his employer is an ultimate sack.
Insist an insider ‘those against him believe it is a simple case....if he doesn’t have enough faith in this administration to publicly throw his weight behind Mr President’s re election, he should go and someone passionate about the cause should come and take over’. One of the reasons given by Mr Awolowo is that he can’t publicly campaign against his cousin’s wife, that it would portray the family as in crisis.
Segun Awolowo’s grandfather, Chief Obafemi Awolowo aside being an enigmatic part of the nation’s history, remains the parameter of judging a leader in Yoruba land. More digs revealed the string keeping him in place is the weighing of the effect of such a move against an Awolowo. There are those who believe keeping him in place has it’s political value, the name Awolowo is still associated with the Jonathan administration- and outright sack would literarily be an act of war some are said to counselling.