The National Leader of the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement, Professor Banji Akintoye, has renewed his call for the separation of the Yoruba Nation from Nigeria, saying suspected Fulani bandits killed approximately 29,000 Yoruba people, while women continue to face rape and other atrocities......See Full Story>>.....See Full Story>>
According to Vanguard, in a statement marking the anniversary of Yoruba Unity Day, Akintoye urged South West governors and traditional rulers to declare September 23 as Yoruba Unity Day.
As a respected historian, Akintoye highlighted the ongoing threats to lives and the destruction of farmlands, insisting that the only viable solution is for the Yoruba Nation to break away from Nigeria.
He said: “The only viable and sustainable answer to all this horrible situation is to separate our Yoruba nation from Nigeria, and to establish our own country where we shall be able to exercise our sovereignty to provide security for our land and people, and where we shall be able to run our economy decently in the way that we Yoruba know.”
“In the rural areas of our homeland, where probably the majority of our people live, the Fulani people who are determined to seize land for a homeland of their own, are daily killing our people, have killed a roughly estimated 29,000 of our people, are raping our women, kidnapping men, women and children, extorting millions of Naira in ransom for the kidnapped, destroying farms, food barns and villages.”
Urging the South West governors and traditional rulers to adopt the unity day Akintoye said: “Obas, the fathers of our nation, should adopt this Yoruba unity day in their Councils of Obas in all our Yoruba States. I urge that our Governors, when they assemble in their Southwest Governors meeting, to adopt this Yoruba unity day for all our states.”
“We are seriously pushing for the separation of our Yoruba nation from Nigeria and the Nigerian disaster is different. Our perception of the Nigerian situation is not self-centred. It is not emotional. It is intellectually sound and realistic. And it is accepted by at least 80 per cent of all our Yoruba at home and in the Diaspora. Objectively, there is good reason to fear now that the Nigerian situation could destroy our Yoruba nation.”
“There was some hope when our Governors created Amotekun some years ago to resist the Fulani rampages, but Fulani people in control of the Federal Government have contrived the impotence of Amotekun. The Fulani terrorists are also becoming increasingly audacious in crimes and barbarism in our main cities.
“Our kinsman who won election as President of Nigeria is being made to face ever-mounting harassment, including threats of military overthrow, threats of wholesale regional rebellion, and even a defiant declaration of war.”
Recall that General Christopher Musa had vowed that notorious bandit kingpin Bello Turji will be neutralized the same way the Nigerian army has been eliminating other bandits terrorizing the country.
This statement was revealed by the CDS yesterday during a live chat section on Arise TV news.