Leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua, Professor Banji Akintoye has disagreed with leaders of the pan-Yoruba socio-political corporation, Afenifere, on restructuring pronouncing the Yoruba kingdom needs self-willpower now not restructuring.
He said this while he was featured on rise up television’s ‘The Morning display’.
The professor of history who repeatedly stated the aim to gain his Yoruba state goals will surely come to skip argued that if restructuring is implemented, the identical Fulani herders who’ve allegedly killed extra than 29,000 Yoruba will remain in Nigeria and hold their atrocities.
He wondered why there was so much noise about agitation for Yoruba state and people appearance faraway from Fulani who threatened to take over the seat of strength.
Even as acknowledging the function of Afenifere in restructuring, he mentioned that the simplest option to the mindless killing, maiming, raping and kidnapping of Yoruba was to get out of the country.
His words: “Our fathers in Afenifere are doing the proper issue speakme about restructuring so that we will pass lower back and live our personal life the way we used to live it prosperously. however we, every other organization of humans larger than they’re now pronouncing self-determination is the answer not restructuring why due to the fact while you restructure you’re still in Nigeria and those those who are killing, maiming and raping our ladies and daughters remain in Nigeria.
“The best strategy to that is to separate from them; to have our own u . s . a . wherein we are able to make legal guidelines and determine who to confess. but if we restructure, they nevertheless have the right to return to Nigeria and nonetheless perpetrate the evils they do.”
Taking exception to the violence displayed by means of Onitiri-Abiola’s institution, who swooped on the Oyo nation government residence, he stated: “The thoughts of the self-dedication movement and Yoruba Agitation led with the aid of Modupe Onitiri-Abiola aren’t the equal. We commenced the motion for the liberation of the Yoruba state beneath the prevailing law of the global network. people don’t appear to recognize the rights of indigenous humans that there’s a regulation that each country that permits any country that desires to separate from a nation they belong to now to accomplish that.
“The movement that I lead is intellectually state-of-the-art. No single member of the movement, despite the fact that we’re in tens of millions, will do what Mrs Abiola-Onitiri did. She and her human beings are on their personal. they’re no longer a part of us and we are not part of them.
“Our struggle for self-determination has been pursued peacefully. We commenced in 2019 and that is 2024. that is kind of 5 years now and no report of violence. We’ll obtain self-willpower peacefully.”
