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  • Sunday Igboho, other Yoruba nation agitators snub Akeredolu’s warning, ground Akure with protests

    Sunday Igboho, other Yoruba nation agitators snub Akeredolu’s warning, ground Akure with protests

    Commercial activities in Akure, the Ondo State capital, were on Saturday grounded as hundreds of persons trooped out to join the Ilana Omo Oodua rally.

    Ilana Omo Oodua, a group agitating for a sovereign Yoruba nation stormed Akure in continuation of its support rally in all the Southwest States.

    Vehicular traffic was diverted from the busy Oba Adeshida.

    Some traders packed up their wares and closed their shops to avoid hoodlums from looting their goods in case the rally turned violent.

    The rally moved from the Isikan Roundabout to the Oba Adeshida road before proceeding to the Deji of Akure’s palace where Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo known as Sunday Igboho, addressed Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi.

    Igboho said there was no going back on the demand for a Yoruba nation and reiterated his stand that there would be no election in the South-West states in 2023.

    He called on all Yoruba people to be united and stopped being slaves to the northerners.

    He said, “We are in Akure to demand Yoruba Nation and now is the time for the actualization of Yoruba nation of our dream and we are ready to employ all peaceful means to achieve this.

    “We are tired of the oppression, our traditional rulers have been relegated to the background, our political leaders have little or no regard for our traditional institutions, this must be reversed and power should reside with our traditional rulers.

    “We have the resources to develop our Yoruba nation but all these had been siphoned to develop another region but now is the time to save the Yoruba nation from slavery.

    “We have the support of our governors in the southwest, and I want to assure them that this rally across the southwest region will not lead to violence.

    “We are here to receive your blessing and support and we can assure you that with you on our side, all our dreams will come to reality, we stand for the peaceful dissolution of Nigeria and any violent person during our rallies is a mole planted among us.”

    Deji of Akure who was represented y the Edemo of Akure, High Chief Afolabi Fayehun, urged Adeyemo and his followers to be focused and avoid violence.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu had earlier warned Igboho and other agitators to stay away from Ondo as the state is happy being a federating unit of Nigeria and not interest interested in being part of a Yoruba nation.

    TNG reports that a similar protest took place in Osun State Capital, Osogbo last week.

  • Sunday Igboho joins Yoruba nation agitators in Osun

    Sunday Igboho joins Yoruba nation agitators in Osun

    Popular Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemi also known as Sunday Igboho on Saturday joined hundreds residents of Osogbo, Osun State capital occupying the streets in agitation for the creation of Yoruba nation.

    He joined other agitators at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park to demand the Yoruba Nation.

    Igboho also demanded the release of operatives of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) who were detained for arresting notorious Fulani herder, Iskilu Wakili, in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State.

    Clad in t-shirts with the ‘Yoruba Nation’ inscription, the protesters converged on November 27 Bridge before proceeding to Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, the Osun State capital where Igboho later joined them.

    The group, under the umbrella of Omo Oduduwa United marched through the streets of Oshogbo from Ogo-Oluwa, Aregbe junction, Fakunle, Ola-Iya, and Odi Olowo before gathering at the freedom park to make their demands known.

    They carried placards and chanted songs of solidarity.

    Meanwhile, the venue of the rally was heavy with the presence of operatives of the Nigeria Police Force as well as men of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.

  • JUST IN: Yoruba Nation agitators storm Osogbo

    JUST IN: Yoruba Nation agitators storm Osogbo

    Scores of youths under the aegis of Omo Oduduwa United on Saturday morning stormed the streets of Osogbo, capital of Osun State to agitate for actualisation of Yoruba nation.

    The protesters converged on November 27 bridge in the Africa area, Osogbo for the protest.

    They marched from the November 27 bridge through Ogo-Oluwa, Aregbe junction, Fakunle, Ola-Iya and Odi Olowo areas.

    The protesters carried placards, banners chanting secession songs and distributing handbills to people along the streets.

    They headed to Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Old Garage.

    Meanwhile, there was heavy security presence in major junctions of Osogbo as men of DSS, Police, JTF, Amotekun and other local operatives were on the ground forestall breakdown of law and order.

  • Police bar ‘Yoruba Nation’ rally scheduled for today in Ogun

    Police bar ‘Yoruba Nation’ rally scheduled for today in Ogun

    The Ogun Police Command has warned agitators of Oduduwa nation to shelve their planned mass rally scheduled for today in Abeokuta.

    The spokesman of the command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement, said intelligence report had shown that the organizers of the rally were being sponsored by certain individuals outside the state and the country to destabilize Ogun State.

    He cited similar rallies held at Isara, Sagamu and Ajuwon where the agitators blocked highways and made free-flow of traffic very difficult for other road users.

    He said operatives of the command had exhibited restraint and absolute calm even in the face of extreme provocations by the organizers of the rallies and their cohorts.

    He said the command would not perpetually stand by and watch public conducts of some citizens hold others to the ransom and threaten Nigeria’s corporate existence.

    He said staging another public rally in any part of Ogun could undermine the relative peace being enjoyed in the entire state.

  • Ondo not interested in your ‘Yoruba Nation’ agenda, Akeredolu warns Igboho, others

    Ondo not interested in your ‘Yoruba Nation’ agenda, Akeredolu warns Igboho, others

    Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has warned Sunday Igboho and others agitating for a sovereign Yoruba State to stay away from the state.

    Akeredolu said Ondo people have elected to stay in the Federal Republic of Nigeria as constituted at present.

    He said no part of the entire state, known and delineated as Ondo State, would permit any gathering or agitation which may suggest, however remotely, that the people are in support of what he termed ‘unthinking rabble rousing.’

    Akeredolu who spoke while swearing in Princess Catherine Oladunni Odu as the new Secretary to the State Government and other Special Advisers said the state would not subscribe to banditry and recklessness in putting forth its demands.

    He said the right of citizens to discuss, agitate and even fight to right perceived wrongs, culminating in self-determination, must be done within known and acceptable parameters and all concerned must agree to pursue the same objectives to achieve a desirable or desired end.

    He noted that the reasons for the declaration of hostilities must not be fleeting fancies of disaffection engendered by perceived politics of exclusion for personal benefits.

    Akeredolu who condemned attack on the convoy of the Benue State Governor, Mr. Samuel Ortom, urged security agencies to unmask the agents of darkness bent on throwing the country into a state of anarchy.

  • We want Yoruba nation, not Nigeria —Sunday Igboho

    We want Yoruba nation, not Nigeria —Sunday Igboho

    Yoruba rights activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, better known as Sunday Igboho, has proclaimed his support for the creation of the Yoruba nation.

    Igboho who was captured speaking in a viral video, became popular following an ultimatum he issued to criminal herdsmen in the South-West. He expressed the determination to defend Yoruba land.

    According to him, “Starting from now, we don’t want herdsmen in our land to disturb our farms again. If we meet any killer herdsmen, we are going to face and destroy them.

    “If any police attack us for that, we are ready for them. We don’t want Nigeria again but the Yoruba nation. There is no essence for one Nigeria when the major resources in the country are in the hands of the northerners.

    “Enough is enough. There is no going back… We are not scared of anybody. These killer herders are taking over our land and they are killing our people,” he said.

     

    The activist said his resolve is supported by monarchs and elders in the South-West.

    Igboho also condemned the Federal Government for ignoring the Yoruba ethnic group in terms of appointments in Nigeria.