Quitnotice: We want Oodua Republic –Yoruba groups

Some Pan Yoruba groups, under the aegis of O’odua Nationalist Coalition, (ONAC) have declared their support for self-determination and called on the people of South West to be ready for an Oodua Republic.

The group was responding to the quit notice order to Ndigbo living in the North by groups of northern youths which was supported by the spokesperson of the Northern Elders Forum, Ango Abdullahi.

In a statement issued by the Yoruba groups and signed by Oluwole Suleimann, Michael Popoola, and Mrs. Aduke Fadahunsi, at the weekend, the group lambasted the North for their aggressiveness and said it was high time they moved on with Oodua Republic.

Part of the statement read, “This conflict has again reared its head, 50 years after a civil war that inflicted pain and misery on the Yoruba people apart from distorting the development plan of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo for the South West.

“We advise them to begin to make alternative plans for the inevitable upheaval being promoted by the Fulani oligarchy. The North has always been the aggressor because of the region’s loss of power and the unhidden desire to make Nigeria the irreversible extension of the Fulani emirate.

“What we see is violent conflict of civilisations which can only be resolved when each region go her own way. In the bid to keep Nigeria as one country, millions of people have been killed and the lives of children wasted, the future pauperized and the potentials of Yoruba young men and women bottled or chained with fetters of iron.

“Today, we make the historic declaration that Yoruba people are ready for our own Oduduwa Republic. We have watched events these past days. The cloud is getting thicker. The poisonous rain appear ready to fall. It is time for the Yoruba people to be ready to defend our homeland from being seized by local imperial elements and their collaborators. We assert Yoruba self-determination and sovereignty. We shall work for it. We will actualize it.

“Our leaders beginning from Chief Obafemi Awolowo were jailed on trumped up charges. 28 leaders of Yoruba were imprisoned unjustly. Chief M.K.O Abiola was murdered. The industrial bases built by Awolowo were destroyed by the military rookies appointed to control the South West region, our culture destroyed and the future of our young people put asunder. Today, many Yoruba people have become scavengers across the world fleeing from a hostile, bloodletting and malicious country that hold no promise of good and abundant life for the long suffering and exhausted population. The group stated further

“We call on Yoruba people all over the world to prepare for a sovereign nation for the people of the South West. We are over 50 million and far more than the population of 140 countries in the world. Yoruba will be the third biggest nation in Africa and about the 28th biggest nation in the world. We are big and knowledgeable enough to be a sovereign nation. We assert the Yoruba self-determination without any further delay.”

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ONAC said following the position of Northern youths for Igbo to quit the North, the demand for Arewa sovereignty by the Northern Elders Forum, (NEF), the legitimate demand for Biafra by Igbo and the call for a Niger-Delta Republic; “It is time for the Yoruba people to stand for Oodua Republic without any further delay.

“Yoruba people this time will not support any attack on Self determination. We shall mobilise the masses and prevent Yoruba people from being used for any attack on the long suffering indigenous peoples of the South East and the South- South”

According to ONAC, the quit notice issued by the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, (AYCF) is not targeted at Igbos alone but Yoruba also, because southerners resident in the North, will all be classified as Igbos.

ONAC is made up of 18 Pan Yoruba groups including the Oodua Peoples Congress, (OPC), Oodua Liberation Movement, (OLM), Oodua Republic Coalition, (ORC), Yoruba Revolutionary Congress, (YORC), Oodua Muslim-Christian Dialogue Group , (OMDG), Yoruba Students Nationalist Front, (YOSNF), Oodua Hunters Union, (OHUN) and 11 other groups.

 

 

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