From Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan
There was a standstill in Ibadan metropolis in Oyo State yesterday as more than one hundred self-determination groups stormed the city and staged a peaceful rally for the creation of Oduduwa Republic from the current Nigeria.
Participants in the rally converged on the frontage of the popular Mapo Hall, Ibadan, sang, spoke and distributed fliers on the proposed Yoruba nation.
Heavy presence of the personnel of various security agencies, including the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Force, Department of State Security, and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, was observed around Mapo Hall. But they did not stop the participants under the coordination of Ilana Omo Oodua, presided over Senator Banji Akintoye, an emeritus professor of History.
Also yesterday, the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) declared a 120-day period of consultations with the people of the three alliance territories for various segments of the Nigerian society as well as the diplomatic and international communities towards achieving self-determination for the blocs.
Chairman of NINAS, Prof Banji Akintoye, made the declaration at a press conference which the group addressed at the expiration of the 30-day period of consultations with elected officials from the alliance territories, following expiration of a 90-day period of notice of Grave Constitutional Grievances issued the Federal Government by NINAS on December 16, 2020.
Akintoye, whose address was read by the Chairperson of the Steering Committee of NINAS, Otunba Sade Olukoya, explained that NINAS is a self-determination movement birthed as Alliance of the Self-Determination Initiatives across the three alliance territory blocs of the Lower Niger, the Middle-Belt and Yorubaland. He added that the group has a mandate to dismantle the purported ‘fraudulent 1999 Constitution’ and end the ‘unworkable’ unitary union that the constitution foists and to champion the processes for self-determination by which sovereignty would be restored to the constituent regions of the alliance.
At the rally, some of the policemen at the Mapo Hall told Sunday Sun that they were sent to the venue to ensure that there was no breakdown of law and order, affirming that they were not sent to arrest anybody. The rally, however, led to a traffic logjam in different parts of Ibadan, such as Mapo, Oja’ba, Idi-Arere, Beere, Labiran, Isale-Alfa, Ita-Merin and so on.
The participants unanimously demanded the creation of Yoruba nation. They decried the spate of killings, maiming, kidnapping and other social vices going on unchecked in Yorubaland, stressing that the people of the region could no longer tolerate the level of injustice.
Some leaders of the group who spoke at the rally said the movement remained unstoppable, adding that the agitation for the creation of Yoruba nation is on course and is achievable.
The participants, however, staged a walk from Mapo Hall to the international headquarters of Ilana Omo Oodua at New Bodija, Ibadan. One of the placards carried on the occasion read: ‘Constitutional Force Majure, Activate it Now.’
The Secretary, Youth Initiative, Ilana Omo Oodua, Dr. Akin Adejuwon; Chairman, Itsekiri Forum in Edo State, Omagbalowaje Ajatiton; Secretary, Itsekiri National Youth Council, Warri South, Ajemijeroma Mene-Ejegi; Secretary, Ilana Omo Oodua, George Akinola; and Homeland Secretary, Ilana Omo Oodua, Kunle Adesokan, were among people that participated in the rally.
Speaking on the occasion, the Secretary, Ilana Omo Oodua, George Akinola, said: “We are not fighting. We are only staging peaceful rally to ask for our right. We will stage the rally across the Yorubaland. Our right that we are asking for is Yoruba nation, the Oduduwa Republic. No retreat, no surrender.”
In the same vein, Homeland Secretary, Ilana Omo Oodua, Kunle Adesokan, said the time had come for Oduduwa Republic to come into existence.
The Secretary, Youth Initiative of Ilana Omo Oodua, Dr. Akin Adejuwon, former Director General of National Troupe of Nigeria, said about 168 self-determination groups have registered under the Ilana Omo Oodua, with mandate to coordinate them based on the like minds. He explained that the rally was not the programme of Ilana Omo Oodua alone, but of all the 168 self-determination groups, adding that Prof Akintoye stands for a critical fact, which is self-determination.
Chairman, Itsekiri Forum in Edo State, Omagbalowaje Ajatiton, said: “We are living as slaves on our land. We are no longer going to tolerate that. So, we believe in Oduduwa Republic. Itsekiri people have their root in Yorubaland. So, we need freedom. We are going with the self-determination for Yoruba nation.”
Secretary, Itsekiri National Youth Council, Warri South, Ajemijeroma Mene-Ejegi, also noted: “As the second largest producer of oil in Nigeria, what is our gain? So, we are supporting Oduduwa Republic.”
If late Rasta Prophet Bob Marley in His EXODUS Says ” WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING AND WE KNOW WHERE ARE WE COMING FROM”. The wisdom and philosophy in its message made Late Bob Marley accepted as prophet in the Rastafarian movement. Therefore it is obvious that these agitators for Oduduwa Republic in difference groups Failed to reflected from where they are going nor reflected from where they are coming from which undoubtedly made them not to opened their mind to vividly realized the historical factors that over 60years of Independence from colonial master, many years of military regime and over 20years of democracy in Nigeria while its characteristics and the legacies of past president/head of States were key factors that made it difficult to succeed on any agitation in any names because these Past Nigerian former leaders sacrificial and patriotic legacies in keeping Nigeria as One will continually hunting all efforts of agitation for republic in any names moreover the 8years of Gen. I.B.B Alone remained an era that keep defending the National Unity and integrities of Nigeria which all efforts of agitation can not withstand because The geographical and political location of ABUJA Alone Confirmed the fact that Gen. I.B.B laid a solid foundation of one Nigeria at the same time ensured that Nigeria was built on a rock so a house built on rock will by difficult for any storms of agitation or winds of disintegration to destroyed of which these legacies gave Gen. I.B.B a LIVING LEGEND YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER and a title as an EMPEROR OF UNITED NIGERIA while all Nigerians past president/heads of States are Heroes of an unquestionable integrities in theses regards although they never claimed they are saints. Many of these groups agitating for Oduduwa Republic does not really know where they are coming from while 85% of them failed to visualize that over sixty’s years of an independence was not a journey of jokes therefore sixty years of togetherness as a country remained a legacies itself.
The majority of Yoruba people which firmly stand for Oduduwa Republic of south west within Disintegrated Republics of this territory natives, know they’re coming from bondage under fulani caliphate called Nigeria, they know they’re going for existence securities and freedom as liberated people under Oduduwa Republic of south west within Disintegrated Republics of this territory natives.
Zik, Ironsi, Gowon, Obasanjo, Babandiga, Abacha, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Jonathan, Osinbajo had opportunities to lead liberation of this territory natives from the bondage of fulani caliphate called Nigeria, they failed, got trapped in prison of defeated fulani caliphate called Nigeria- dead or alive.
We this territory natives who owns the land and are more than 99% population of this territory have liberated from the bondage of fulani caliphate called Nigeria in which the six geopolitical zones are sovereign states- Biafra Republic of south east, Niger Delta Republic of south south, Oduduwa Republic of south west, North East Republic, North West Republic, Middle Belt Republic. Hausa people, Kanuris etc. of the north will be traditional rulers, religious leaders, political office holders etc. over their God given native lands under their sovereign states. Southern natives will have democratic capacity under their sovereign states to fix their lands, economies.
The way defeated British bandits find their way back to Britain in 1960, so also must defeated fulani criminals find their way back to Guinea- dead or alive in this 2021. Only the Sword decides.
Our liberation as this territory natives from the bondage of fulani caliphate called Nigeria can never be peaceful, it is only with the Sword. If a people want to establish a sovereign state, they must have military for defense, they must have police etc. for internal securities, they must eliminate the enemies within territorial borders of their sovereign state.
We this territory natives who owns the land and are more than 99% population of this territory have liberated from the bondage of fulani caliphate called Nigeria in which the six geopolitical zones are sovereign states- Biafra Republic of south east, Niger Delta Republic of south south, Oduduwa Republic of south west, North East Republic, North West Republic, Middle Belt Republic. Hausa people, Kanuris etc. of the north will be traditional rulers, religious leaders, political office holders etc. over their God given native lands under their sovereign states. Southern natives will have democratic capacity under their sovereign states to fix their lands, economies.
Natives of the six geopolitical zones must establish interim governments now under their sovereign states with military, police etc. to defend territorial borders of their sovereign states, fix their lands, economies. Every community, town, city of this territory natives under interim governments of their sovereign states, must be fully armed now to defend territorial borders of their sovereign states for existence securities and freedom under their sovereign states.
The way defeated British bandits find their way back to Britain in 1960, so also must defeated fulani criminals find their way back to Guinea- dead or alive in this 2021. Only the Sword decides.
Could Mr.The Noon also justify why his hero, Mallam IBB chose to
unilaterally declare our Kwa/Bantu fatherland an Islamic Republic?
IBB even called his above silly divisive act of registering our dear
fatherland with the Ogarnization of Islamic Countries (OIC) a fait accompli.
At this juncture,I personally believe that the ultima ratio left for us Nigerians
is the option of our late unsung Hero, Major Gideon Orkar.
It about time that we Indigenous Nigerians did rid ourselves permanently of those barbaric,bellicose and murderous Nilotic Troglodytes,the so called Fulanis.
No to the staus quo ante bellum!
Down with Hausa/Fulani Islmic Hegemony!!