Terrorists Have Taken Over Nigeria, Yoruba Nation Will Be Achieved Before December – Akintoye

The leader of the Ilana Omo Odua, a Yoruba self-determination group, Prof. Banji Akintoye has stated that the solution to the challenges of insecurity in Nigeria is the actualization of an independent Yoruba Nation.

This is as he argued that foreign terrorists have taken over many parts of the country and are unleashing mayhem on the citizens.

Professor Akintoye who spoke on Tuesday, added that by God’s grace, Yoruba people will have a nation of their own before the end of December this year.

Naija News reports he stated this at the Congress of the Ilana Omo Odua on Tuesday in Ibadan where he spoke via phone.

He said, “Our nation is in serious danger, there is insecurity in our land. Foreign terrorists brought by the Fulani are all over our land but we shall drive them away.

“By the grace of God, we shall have our country before the end of December. I repeat, we shall have our nation before the end of December by the grace of God.”

1999 Constitution Is Faulty

Speaking at the same event, the Interim General Secretary of the Ilana Omo Oodua group, Chief Kunle Adelakun, popularly known as Eruobodo said restructuring, and self-determination were the way out of the current challenges in Nigeria.

He said the 1999 constitution is part of the problems of Nigeria, arguing that the struggle for the actualization of an independent Yoruba Nation is very important.

In his words, “We, Yoruba people, are ‘progressively naughty by nature’ and we would not allow the Nigerian contraption and the fraudulently imposed 1999 Constitution destroy our God-given intellect, human capital resources and promising future which is at par compared with the developed nations of the world.

“Our great people whom I call compatriots in the struggle and journey to freedom; I want to state clearly to us today that our hope for liberation might be scuttled if you fail in your task and responsibility.

“We must endorse the truth and the yawning of the over 65 million people for a new ‘Republic’ – the Yoruba Nation that would serve as ‘a hub of intellectual innovation and technological development’, which is destined to set a purposeful agenda and model for the rest of Africa.

“Let me say this to all – Nigeria is going nowhere, not because we don’t want it to grow or because we lack the intellectual capacity to make it work, but, it cannot work simply because Nigeria has been hooked to slave masters and the ruling class who are hell-bent to thwart democratic principles to favor their greed, ego and personal interests.”