Yoruba group has reacted to Igangan killings, Ask Residents To Arm Themselves, Accuse FG Of Sponsoring Bandits
A Yoruba Self-Determination Group, Ilana Omo Oodua, led by Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye, called on the people in the South-West zone to use whatever they can lay their hands on to defend themselves and their lands against external aggression.
The group, in a statement signed by Prof Akintoye, acknowledged the courage of Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu, Chairman of South West Governors Forum advising him to put aside constitutional objections to defend his people, saying “Yoruba land has been surrounded, and we must act now”.
According to the statement, “It must now be clear to all Yoruba people of all classes and economic circumstances that war has come in a big way to our homeland. This war has been coming relentlessly for five years, but some of our own people failed to understand the full intent and impact of it.
Some have thought the answer is to do one constitutional or political thing to Nigeria and the war would go away. But we must now all know that such propositions concerning Nigeria are blatantly unrealistic.”
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