AKINWALE ABOLUWADE
The leader of Ilana Omo Oodua World Congress, Prof. Banji Akintoye, hinted on Tuesday that the dream of creating the Oodua nation would be realized latest by the end of the year (December 2022).
Akintoye made the disclosure while addressing the meeting and press conference of the Ilana Omo Oodua World Congress through a telephone call at the Idi Ape, Ibadan World Secretariat of the movement.
Describing the current state of the nation as precarious in the light of the incursion of the country by foreign terrorists, the professor said that the land had become increasingly unsafe.
He stated that secession was the solution to the challenges of insecurity in Nigeria. “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,” he said.
The Interim General Secretary, Ilana Omo Oodua, Chief Kunle Adelakun a.k.a Eruobodo, said, “We, Yoruba people, are ‘progressively naughty by nature.’
“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.”
Noting that Nigeria was designed to fail, he said that self-determination was the way out since the few oligarchs ruling the country refused to heed the call for restructuring.
Earlier, Chief Segun Moses Ogunyemi, said in his address of welcome that dedication to the course of the Yoruba would earn the people unfettered access to liberation.
Among those at the forum are prominent members of the movement like Chief Babatunde Tajudeen, Adigun Makanjuola, Bishop Frederick Oyemade Macaulay, Chief Moses Segun Ogunyemi, Dr Wunmi Babalola Okocha and Ifeoluwa Idunnun a.k.a Iron Lady who came from the Ogun State chapter of the Ilana Omo Odua.
The interim leadership of the movement, led by Prof. Akinyoye, were nominated on the occasion with Mama Tanimowo Ogunsaga emerging as the National Chairman, Homeland for the Ilana Omo Oodua.
