TENSION In YORUBALAND As Sunday Igboho, Others Agitators Give TINUBU 60 Days Deadline To Do This
The secessionists fight for the emergence of an independent Yoruba Nation are determined to achieve their dream and have given President Bola Tinubu a 60 ultimatum to set-up a panel to negotiate how the Yoruba land will become a sovereign entity. It could be recalled that the agitators were more vocal during the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Popular activist, Sunday laboho and many other
However, while many Nigerians thought that the agitation has died a natural death as a result of government’s attack on Sunday Igboho’s residence in Ibadan in 2021, the separatists are back again, urging Buhari successor, President Tinubu, to approve their demand within the next. two months. According to the report, the Yoruba Nation wrote an open letter to the President, urging him to oversee a meeting between Nigerian government and the Yoruba Nation separatista and to also invite the United Nations, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States to monitor the meeting.
That the Nigerian Federal Government shall, within the next two months, but not later than June 15, 2024, inform us Yoruba Self- determination Movement that the Nigerian Federal Government has graciously agreed to our proposal for negotiation and that they have set up a negotiation team that will meet and have a dialogue with our Yoruba Nation’s negotiation team, the letter signed by Sunday Adeyemo, alias Sunday Igboho and Prof Banji Akintoye read in part.
The agitators said they don’t have confidence in the restructuring of the country as demanded by many Yoruba elders, stressing that the only solution to the Yoruba problems is to formed an independent nation.
Most of us, Yoruba have по confidence in the ‘restructuring that some of our most respected Yoruba leaders (such as our fathers in our highly exalted Afenifere) are advocating, it added. This comes a few days after the members of the separatist group invaded the Oyo State Secretariat that house the Governor’s office and the State House of Assembly complex with sole aim of taking over the government.
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