The leader of Yoruba Nation self-determination struggle, Prof Banji Akintoye, has said he did not authorise a congress of the apex body of Yoruba self-determination struggle, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide being rumoured to take place on November 1, 2022, in Ibadan, Oyo State. Reacting to a statement issued by one Funmi Soyemi, the outgoing Chairman of Ilana Interim Management Committee of the organisation that a world congress of the group would hold at Ibadan, Akintoye said he never authorised such an event.