Be Prepared To Welcome Independence Of Oduduwa Republic Soon, Akintoye Tells Yoruba People
In a statement released on Tuesday by the Media and Communications Secretary of the group, Akintoye said Yoruba people all over the world should be prepared to welcome their freedom in no distant future.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Dec 22, 2020
Professor Banji Akintoye, the Alana of Ilana Omo Oduduwa and a member of the Senate during the Second Republic, has said Yoruba people’s journey to redemption has begun.
In a statement released on Tuesday by the Media and Communications Secretary of the group, Akintoye said Yoruba people all over the world should be prepared to welcome their freedom in no distant future.
By Dapo Akinrefon
FORMER President of the Yoruba World Congress, Professor Banji Akintoye, yesterday, expressed optimism that the Yoruba journey to redemption has commenced saying the race will achieve its dream of an Oduduwa nation without any bloodshed.
Akintoye said the national election of the organisation earlier scheduled to hold during the festive period in Ibadan was postponed due to the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic currently rocking the country.
In a statement by the Secretary, Media, and Communications, Ilana Omo Oduduwa,
Maxwell Adeleye said some technical hitches currently being witnessed on the organisation’s website would be corrected to pave way for more membership registration ahead of the organisation’s Congress scheduled to hold once the war against Covid-19 Pandemic is won in the country.
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A Yoruba leader and a member of the Senate during the Second Republic, Prof Banji Akintoye, has said Yoruba People’s journey to redemption has begun.
Akintoye said this in a statement issued on Tuesday by the Media and Communications Secretary of the group.
Akintoye, elected as Alana of Ilana Omo Oduduwa, formerly known as the Yoruba World Congress, is the worldwide leader of the group with its international secretariat in Lagos, and national secretariat in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
He said, “The Yoruba journey to redemption has started, and soonest, we are going to reach our Cannan land without any bloodshed.”
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