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Yoruba leader and President of Ilana Omo Oodua, Professor Banji Akintoye, has said only the pursuit and attainment of self-determination will save the Yoruba from being continually dragged down by Nigeria and ultimately from being destroyed by the persistent onslaught of Fulani herdsmen and militia terrorists.
Professor Akintoye claimed in a statement after a meeting of Ilana Omo Oodua, on Sunday that those lauching the onslaught in Yorubaland and across Nigeria had their promoters and backers in international terrorists like Boko Haram from the Nigerian North East, ISIS from Syria and Iraq, Al Qaeda from Libya and Al Shabaab from Somalia.
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Governor El-Rufai of Kaduna State recently boldly renounced negotiation as a solution to bandits’ criminality. He said negotiating with bandits would never work. He wants them arrested and dealt with squarely. They should be eliminated.
Speaking on a BBC Hausa programme few days ago, Governor El-Rufai declared that those who are trying to negotiate with the bandits are only wasting their time because the criminal herdsmen and bandits who were used to receiving about N100,000 in a year herding cows are now getting millions of naira from kidnapping will never stop. He said the only solution therefore is to get rid o
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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