Tag: Secession Agitations

2023: Group accuses ‘Yoruba nation’ agitators of planning to truncate 2023 polls

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A group, the Yoruba Appraisal Forum, (YAF), has raised the alarm over alleged plans by those championing and agitating for secession of Yoruba land from the rest of Nigeria to cause violence and chaos in the South-West and other parts of the country with the ultimate objective of truncating the conduct of the 2023 general elections. The YAF National Coordinator, Adesina Animashaun, raised the alarm at a press conference in Lagos yesterday. Citing recent utterances by the leaders of the agitators that the group would achieve the secession of Yoruba…

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Insecurity: “Hold parley with IPOB, Yoruba agitators, bandits” – Int’l Human Rights Commission urges Buhari

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The International Human Rights Commission (IHRC), has urged the Federal Government to hold talks with bandits, the self-styled ‘Yoruba nation’ agitators, and the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in order to restore peace in Nigeria. The Commission expressed alarm over the flight of Nigerian youngsters abroad while blaming the country’s poor economy for kidnapping, banditry, and killings, among other types of insecurity. The IHRC’s Ambassador-at-Large and Head of Diplomatic Missions in Nigeria, Dr. Duru Hezekiah, made these remarks to newsmen in Abuja, on Wednesday, while commemorating the annual International…

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Self-determination Calls: ‘Insecurity, bad governance recipes for agitations’ – Yoruba Diaspora group

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A prominent Yoruba Diaspora group, Yoruba One Voice, (YOV), has said that the agitations for self-determination will continue if the Federal Government didn’t address issues that have been threatening the foundation of Nigeria and also pitting the ethnic nationalities against one another. The YOV made this known at the fifth edition of its global conference held via zoom, where participants gathered from all six continents of the world. The Diaspora group, while proffering solutions to the myriads of problems bedevilling Nigeria, also warned the Federal Government against clamping down on…

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Secessionists Agitation: ‘Yoruba set for peaceful exit’, Yoruba group writes Buhari

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A conglomerate of different Yoruba socio-political groups demanding self-governance in the South-West geo-political zone, the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement (YSDM), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to react to the letter written by the group that the Yoruba was set to secede from Nigeria peacefully. Referring to the letter, which was jointly signed by Professor Banji Akintoye, Banji Ayiloge, Chief Sunday Igboho, and Prof. Adeniran and Ayiloge, who is the vice-chairman of the group urged President Buhari to read and respond to their demands. He said: “The letter was written to serve…

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Self Determination: “Yoruba people are ready to leave Nigeria” – Prof. Akintoye writes Buhari

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Renowned historian and leader of an umbrella body of Yoruba self-determination groups: ‘Ilana Omo Oodua’, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has written to President Muhammadu Buhari notifying him of the intention of the Yoruba ‘nation’ to leave Nigeria. In a letter dated August 6, 2022, Akintoye reportedly told Buhari that the letter was to formally give him “notice of the decision of the overwhelming majority of our Yoruba nation and people to exercise our right to self-determination to have our independent and sovereign country separate from the country of Nigeria”. According to him,…

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“We stand on our call on Igbos to leave Nigeria, if…” — Northern Elders Forum

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The Northern Elders Forum, (NEF), on Friday, said it stands by its old call on the Igbos of the South-East region to be allowed to leave Nigeria if that is what they want. The Convener of the NEF, Professor Ango Abdullahi, said these while reacting to a comment credited to the spokesperson of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr. Alex Ogbonnia, in which he referred to the spokesperson of NEF, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, as a security threat. The NEF also told the Ohanaeze Ndigbo to channel its energy towards contributing to the security…

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“Why I will never support Yoruba nation agitation” – Obasanjo

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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has re-affirmed his loyalty and commitment to a united Nigeria. He said he would never support the agitation for a so-called ‘Yoruba nation’. The Buhari-led administration has been battling with secessionist groups, including the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), led by detained Nnamdi Kanu, as well as the Yoruba nation secessionist group spearheaded by Prof. Banji Akintoye and Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho. According to him, “One thing that we’ve together in common is Nigeria. I have never used the so-called ‘Yoruba nation’, and I…

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Secessionist agitation: Crisis rocks Southern, M\Belt alliance as Akintoye pulls out

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A fresh crisis has rocked secessionist agitators in Southern Nigeria and the Middle-Belt as one of the arrowheads of the self-determination coalition, Prof. Banji Akintoye, resigned as the Chairman of the group known as the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination. Until his resignation, NINAS was the umbrella body of self-determination groups in the South and Middle-Belt regions of Nigeria, with Ilana Omo Oodua representing the Yoruba bloc, Lower Niger Congress, representing the South-East and South-South, and the Middle-Belt Rennaissance Movement representing the Middle-Belt region. Akintoye, in a statement issued…

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Secession: Jega, Clark, canvass restructuring before 2023 polls to avert more agitations

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…‘Let’s have short-term restructuring before polls’ — Prof. Jega Former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, and ex-chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday, again, canvassed urgent restructuring of the country to nip in the bud the spate of secessionist agitations in the country. While Clark noted that what the banned Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), and Yoruba Nation agitators were currently doing in their agitations for self-determination would be child’s play, if Nigeria was not restructured, Jega said the country…

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Secession calls: Iwuanyanwu slams northern elders’ call for South-East exit

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…Says Igbos own greater part of Nigeria Elder statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, has slammed Northern elders on their recent call for a law to hasten the exit of the South-East region from the Nigerian federation. Chief Iwuanyanwu, who is the Chairman of the Elders’ Council of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, made his feelings known in a statement he issued yesterday, through his media aide, Ben Osuagwu, in Owerri, the State capital. He maintained that the resolution of the Northern elders was hostile to the unity, peace and stability of the country and…

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