A South West group, Yoruba Liberation Command, YOLICOM, has faulted those calling for the restructuring of Nigeria.
YOLICOM said rather than yield to the call for restructuring, the
Federal Government should declare Biafra and Oduduwa independent
nations.
Speaking in Lagos, spokesperson of the group, Opeoluwa Akinola, said
it was time for the Yoruba nation to exit Nigeria which is “dominated by
the Fulani north.”
Akinola maintained that Nigeria will never be genuinely restructured by the present crop of political leaders.
The group also said it is in support of Nnamdi Kanu’s pursuit for restoration of Biafra.
According to Akinola, “We totally reject the idea of restructuring as
proposed. It is an attempt to restructure Nigeria on their own terms
and not on the terms of the people. Nigeria will never be genuinely
restructured by the present crop of political leaders who are themselves
beneficiaries of the same skewed system.
“Even if the country will be restructured, it will pass through the
National Assembly, which was created during the era of military rule of
the Fulani to ensure an upper hand for the Fulani North. The National
Assembly is an organ of the Fulani and their agents, so also is the
Nigerian military, which has continuously been used to repress,
intimidate and humiliate Nigerians.
“You will agree with me that the self-determination groups in Nigeria
are the engine of our history today. We have the largest population
with which all the members of the main political parties in Yorubaland
combined together cannot equal. Our members are not in these movements
for personal gains like we have in the political parties. Our members
are in these organisations to make sacrifices and if necessary lay down
their lives for the Yoruba nation.
“For the past three months, we have been consulting with all the
Yoruba self-determination groups, meeting poor and malnourished Yoruba
people, talking to our people in the villages, towns and on the hills
and mountains in the rural communities of Yoruba nation.
“In the light of the foregoing, and in response to the occurrences in
Nigeria of the past few months, including but not limited to the
releases, utterances and comments certain groups representing the Igbo
nation in Nigeria, IPOB (The Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB)
Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra,
(MASSOB) among others to the effect that they desire to leave Nigeria
and cease to be called Nigerians; and certain groups representing the
(AREWA) people of Northern Nigeria, to the effect that the Igbo people
should vacate the territory of Northern Nigeria before October 1st,
2017.
“That we support the aspirations of the Igbo Nation irrespective of
the unfortunate hate speeches, infantile savage utterances of a certain
Nnamdi Kanu, who appears to have singled out Yoruba Nation for ridicule
and revulsion. We take solace in the fact that we work with many
large-hearted, better-exposed, principled and consciousness Igbo leaders
who have a richer sense of history and understands better the complex
nature of nation building and who also realize that importance of
alliances, networking in statesmanship and international friendship and
solidarity. We look forward to a viable and mutual relationship to the
future Igbo nation, based on cordial respect within the framework of
international best practices.
“We as a people want Oduduwa Republic. We have no apology for this.
That the Yoruba people wish to see an end to the over 100 years of
bitter acrimony, ethnic rivalry, savage killings, blackmail of the
Yoruba nation by some recalcitrant ethnic groups, herdsmen killings,
forcing millions of our people to stop going to farms and the
excruciating burden of coming from a country with the stigma of
terrorism.
“That our people have endured for a century the misery of Nigeria,
her destruction of our values and the inestimable cultural genocide
inflicted on our heritage by the rogue Nigerian country. It is time for
the Yoruba Nation to exit from this axis of evil. That we totally reject
the idea of RESTRUCTURING as proposed by the Nigerian state and the
political elite. It is an attempt to restructure Nigeria on their own
terms and not on the terms of the people. Nigeria will never be
genuinely restructured by the present crop of political leaders who are
themselves beneficiaries of the same skewed system.”
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