Yoruba people across the world have been urged to
prepare themselves for a sovereign nation of the people of
the South West. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Eso
Oodua urges all Yoruba people to begin the process to
actualise a new nation form the people, stretching from
Lagos, through Jebba, Lokoja to Warri”.
The group said that “Yoruba people are bitter,
disenchanted, angry, hungry and desperate for a
revolutionary change in a filthy land where only the cruel,
the mischievous and the dishonest can easily survive.”
Said the group “Our position is emboldened by what is
going on in Nigeria, the killings, joblessness, the massive
migration of hostile and armed people into the South West,
the collapse of values, the disintegration of public trust, the
leadership ruin, and the floundering fortunes of the people
in the hands of self-serving, greedy, malicious and self-
destructive elite.”
A statement signed by the group’s spokesperson, Dr.
Akinrogun Ahmed Akindola urged Yoruba people at home
and abroad to prepare for the “inevitable battle of freedom
leading to the official founding of Oodua Republic which
begins from Lagos, through Jebba, Yagba, Lokoja, Okun and
Itsekiri territories in Delta State.” The statement was made
available to Irohinoodua through email. The group said
other parts of the country have been compelled to resort to
“arms uprising, bombing, kidnapping and even suicide”
saying that what has sustained a fragile peace in Yoruba
land is nothing but the civilisation of the people which he
said is no longer able to stand in the face of “public and
state terror” imposed on the people.
Dr. Akindola said, “Nigeria to Yoruba people means death,
poverty, backwardness, retrogression and repression of our
rich potentials”. He said the Yoruba political class have
failed to allay the fears and aspirations of the people
adding that only a sovereign state of the Yoruba people will
resolve the chain of hurdles that stand on the path of
sustainable development in Yoruba land.
He said the lukewarm attitudes to previous elections by
Yoruba people in their territories represent a vote of no
confidence in the entire Nigerian political system and all
that pertains to it. “Our position is borne out of historical
facts and the traumatic experiences of the Yoruba people
since 1914 when Nigeria was created by martial fiat. Our
campaign for Yoruba Nation has therefore become
irreversible. It is a reflection of the reality that many of our
people have given up hope on Nigeria”.
The group said the 50 million people Yoruba Nation is
bigger than 52 countries in Europe and 82 member
countries in the United Nations and it will be the third
largest country in Africa after Ethiopia and Egypt apart from
being the single biggest homogenous black nation in sub-
Sahara Africa’.
He informed that the Blueprint for the economic and social
rejuvenation of Yoruba Nation has been put in place and
would be put before the people and chosen credible
leadership “as soon as we have our own country of OòdúÃ
Republic”.
Dr. Akindola elaborated that in the last ten years, the
members of the group have asked and answered questions
about the future politics, economy, social engineering,
culture, traditions, religion, philosophy, language of the
New Oòdúà Republic. We are ready.”
“It is time to free the people of Yoruba land from poverty of
leadership, celebration of mediocrity and excusing of
criminal acts in the name of politics. Our people are tired of
the miseries of Nigeria and all that pertains to it, and want
to be in control of their own destiny”, he explained, adding,
“The road to ending violence, poverty, death, anguish and
pain in our territories is to assert our rights to self
determination”.
The group stated ‘Our resolve is cast in iron. We serve this
notice to the world to be aware. After more than a century
of traumatic experience in Nigeria, it makes a lot of sense
to try something new. Our culture, language, values,
economic and political potentials remain in bondage as
long as we remain in Nigeria, a country that has brought
Yoruba people nothing but shame and ignominy.”
The group accused Yoruba politicians of being ‘selfish,
parochial, corrupt, naive and lacking integrity and
completely any sense of history. They have sold the
heritage of the Yoruba people. They are in power for
personal gains. It is now time for the masses of the Yoruba
people to fulfill the historical responsibility of pushing the
“arijenimodarus” and the “Judases” amongst us, off the
track for the Yoruba people to be able to reclaim her lost
heritage and bring back the floundering fortunes of a once
glorious people and highly endowed land.
The group said it will work with similar groups in Nigeria
that are prepared to take the bull by the horn and loose the
“fetters of iron of subjugation and misery”.
Dr. Akindola “urged millions of Yoruba people at home and
abroad to see this as a clarion call for freedom and the
whistle for liberty out of the valley of blood and sorrow that
has been the lot of Nigeria.
“We want to advise our fellow Yoruba people living outside
of Yoruba land to consider returning to motherland, as we
will not be able to guarantee their safety should the
enslaving maggots at the helms of power decide to resort to
violence against our people, instead of coming to the table
and discuss the peaceful dissolution of the contraption of
the British amalgamation exercise that has robbed the
Yoruba people of her development and progress.”
“We want the world to note that we are not a violent group.
We are peace loving people who are determined and
uncompromising about our desire for self determination
and the birth of a new Oòdúà Republic. But we are ready to
shed blood if need be, to defend our land and our people
against possible acts of violence against us by the Nigerian
state and its agents.”
We call on the United States of American Congress, the
progressive Canadian government, the United Nations, the
European Union, the Jimmy Carter Center, the British
Parliament, all the freedom fighters in the world and well
wishers of the New Oòdúà Republic to join hands with us to
free our Yoruba nation and its people from over a century
of perpetration of atrocities and subjugation by the
Nigerian state.
We are determined to ensure that a peaceful negotiation is
promoted between our group and other groups within
Nigeria that have decided to pursue their self autonomy.
This way a colossal calamity will be averted, if the corrupt
and enslaving stakeholders of the Nigerian State would be
reasonable, something we are not counting upon or we are
expecting.
At this point, for the total freedom of our people and the
realization of the New Oodua Republic, we are ready to
water the tree of liberty with the blood of traitors and those
who are determined to hold down our people in bondage.
We are not going to give up until the realization of our own
autonomous and independent Oòdúà Republic. We are
prepared to die on our feet rather than live on our knees.
“We also want to sound a note of warning to all internal
enemies in Yoruba land, all agents of the Nigerian state in
our midst and the Nigerian state itself to beware. We will
not condone acts of treason or aggression in any form
against Yoruba Nation and people as well as our foot
soldiers of freedom, liberation and total independence. The
silent but active and ready majority is watching,” Dr.
Akindola advised.
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