Yoruba Groups Advocate Unity in SouthWest
A coalition of different interests groups in the South-West, Coalition of Yoruba Interest Groups (CYIG) led by Professor Wande Abimbola, has tasked all Yorubas to unite and defend themselves from all ongoing criminal activities unleashed on them in the region by the armed Fulani herdsmen.
Stakeholders in the Yoruba nation, in a meeting attended by participants across the world, declared that it’s high time Yoruba people took their destiny in their hands by forestalling the impending genocide being perpetrated by the Fulanis in the region.
They stated that the purpose of the coalition of all Yoruba groups was to foster unity and speak with one voice.
In his address, the Chairman of the meeting, Prof Wande Abimbola called on Yorubas to come together as a united force and face the criminals destroying their ancestral homeland through insecurity characterised by kidnapping, raping of women and underage girls, wanton killings and other vices.
He lamented the Gen Muhammad Buhari-led government’s pretense not to see the callous ongoing genocide in the South-West and South-East of the country.
The leader of the Yoruba, Professor Banji Akintoye, who gave his support for the coalition, gave vivid historical antecedent of the Fulani and their idea to wipe out the people of the South-West and South-East.
He emphasised that the Fulani did not have land they could call their own in Africa and as such want to destroy other tribes to enable their callous ambition.
In his keynote address, the Global Coordinator of the Oodua Action Movement (OAM), Otunba Demola Edward,declared that a government that could not care for the living was incapable of planning for the unborn, hence the need for the emerging Yoruba nation to be driven by vision conceptualized by men and women who are above average.
He maintained that only those who could operate at higher mental level, with outstanding antecedents to support it, should be at the helm of Yoruba affairs.
He advised the Yoruba nation to resist attempts by ambitious individuals in pursuit of personal self-aggrandizement at the detriment of its citizenry from attaining the pinnacle of our Nation’s power.
He said:”It is our humble opinion that people-oriented visions should be about the common good of those being represented by their elected officers. Suffice to say such ideal is better for the government of the people by the people and for the people.
“Our vision for a better society is for us to ensure that those who cannot separate vision from ambition, and those who are incapable of conceptualizing a vision should not emerge as leaders in Yoruba nation.”
