Sunday Adeyemo, a youth leader better known as Igboho, says
governors of the south-west have shown their support for the demand of a Yoruba
nation.
Igboho, who had earlier declared that the Yoruba are no more
part of Nigeria, joined supporters on Saturday in Osogbo, Osun state capital,
for a pro-Yoruba nation rally.
While addressing the supporters, he said the governors have
not openly showed their support over fear that the federal government might
stop giving them the monthly allocation.
“I can’t be cowed or intimidated. They said I would be
arrested. Who would dare do that? We are no longer part of Nigeria,” he said.
“We won’t have anything to do with them again. There is no
election again in Yorubaland until we have a Yoruba nation. Those in authority
initially thought we were joking when we demanded an independent Yoruba nation.
“All our governors are with us. From Oyo, Ogun and Ondo to
Ekiti, Lagos and Osun, they are supporting us, but they can’t do it openly.
“Allocation they give them in Abuja may stop if they do it
openly. So, don’t abuse them again. Governor Gboyega Oyetola was informed I
will be in Osun and he allowed us to come here. All our monarchs are with us.
“We are also demanding an immediate end to the prosecution
of OPC men that were arrested in Ibarapa land. That is part of the injustice we
are talking about. They are still locked up.
“They didn’t commit any crime. They only stopped and
arrested criminals.”
Igboho added that they won’t have anything to do with all
heads of security agencies.
Yoruba elders, however, had disown Igboho’s secession bid,
saying they’ve invested so much in the country.
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