A traditional ruler in Osun State, Olowu Of Owu-Kuta, Makama
Oyelude has advised Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as
Sunday Igboho, to turn himself in for arrest and drop the agitation for the
Yoruba Nation.
The Department of State Services had declared Adeyemo wanted
and asked him to surrender himself for arrest at any security agency after
raiding his residence in Ibadan and killing two of his supporters.
Fielding questions from journalists on Sunday, Oba Oyelude,
who described rising agitations for secession in Southern Nigeria as “dead on
arrival,” called on Adeyemo to leave his hideout and surrender himself for
arrest before it would be too late.
The paramount Yoruba king of Owu kingdom admonished
secession agitators to dialogue with the Federal Government arguing that “no
one dare face the Federal Government and succeed.”
He said, “I am not part of agitations for secession by
separatists and unpatriotic Nigerians and I can’t be part of it. Even though
Nigerians doesn’t favour all, we shouldn’t secede. Without consultations, you
cannot be talking of secession and that’s why even the Obas are not discussing
it.
“They (agitators) will find it difficult from seceding
because it’s dead on arrival. Federal Government is the father of the nation
and the separatist movement is not a cheap struggle; It is like you are waging
arms against the State. Suffering, hardship and internal bickerings will greet
regions that secede.
“Nobody dare face the Federal might and succeed. I will
advise the agitators to dialogue with the Federal Government. They have had
ample opportunity to do so now when it’s ripe. Sunday Igboho can give himself
voluntarily to the Federal Government rather than they go fishing him out like
Nnamdi Kanu. There is no place for him to hide,” the monarch declared.
Oba Oyelude said he was supporting calls for restructuring,
stressing, “let our Governors look inward and allow Local Government to have
autonomy. Enough of this hire and fire approach. The State Governments have sniffled
the local government area and that’s why I agree with the Attorney General of
the Federation, Malami, on his task to governors to allow autonomy in their
states.”
“I will support a holistic, clearly defined restructuring
rather than secession. Local Government is the bedrock of every intelligence
gathered in the grassroots and if the local government is well organised, then
the problem of insecurity will be solved. If we don’t allow local government to
have autonomy, security situations will continue to persist,” the monarch
disclosed.
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