The Leader, Yoruba Nation Self-Determination Struggle, Prof
Banji Akintoye, on Thursday, claimed that the All Progressives Congress
presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu’s ambition was for “personal interest”.
He said with his “emilokan” which meant “I am the next
person” statement, it was obvious Tinubu’s mission to become Nigeria’s
president was personal and not for the welfare of the Yoruba people.
Akintoye, who is a Professor of History, disassociated
himself from an interview he granted two years ago where he had endorsed Tinubu
for president, saying the former Lagos State governor was contesting at the
wrong time.
In a statement on Thursday, Akintoye clarified that he is
not endorsing Tinubu and would not vote for the former governor during next
year’s election.
The self-determination group leader also chided other Yoruba
politicians seeking elective offices, saying they were doing so at the expense
of Yoruba people seeking emancipation to achieve the Yoruba Nation.
According to him, I have no personal animosity towards any
Yoruba person seeking election. But I am sorry for you. You are creating a
legacy that your children’s children will be ashamed to know about very soon in
the future of the world.
The statement read, “Our brother, Tinubu, you are fighting
for yourself alone when your whole family is perishing. There is fire on our
roof as a nation. It is unbelievable that any Yoruba man would do to his people
what you are doing to our people now. You have been carrying around a video of
an interview that I granted Alaroye in the campus of Obafemi Awolowo over two
years ago. They asked me that if there was no struggle for self-determination
and you want to recommend a Yoruba person for President of Nigeria, who would I
recommend? And I said yes! If that is so, I would recommend Tinubu, without any
hesitation. But that is if the times are right, the times are not right, you
know, I do not endorse any Yoruba man, Tinubu or any other for any elected
position, any position at all in Nigeria at this time. I stand fully and
without looking back, with the Yoruba struggle for self-determination for our
own country, for Yoruba nation now!
“That’s the truth of the matter. Dear Tinubu, please don’t
deceive yourself. You cannot deceive our people. You think you can carry that
kind of video around and deceive our people, our people are smarter than that.
The world is watching you. Our history will judge that at a time when our
nation needs to stand up and defend itself, you started to bring up an agenda.
A personal agenda of your own before them. You are asking us to vote for you.
We will not vote for you. Whether it is for the Presidency or the Senate or
House of Rep or whatever, we will not vote for you. We would have taken our
country out of Nigeria by then. So, we advise you now to return to your people.
I am advising you now, return to your people and wash your soul clean. You are
doing a thing that is unpardonable.
“Tinubu, you are destroying the Yoruba future. You are
creating a legacy for yourself that your children’s children will be ashamed to
know in the future. We ask you to return. You can still save yourself now and
your future. We are determined to take our country. And I’m standing solidly
with the young people who are running around trying to take their country. Oh!
you might say they are fighting themselves, that’s what young people do
everywhere. That does not mean that they don’t want their country, they want
their country. And the Lord God, the creator of All Nations, has given them
that country, and very soon, the Lord will deliver their country into their
hands. Then it will be their duty to settle down and begin to do for their
people the kind of government that Yoruba people have been giving to their
people from the beginning of time, a government whose objective is the
improvement of the life of the people of our nation.”
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