Yoruba Self Determination Movement, YSDM, has suggested President Bola Tinubu and stakeholders within the Nigerian mission to not allow a civil war before permitting the Yoruba nation to separate from the nation.
YSDM made the enchantment whereas addressing a press convention at Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Secretariat, Iyaganku in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital on Wednesday.
YSDM Deputy National Leader, Comrade George Akinola, whereas addressing journalists, suggested Tinubu to not allow Nigeria to disintegrate before permitting Yoruba ethnic group to secede.
Akinola whereas renewing the decision for Yoruba self determination, defined that the Yorubas have had sufficient struggling in Nigeria.
He added that permitting them to face on their very own will put a cease to the issues dealing with the ethnic group.
Akinola faulted the 1999 Constitution, explaining that the group has challenged its credibility in court docket.
Akinola defined that the Yoruba ethnic group is offended and fed up with Nigeria.
He added that their main request from the Nigerian authorities is to allow the Yoruba ethnic group to develop into a sovereign nation.
Akinola acknowledged, “What we would like is a sovereign impartial Yoruba nation. Our sovereignty should be whole. That is what we stand for. The 1999 Constitution doesn’t have any enter from any Yoruba particular person. They mentioned ‘we the individuals of Nigeria’. Who are the individuals? We weren’t carried alongside.
“Many villages have been abandoned because of insecurity. We will arrange a commonwealth Yoruba nation. None of the individuals in Nigeria sat down, the navy simply known as few of them to jot down the Constitution. There are circumstances in court docket that problem the Constitution. We have challenged it within the court docket.
“Tinubu is our brother. If Tinubu succeeds in successful the 2027 election, what occurs after his tenure is over? It doesn’t cease us from pursuing our purpose.
“Since the precept of federalism has been bastardised in Nigeria, it behoves on the ethnic nationalities pressured into the Nigerian mission to make use of no matter instrumentality at their disposal to extricate themselves from the not possible union, combat for his or her id and set up ensures on indigenous rights for such issues of direct relevance to them.
“Yoruba individuals are offended and fed up with Nigeria. What we want most, right now, is to develop into a sovereign nation.”
