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Fatal terrorists’ attack on Ondo church:  Declaration of war against Yoruba, says Prof. Akintoye

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The Apex body for Yoruba self-determination and self-preservation movement, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide (IOOW) has described Sunday morning attack on worshippers at St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo State by gunmen as a declaration of war against the Yoruba people.

The leader, Prof. Banji Akintoye, said the effrontery of the Fulanis needed to be frankly and courageously confronted to prove to their sponsors that the Yoruba people can never be intimidated or subjugated.

He, therefore, asked Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to declare an emergency against the activities of Fulani herdsmen in the state with immediate effect.

“The effrontery of the Fulani marauders needs to be frankly and courageously confronted so as to prove to their sponsors that the Yoruba people can never be intimidated or subjugated,” Akintoye said in a statement by the Communications Secretary of IOOW,  Maxwell Adeleye.

The Professor of History said to permanently solve the Fulani Herdsmen’s quagmire, the Yoruba people need to negotiate their exit from the Union of Nigeria without further delay.

“We have stated it very expressly that the Yoruba people need to negotiate their exit from Nigeria as a matter of urgency but our partisan political actors in Yoruba land never took us seriously.

“We warned them that there was a fire on the mountain but we were mocked because of their personal aggrandizement.

“Today, we have all been encircled, most especially, in Lagos. For herdsmen to have the effrontery of bombarding a Church in Yoruba land to kill about 85 people shows that we are now in real danger.

“My urgent advice to Governor Akeredolu is to pick up the gauntlet and declare an emergency against the activities of all Fulani Herdsmen in the state with immediate effect.

“We have now been taken for granted. We need not pretend anymore. We must demand unanimously, an exit from Nigeria.

“We the Yoruba People cannot live in the same country with characters whose idea of common citizenship in Nigeria is to brutalize, subjugate and even exterminate us,” Persecondnews quotes Akintoye as saying.

He added: “It is time to leave these characters now. All Stakeholders – the elite, traditional rulers, and our women should act now.

“All the South-West States, including the Yoruba Leaders in Kogi and Kwara States should equally declare an emergency against the activities of Fulani herdsmen.

“We must now take our destinies into our hands.”

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