Yoruba Self Determination Movement, YSDM, has suggested President Bola Tinubu and stakeholders within the Nigerian venture to not allow a civil war before permitting the Yoruba nation to separate from the nation.
YSDM made the attraction 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 going through the ethnic group.
Akinola faulted the 1999 Constitution, explaining that the group has challenged its credibility in courtroom.
Akinola defined that the Yoruba ethnic group is indignant and fed up with Nigeria.
He added that their main request from the Nigerian authorities is to allow the Yoruba ethnic group to change into a sovereign nation.
Akinola said, “What we want is a sovereign independent Yoruba nation. Our sovereignty must be total. That is what we stand for. The 1999 Constitution does not have any input from any Yoruba person. They said ‘we the people of Nigeria’. Who are the people? We were not carried along.
“Many villages have been abandoned because of insecurity. We will arrange a commonwealth Yoruba nation. None of the folks in Nigeria sat down, the army simply referred to as few of them to jot down the Constitution. There are circumstances in courtroom that problem the Constitution. We have challenged it within the courtroom.
“Tinubu is our brother. If Tinubu succeeds in winning the 2027 election, what happens after his tenure is over? It does not stop us from pursuing our goal.
“Since the precept of federalism has been bastardised in Nigeria, it behoves on the ethnic nationalities pressured into the Nigerian venture to make use of no matter instrumentality at their disposal to extricate themselves from the inconceivable union, battle for his or her identification and set up ensures on indigenous rights for such issues of direct relevance to them.
“Yoruba people are angry and fed up with Nigeria. What we desire most, at this time, is to become a sovereign nation.”
