A Self-acclaimed O’odua Activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Igboho on Saturday vowed that the upcoming 2023 general elections would not hold in the Southwest region of the country.
According to Igboho, the Yorubas have woken up from their slumber and have decided not to act as slaves to the northerners.
He stated that many prominent yoruba individuals have realised that Nigeria has become a failed state and have decided to join the call for secession.
Igboho stated this during a Yoruba Nation Mega rally which held in Osogbo on Saturday.
The New Diplomat had earlier reported that a secessionist group organised a rally, which they said was to sensitise the Yorubas on the need to join their agitations for the establishment of the Yoruba nation.
Although the rally suffered an early blow through the heavy presence of security operatives in Osogbo, however, the determined agitators reconverge at a different location to kick off their rally as scheduled.
Igboho who has championed the call for the secession of the Southwest from Nigeria in recent times also stormed the rally. His presence pulled out massive crowd.
Speaking further at the rally, Igboho called out to the Federal Government; Oyo State Government and Oyo State Police Command to immediately release all members of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) who were arrested over the arrest of a Fulani warlord, Isikilu Wakili in Ibarapa.
He also issued a 7-day ultimatum to Oyo State Government to release the arrested OPC members, adding that if the state government refused to do so there would be a massive protest in the state.
Recall The New Diplomat had reported how the Oyo State Police Command arrested some OPC members over their alleged link to the arrest of Isikilu Wakili.
A joint team of OPC, Ibarapa security operatives, local vigilante, and other groups, had arrested Wakili alleged to be a Fulani bandit, in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State.
But Igboho during the rally in Osogbo, condemned the continued detention of the OPC members.
In his words, “I urge the Oyo, Federal Governments and police to release OPC member who arrested Fulani herdsmen terrorising Yoruba people in Ibarapa land immediately. Before all Yorubas will come out en masse to protest against it.
“They apprehended some Fulanis who were disrupting the peace of Ibarapa and handed them over to the police. But the Oyo State Police and Nigerian Government now arrested them which should not be so.”
Speaking also at the rally, a lecturer of Cultural Studies at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Akin Adejuwon, who is also a convener of the rally, stated that the protest is eye-opening for Yoruba youths to take over and fight for the Yoruba nation.
In his words, “We are here to enlighten and sensitise the youths. The youth are the owners of the Yoruba land. The Fulani enslavers and murderers, must not take our land from us.
“A thousand generation of the Fulani herdsmen cannot overpower the Yoruba youths. We are not one of those who live in the bush. Some animals living in the forest cannot claim our lands.
“We are here to awake the youths’ consciousness to what is right. We are here to educate the youth against voting in 2023.
