22 December 2024
Emeritus Banji-akintoye

Professor Banji Akintoye, Leading Yoruba journey to self-determination

Professor Banji Akintoye, The Alana of Ilana Omo Oodua, and the leader of the Yoruba self-determination movement has congratulated the Yoruba people across the World on the occasion of the unveiling of the 5million signatures aimed at celebrating the foundation of the emergence of the Yoruba Royal Kingdom.

Felicitating with all Yorubas across the World, Professor Banji Akintoye noted that all legal processes have begun with the United Nations already notified of the requested signatures which have been achieved as representing the voice of freedom for the Yorubas in the Western part of Nigeria. With the achievement of the 5-million mark signatures, no other referendum is required and the road to the emergence of the Yoruba Royal Kingdom has been cleared of all potholes or any emerging obstacles.

Professor Akintoye, expressing his joy following the landmark signature achievement on Friday said he could not wait to fly the Yoruba Nation flag, adding that all the procedures for the legal presentation of the Yoruba Nation to the World have begun. He said, telling all Yoruba people across the World that the brighter light has come at the end of a deep black tunnel and that the 5-million mark signatures as attained, have signaled the legal emergence of the Yoruba Royal Kingdom.

“When we started 5million petitions, there were challenges but today we have achieved the landmark and the 5million signature petition appeal is now the legal voice of the Yoruba people all across the World.

Professor Akintoye however told all Yorubas across the World to be wary of a clandestine attempt to stalk the Yoruba nation’s emergence through the Buhari government’s backdoor sponsorship of a referendum using the instrument of office once again to coerce, cajole and intimidate those seeking for self-determination in Nigeria.

He said: ” For the Yorubas, such effort has failed and we are already out and ready to build a virile and productive nation”

he reminded about a so-called Fulani man who went to court to seek a referendum for all the major regions, pretending to represent the deprived people of Nigeria.

“In such a scheme, the government is the accused, the prosecutor, the jury, the judge, and the executioner”

According to him, Yoruba people won’t fall for the tricks, which always use INEC as fate determinants in elections.

“We know the antecedents of INEC as unreliable referees in election conduct. They always fix results and what they would do in the so-called referendum being pushed by a Fulani man is to declare that Yorubas are not ready for self-determination”, Akintoye expressed.

“I greet everyone among us today and I say a big well done to you all’, Akintoye extolled, congratulating Mama Onitiri-Abiola for her drive and determination in ensuring that Yoruba people are salvaged from further Hausa-Fulani enslavement and ethnic cleansing” he continued.

“I salute the courage of our mother, Modupe Onitiri for a job well done in coordinating the 5million signature achievement which is now the voice of our people that we have been freed from Nigeria and have attained the status of a self-determined state,” Akintoye said.

Professor Akintoye commended Chief Modupe Onitiri-Abiola for taking the mantle of freedom drive for the Yorubas and joking about his old intimacy with Chief MKO Abiola whom he claimed always joked about who was the eldest among the two of them,

“MKO fought for the Yorubas in a very special way. The traitors and bastard elements manifested their power but it was only for the manifestation of God’s own power that is supreme” he said.

Earlier, Chief Mrs. Modupe Onitiri-Abiola had congratulated all Yorubas all over the World on the achievement of the 5million signature mark.

Chief Mrs Modupe Onitiri-Abiola

She announced:” We are there now as the 5million signatures have been achieved. God is the one that has done it, He is in it, at it, and above it every second of the time. I came back home from the United States without having a specific mission. I now realize it was God’s own manifestation in my life. Whatever I am doing in this struggle, it is through the manifestation of God He is the driving force of the agitation as he is bigger than all of us as the ruler of the universe, and when he says yes, no one can say no”.

We are making history now as God is the powerhouse because, in the past, so many have exerted their energy on petitions with no result achieved. This is the hour of the Yorubas and we are all joyous He relayed Psalm 126.

Akintoye went through the memory lane about the conversation between Buaratai and Sunday Igboho promising heaven and heart. Igboho put Yorubas first and rejected millions of Naira as promised by the Nigerian government. Igboho has done what many educated professors cannot do, not denying his race in an hour of need.

Yorubas are a great nation and made black with a difference.

We are the first to create urban cities in entire Africa. The white man came and saw us as civilized people living in cities and big towns. Yorubas have been great with developmental drives and settled in big cities even to the surprise of the alien white adventurers.

We are a special people and God is ready to raise our heads up again. Everyone partaking in the struggle is building an everlasting paradise for their own future and the generations to come. I implore all not to blame those not supporting yet.

Our young people want the Yoruba Nation now and not tomorrow.

Our young people want their nation today and without any referendum. Ce

We are not holding any referendum The 5million signatures are now ready and nations of the World are ready to support us in the struggle. The joy has begun and the flag will soon fly

We are all set to build one of the greatest nations in the World.

Nigeria is alan of blood and a decaying phenomenon. We are no longer Nigeria and we are ready to build a country of prosperity and greatme=ness Millions of our children are spread across the World and ready to come back home and build a unique nation.

Our God has made us a unique people from the beginning and is ready to re-establish us. We are a special peop[le and we are ready to exit the swords of those who are killing us

A great thing has happened today and the World must know about it that we are a people ready to build out own nation.

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