Intimidation, Suppression, Blood Spilling, Coercion, And Harassment Won’t Stop Yoruba Nation Agitation And Emergence, Says Prof Banji Akintoye.
“Let me tell all Yoruba People across the world that there’s no cause for alarm. I didn’t flee anywhere. I am in the Benin Republic running your errands. The struggle is no retreat, no surrender, pa Akintoye reacted from his abode in Benin Republic where he had gone to monitor the case of Sunday Igboho who is currently fighting his being deported to Nigeria illegally since his arrest on his way to Germany.
Profesor Banji Akintoye: No amount of intimidation can stop Yoruba Nation Emergence
Professor Banji Akintoye, leader of the Yoruba self-determination Group, Ilana Omo Oodua, and a leader of Afenifere has debunked speculations that he is on the run and had left Nigeria amidst the current Muhammadu Buhari clamp down on Yoruba Nation agitators.
The learned historian, who has been the central figure in the current Yoruba people clamor for their self-determination Yoruba Nation fought back the speculation saying that he had no reason to leave Nigeria as he had not embarked on any illegal activities clamoring for his people’s self-rule.
The speculation that he had left the country however had created anxiety among Yoruba people craving for freedom, as many agitators are currently under incarceration and on July 1, 2021, the home of Sunday Igboho, a frontline human rights activist who had spearheaded sending war mercenaries away from Southwest bushes was visited and mercilessly destroyed.
Rains of gun bullets from a combined team of Nigeria military, DSS, and hired mercenaries from Francophone countries, and led by voodoo specialists bombarded Igboho’s home in the middle of the night and caused mayhem, killing more than two people and destroying billions worth of properties and personal belongings.
The government effort was to scuttle the agitation and coerce whoever wants to embark on any move for the Yoruba nation’s freedom.
The government action intimidation Yoruba people had been described as an act of bullying, intimidation, subdue, subjugation, and coercion as Yoruba people are currently encamped with war mercenaries laying ambush in Southwest bushes and surrounded by war mercenaries imported by the Buhari regime from Francophone countries.
Yoruba Nation campaigners who were are able to understand the mission of the Buhari government as attempting to cause war and trying to incapacitate Yoruba people from defending themselves are now weary that Buhari and his cronies are embarking on weakening the resolves of the Yorubas and incapacitating the Yoruba people as wars are building up with the support of some Europeans nations supporting the Buhari government.
Professor Banji Akintoye, however, reacting to reports of his escaping from the country however debunked speculations that he had left the country as millions of Yorubas across the World fears for his life in the wake of the current clampdown by the Buhari regime.
“Let me tell all Yoruba People across the world that there’s no cause for alarm. I didn’t flee anywhere. I am in the Benin Republic running your errands. The struggle is no retreat, no surrender, pa Akintoye reacted from his abode in the Benin Republic where he had gone to monitor the case of Sunday Igboho who is currently fighting his being deported to Nigeria illegally since his arrest on his way to Germany.
“Irrespective of what the Nigerian Government may be planning against me, I want to say without any fear or intimidation that I will be returning to Nigeria immediately Ighoho is released from custody”, Akintoye said, adding: ”I am in the Republic of Benin in Solidarity with Sunday Ighoho, Not on the Run” –
He promised to return to Nigeria Immediately after Ighoho is Released from the Republic of Benin Custody. In a statement made available to News Men on Sunday, from Ilana Omo Oodua Secretariat, the Emeritus Professor of History said he is in the Francophone country to coordinate and supervise how to legally rescue the detained Yoruba Nation Activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka SundayIghoho), from government remand as soon as possible.
Akintoye, a member of the Nigerian Senate in the Second Republic, said just like Ighoho, he has committed no offense against the Nigerian Laws to warrant being arrested, intimidated, or harassed. Like a valiant soldier, Akintoye vowed to return to Nigeria as soon as Ighoho is released by the government of Benin Republic to continue the struggle for the actualization of Yoruba Nation, saying “it is No Retreat, No Surrender”
“Myself, the President-General and Professor Wale Adeniran (Chairman) of Ilana Omo Oodua are currently in the Republic of Benin as reported, but not on the run.
“We are here to supervise and coordinate, by all legal and other means, the struggle for the release of our son and patriot, Sunday Adeyemo Igboho, detained by the Government from custody.
“By demanding peaceful self-determination for the Yoruba Nation, I am not breaking any law, since self-determination is recognized by the International and Nigerian laws to be an inalienable right of every Nationality, large or small, in the world.
“I have earned a solid reputation as a highly respected advocate of a peaceful self-determination struggle. I have even written a book on the subject which is already being used as a manual by Yoruba self-determination advocates and organizations.
“Irrespective of what the Nigerian Government may be planning against me, I want to say without any fear or intimidation that I will be returning to Nigeria immediately Ighoho is released from custody.
