A group, the Yoruba Self-Determined Movement (YSDM), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to react to a letter written by the group, stating that Yoruba people were set to secede from Nigeria peacefully.

A leader of the group, Banji Ayiloge disclosed this while referring to the letter jointly signed by him, Professor Banji Akintoye, Chief Sunday Igboho and Prof. Adeniran to the President.

According to Ayiloge, the “five million Yoruba who signed the petition to have Yoruba nation is a testimony to their desire to be free from internal colonialism”.

He then called on the government to act on the letter without further delay, The Independent reports.

Ayiloge, who is the vice chairman of the YSDM urged Buhari to read and respond to their demands.

The group had in the letter said that an overwhelming number of Yoruba people want out of the country because of their worsening and painful plight.

“The letter was written to serve notice to Nigeria that the Yoruba Nation is prepared to peacefully exit Nigeria,” Ayiloge said.

He explained that the letter was justified and appropriate under the law as a reaction to questions being asked by the group’s diplomatic team about the reaction of the Nigerian Government to Yoruba demands for a separate nation.

“YSDM was temperate in our letter to the President of Nigeria because we must demonstrate that Yoruba are peace-loving people.

“The Yoruba people can now wait for one more month to await the reaction of the President of Nigeria.

“While in some instances, silence could mean consent, we are prepared to consult our people for the next line of action and the momentum for a separate nation has built up to a crescendo among Yoruba people and there is no going back.

“The Yoruba Self-Determination Movement (YSDM) is an amalgamation of many Yoruba organizations around the world that fully subscribe to the notion of the Yoruba self-determination project.

“Thus, the decision of the next line of action rests with the Yoruba Council which is the highest policy-making organ of the organization. The council will determine the next line of action.

However, the group urged Yoruba people to be law-abiding in the face of constant provocations.

otunja:
Same people that want to vote for Tinibu

Advocate500:
Jokers that called others terrorist for wanting the same thing.

AlexBells:
Just 5 million well Yorubas in Nigeria numbering over 45 million, 5 million is just close to 10%, you need at least 51% to be taken serious...Go get more signatures our darling daddy is busy now with ASUU strike and 2023 election

Sergio104:


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No Oduduwa.....no helection in yollobaland

1. Nigeria is convulsed by internal violence. Yorubas are no longer safe. Nigeria can no longer deliver positive political goods to our people.

2. General Buhari’s tyrannical regime has lost its legitimacy, and by extension, Nigeria has become illegitimate.

3. Nigeria enjoys no stability and predictability. No one is in charge. Our democracy has turned dictatorship. Nothing works in Nigeria. Everything is in disarray.

4. All the ethnic groups are tense, deeply conflicted, dangerous, and contested bitterly by warring factions. There’s unprecedented disharmonies between communities and among states.

5. Nigeria is no longer or willing to perform its fundamental jobs of a nation-state. Nigeria exhibits flawed and failed institutions. Only the institution of the executive functions. If legislatures exist at all, they are rubber stamp machines. The judiciary is an annex of Aso Rock. We can no longer rely on the court system for redress or remedy.

6[i]. Corruption flourishes on an unusually destructive scale. There’s a vacuum of authority. Nigeria is a mere geographical expression.

7. Nigeria is cursed by the discovery of oil. Failure and collapse of Nigeria is man-made. Ethnicity, economics, and ideology all fuelled our decision to leave Nigeria.[/i]

There’s no shortage of groups that want Nigeria to split up. Far from the contrary opinion of the Fulanis, secession is a populist option, it’s not a collection of cranky lonesome idealists.

Nigeria is a phony country built on borrowed convenience. The looming secession will tear Nigeria to pieces. The pandemic, or an economic collapse, is driving the country to sauve qui peut secession – “let him save himself who can.”

Yorubas have no trust in General Buhari’s Nigeria. We don’t feel represented or belong in the Nigeria experiment. The only way to regain our socioecono- mic and political destiny is to leave Nigeria and chart a brand new country that will guarantee our pursuit of happiness, liberty, peace, progress, and prosperity

Under international law, Yorubas are qualified as “people” who have the right to self-determination, the ability to freely determine our political fate and form a representative government. Yoruba en masse really and truly want to secede, so legal arguments would be irrelevant.

The present arrangement, the present General Buhari’s regime are not conducive to our freedom and democracy. We must leave the jungle! If other nations broke up successfully, why would the Fulanis think Nigeria’s case is etched in stone.

Advocate500:
Jokers that called others terrorist for wanting the same thing.

famouscargo4u:


Only terrorists take to arms to air their views.

Abdu81:
Are they all up to five million?

Am4Victory:
Truth is, we are just forcing ourselves to be one when in reality we know too well we are not one. It's better each region becomes a state on her own than staying in a forceful marriage.

But most especially the northerers will not allow that to happen because of selfish interest.

November1857:
Afonja and hypocrisy is inseparable.