By – Adeyinka Shoyemi

The gullible Yoruba Youths see the March 28 Presidential Election as a contest between President Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari while the noble Yoruba youths see the election as a contest between the Ooni of Ife and the Sultan of Sokoto. It is a vote to choose between keeping the traditional values of the Yoruba people or the establishment of the Arabian values of Shari’a across Yorubaland.

This much was obvious when on October 3, 2011 at the Samuel L and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture delivered at the Harvard University by the Sultan of Sokoto on “Islam and Peace-Building in West Africa.” In response to a question, the Sultan made bold to say that “he does not recognize any Nigerian constitution and that the only constitution, he recognize is the Quran”. He was applauded by members of the audience including the current Governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliu.

Yerima Sanni, an ex-governor, held a similar stand as a serving senator of the Federal Republic in an open interview. When interviewed about his peadophiliac marriage to a minor, he said, “I don’t recognize any Nigeria constitution but the Quran”,

Therefore, the Emirs, Sultans, Sheiks, Mullahs have no respect for the constitution of Nigeria, yet do not want Nigeria to divide because they see it as the Estate of their grandfather. They determine who becomes what, what to say and not, say, what religion the states adopt or permit, when to kill or spare non-indigenes, who to bomb or spare, who is worthy of the vote no matter how brain dead, who can vote or not irrespective of what age limit the constitution says.

By all reasonable standard, Nigeria will remain a joke as long as there is no regional autonomy.

The conclusion of the Ooni, Alaafin, Oba of Bini, Olu of Warri, Adeboye, Oyedepo, Oritsajafor, to support Jonathan’s re-election is a clear message to the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano, Shehu of Borno, Lamido of Adamawa, Buhari and all the Gambari that they will never again rule over the Yoruba nation and her people.

Without any fear of being misunderstood, may I say that the Hausa/Fulani from the North, who are predominantly Muslims, do not have regard for many things and not only the constitution of Nigeria. They are hopelessly corrupt and the more reason they have constantly worked against the restructuring of Nigeria during their 50 year reign, which ended with the inauguration of President Jonathan on May 6, 2010.

By – Adeyinka Shoyemi

http://opinionriver.com/gullible-yoruba-youths/