ABUJA – A group known as North East Solidarity Forum condemned the recent secession threat made by some Yoruba groups, describing it as a treasonable felony.

Listing the groups as the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), the Yoruba Unity Forum (YUF), the Oodua Foundation, Afenifere, the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), the Coalition of Yoruba Autonomy (COYA), the Oodua Democratic Coalition (ODC), the Ominira Yoruba Apapo, and the Agbekoya Organization, the Forum said that the statement was an utter reckless, calling president Mohammadu Buhari to call the groups to order.

A communique signed by the Co-Ordinator General of the group, Usman Abdulkadir a meeting accused the Yoruba elders of inciting the general populace and especially the people of the South West region of the country to violence and bloodshed.

The Forum which regretted that such statement could emanate from the groups which he said should have noted the ethnic configurations of the country, stressing that the kidnapping of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation was supposed to be a concern for all to help the president Buhari tackle the incessant case of kidnapping and insecurity at large.

“We have gathered here today to critically examine the recent unguarded and unwarranted vituperations that emanated from the Summit of Yoruba Elders in Ibadan, Oyo State and wish to state unequivocally that the threat to secession in the South West must not be taken lightly nor ignored by the Federal Government. It must be properly investigated by the security agencies and all actors in the summit must be brought to book”, Abdukadir said.

The forum recalled the situation of Boko Haram that has ravaged the North East and the various incidences of kidnapping in parts of Nigeria, asking whether the Yoruba Elders would have threatened to secede if the kidnappers of Chief Olu Falae were an Igbo or from other tribes in Nigeria.

“We believe the threat of secession by the Yoruba Elders has a hidden agenda which must be unravelled urgently by the security agencies because of the weighty nature of their statement and we know that if any region is to make such call, it should have been from the North East due to the ruin the region has witnessed in the last four years”, he said.

Part of the Communique read:, “A call for the breaking of Nigeria by a section of any individual or groups is a treasonable felony and there is no exception to what happened in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

“While we condemn kidnapping or any act of criminality by any indidual in the country and in any part of Nigeria, we want to use this opportunity to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to use all available means to protect the unity, oneness and integrity of this great country Nigeria. Nobody is above the law and no tribe or ethnicity can threaten our corporate existence without being called to account for their misdemeanours. The YCE should not be an exception”. The group said.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/would-yoruba-elders-threatened-to-secede-if-falaes-kidnappers-were-igbo/

They are not really angry because Buhari is the president but have been secretly longing for the disintegration of the country save for sheer cowardice.

Falae's kidnap seems to have given them the opportunity to express themselves.

Yoruba's e don be for una.
go and beg the Hausa's or they will put you were you belong. ( bunch of Hippocrates)

Permission to fall out please....

See mumu talk from mumu idiots..Yorubas were angry?hmmm,didn't we voted for Pmb?whether u like it or not we will soon leave this zoo....welcome to oduduwa rep

the more separated we become.
I wonder if anything can unite us again.

OP,
Stop with the mischief..

You love rabble rousing..

What part of your title is in the main story??

Setting people against people will not make that el dorado appear faster!!!

Sam Amuka's Vanguard is the opposite of the nation so the story is doa.

Honestly this our union Nigeria is becoming a joke everyday

I am happy you used the pre-fix 'some'......

I don't react to communique from anonymous persons, especially if such people aren't only irrelevant, but jobless as well....meanwhile, if there is succession today, unlike some chest beating, scattered tribe, the Yorubas will be in the safest hands .

This is what we did to fulani years back when they attacked Yoruba land.

www.nairaland.com/2055845/buhari-accused-oyo-people-killing

www.theheraldng.com/oyo-state-fulani-community-laments-killing-of-11-herdsmen/

www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/day-lam-adesina-clashed-with-buhari-marwa-others/

We have issued our warning !!!

We are not Igbo chest beaters who have only been able to actualize biafra on radio, internet and newspapers.

Excerpts:

He told our correspondent that a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, had led a combative delegation of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) to meet Adesina in 2000 in his office.

According to him, “Precisely on the 13th of October, 2000, former military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, in company with former Military administrator of Lagos State, General Buba Marwa, had led a heavy team of Arewa Consultative Forum in a combative mood to the office of the governor in protest against the alleged killings of over 69 Fulani cattle herders in Saki Area of the state.

Only the muslims in yorubaland voted for booari. The christains and well meaning yorubas never voted for him.

Kaymercury:
See mumu talk from mumu idiots..Yorubas were angry?hmmm,didn't we voted for Pmb?whether u like it or not we will soon leave this zoo....welcome to oduduwa rep

See them Mallams

IamPatriotic:
I don't react to communique from anonymous persons, especially if such people aren't only irrelevant, but jobless as well....meanwhile, if there is succession today, unlike some chest beating, scattered tribe, the Yorubas will be in the safest hands .

as usual, when a northerner faces you, you look for an igbo man to fight,, Lolz....lawd have mercy!!

meccuno:
as usual, when a northerner faces you, you look for an igbo man to fight,, Lolz....lawd have mercy!!

You may be correct, I don't fight with my brother, I fight for him.

The mallo are rightfully putting the yorubas where they belong as slaves. yorrubers have a debt to pay to posterity and time is running out really fast for them.

Only the intelligent will understand my comment.

Trying to engage the Yoruba will not end well for the North and Nigeria as a whole. Save for ready to die mentality of the Northern 'cows', they know they do not want it with the Yoruba elders and intelligenstia as a whole. The 45 year agitation of the Easterners for Nigeria to disintegrate will be achieved so quickly if the hands of the Yoruba are forced.

IamPatriotic:
I don't react to communique from anonymous persons, especially if such people aren't only irrelevant, but jobless as well....meanwhile, if there is succession today, unlike some chest beating, scattered tribe, the Yorubas will be in the safest hands .

coward....

Go nd challenge ur slave masters

Hehehehehehe

*in obj voice * i just dey laugh

ArodeTsolaye:
The mallo are rightfully putting the yorubas where they belong as slaves. yorrubers have a debt to pay to posterity and time is running out really fast for them.

Only the intelligent will understand my comment.

You're one bitter kid ArodeTWillians.

Every Yoruba situation excites you, why? Still burnt over the 1967 situation and the contnuous Ls you and your ilks have continued to take ever since?

This group must be joking.

ArodeTsolaye:
The mallo are rightfully putting the yorubas where they belong as slaves. yorrubers have a debt to pay to posterity and time is running out really fast for them.

Only the intelligent will understand my comment.

You are a bastard!
ibos are the slaves looking for freedom from Nigeria via Biafra.
Nobody even takes ibo calls for secession any longer.

WETINUSABI:
This is what we did to fulani years back when they attacked Yoruba land.

www.nairaland.com/2055845/buhari-accused-oyo-people-killing

www.theheraldng.com/oyo-state-fulani-community-laments-killing-of-11-herdsmen/

www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/day-lam-adesina-clashed-with-buhari-marwa-others/

We have issued our warning !!!

We are not Igbo chest beaters who have only been able to actualize biafra on radio, internet and newspapers.

Excerpts:

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Blame it on the Igbos

VirginFinder:


You are a bastard!
ibos are the slaves looking for freedom from Nigeria via Biafra.
Nobody even takes ibo calls for secession any longer.

You guys are really stup1d and brainless.

Your agbo-addicted elders are towing the part of secession and you kids are here ranting