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Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by femeritus: 3:50pm On May 10, 2020
By Dare Adekanmbi
Nigerian Tribune, May 10, 2020

Concerns over the risk of Nigeria breaking up with some ethnic nationalities pulling out of the union appear to have been heightened with the admission of the Yoruba and Igbo nations into the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO).

UNPO, an international organisation established in 1991 and headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, assists ethnic nationalities that are repressed in the countries they are part of and helps them make a case for independence before the United Nations (UN).

The body, last month, admitted the Yoruba and Biafra nations as its 45th and 46th members respectively, a development that has been greeted with mixed feelings in Nigeria.

Speaking exclusively to Sunday Tribune on the implications of the decision, leader of the Yoruba World Congress (YWC) and renowned historian, Professor Banji Akintoye, warned that the break-up of Nigeria is imminent if the leaders failed to restructure the country properly to address concerns of all nations that make up the country.

According to the leader of the Yoruba World Congress, the Yoruba nation can now hoist its own flag within Nigeria, having been offered international protection against its repression within the country.

“Our admission into UNPO goes so far. For instance, we live in a country where our progress has been impeded continuously since 1962. We can now really resist, find an answer to that and not continue to be part of Nigeria’s retrogression and decline.

“And ultimately, when the time does come, our people…can say they want to hold a referendum to determine what they really want. Some countries that were members of the UNPO have achieved their independence and become members of the UN through the help of UNPO,” he said,

On his part, the founder of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, also in an exclusive interview with Sunday Tribune, said it was just a matter of time before Biafra would gain sovereignty as an independent country and a member-state of the UN.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/yoruba-biafra-unpo-membership-risk-of-nigeria-breaking-up-now-higher/
Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by lordlugards: 3:52pm On May 10, 2020
Are you seriously serious?
Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by AstralBody: 4:22pm On May 10, 2020
Only a SE/SW idiot, will say he or she loves the way Nigeria is. There is nothing,as sweet as freedom!

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Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by Racoon(m): 4:35pm On May 10, 2020
“Since 1914 the British Government has been trying to make Nigeria into one country, but the Nigerian people themselves are historically different in their backgrounds, in their religious beliefs and customs and do not show themselves any signs of willingness to unite … Nigerian unity is only a British invention” –Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, 1948.

“Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense as there are ‘English,’ ‘Welsh,’ or ‘French,’ The word ‘Nigeria’ is a mere distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not” -Chief Obafemi Awolowo, 1947.

“It is better for us and many admirers abroad that we should disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. Should the politicians fail to heed the warning, then I will venture the prediction that the experience of the Democratic Republic of Congo will be a child’s play if it ever comes to our turn to play such a tragic role”
-Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1964.

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Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by skywalker240(m): 5:16pm On May 10, 2020
A great news
Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by hammerP: 5:29pm On May 10, 2020
SO YORUBA CANNOT STAY WITH HAUSAFULANI AND TAKE TURNS ON PRESIDENCY WITH THEM.



WE IGBOS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN FORMING A NATION WITH YORUBA.



THAT CAN NEVER BE.


IF THAT IS THE ONLY OPTION, WE PREFER TO REMAIN WITH HAUSA AND FULANI, BECAUSE ALL THE PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY IS CAUSED BY YORUBA.

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Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by aremuforlife(m): 5:36pm On May 10, 2020
Who told Yoruba is ready to form a nation with Igbos. Yoruba is a nation within a nation , we have a region with the same mindset

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Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by Nobody: 5:43pm On May 10, 2020
hammerP:
SO YORUBA CANNOT STAY WITH HAUSAFULANI AND TAKES TURNS ON PRESIDENCY WITH THEM.



WE IGBOS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN FORMING A NATION WITH YORUBA.



THAT CAN NEVER BE.


IF THAT IS THE ONLY OPTION, WE PREFER TO REMAIN WITH HAUSA AND FULANI, BECAUSE ALL THE PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY IS CAUSED BY YORUBA.
Such a pity you don't even know what a nation is. You criticize illogically, Yoruba is a nation, stop being myopic

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Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by iyapont: 6:16pm On May 10, 2020
hammerP:
SO YORUBA CANNOT STAY WITH HAUSAFULANI AND TAKE TURNS ON PRESIDENCY WITH THEM.



WE IGBOS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN FORMING A NATION WITH YORUBA.



THAT CAN NEVER BE.


IF THAT IS THE ONLY OPTION, WE PREFER TO REMAIN WITH HAUSA AND FULANI, BECAUSE ALL THE PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY IS CAUSED BY YORUBA.
lol cry cry baby sorry ooo � take your time and read slowly cry cry baby

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Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by Nobody: 10:30pm On May 10, 2020
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Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by WeneDiali: 10:36pm On May 10, 2020
Leave the yoruba out. They are just noisemakers, they can't move an inch out of nigeria. It's suicide for them.

They are not republican enough to have self belief. Their placenta is tied to nigeria forever, there is nothing they can do about it.
Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by SouthNigerian: 10:42pm On May 10, 2020
I only pity the North.
Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by knowledgeable: 10:48pm On May 10, 2020
WeneDiali:
Leave the yoruba out. They are just noisemakers, they can't move an inch out of nigeria. It's suicide for them.

They are not republican enough to have self belief. Their placenta is tied to nigeria forever, there is nothing they can do about it.

To me oo, Yorubas + Igbos with a more progressive and Republican Constitution will create an African super power.

US dropped atomic bomb on Japan, today, US and Japan are one economically. Toyotas, Nissans, and Hondas are every where in US.
Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by WeneDiali: 10:55pm On May 10, 2020
knowledgeable:


To me oo, Yorubas + Igbos with a more progressive and Republican Constitution will create an African super power.

US dropped atomic bomb on Japan, today, US and Japan are one economically. Toyotas, Nissans, and Hondas are every where in US.

Yoruba will insert a stab a hot knife into the heart of a non-yoruba if he has something to gain.

What happens to their muslims who have their tongues sown up the anus of the Fulani?

If they are serious about leaving Nigeria, they can fight for their own without insulting others.
They insulted Ojukwu, they insulted Uwazurike, insulted MASSOB. What did these people ever do to them? I still can't fathom.

Today they are lamenting about Kanu who have proven to them that insulting people is not their exclusive monopoly. Hypocrites.

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Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by JAMO84: 11:27pm On May 10, 2020
WeneDiali:


Yoruba will insert a stab a hot knife into the heart of a non-yoruba if he has something to gain.

What happens to their muslims who have their tongues sown up the anus of the Fulani?

If they are serious about leaving Nigeria, they can fight for their own without insulting others.
They insulted Ojukwu, they insulted Uwazurike, insulted MASSOB. What did these people ever do to them? I still can't fathom.

Today they are lamenting about Kanu who have proven to them that insulting people is not their exclusive monopoly. Hypocrites.
Igbo have been ass licking Fulani since 1956. Azikiwe was a useless figure head president, while Tafa Balewa was running things.

Igbo have been voting all Fulani Presidents since 1956 except Buhari.

Igbo have been slaving for PDP, a party formed by Hausa/Fulani for 24 years without anything to show for it.

Your hatred for Yoruba have made you people to insert your heads deeply into Fulani ass holes, and you will remain there till thy kingdom come!!!



I AM DONE TALKING
Re: Yoruba, Biafra UNPO Membership: Risk Of Nigeria Breaking Up Now Higher by llakes4real: 6:08am On May 11, 2020
knowledgeable:


To me oo, Yorubas + Igbos with a more progressive and Republican Constitution will create an African super power.

US dropped atomic bomb on Japan, today, US and Japan are one economically. Toyotas, Nissans, and Hondas are every where in US.

Did you read the OP at all? No one is forming any nation with anybody! Nigeria's unity is what the article is questioning.

How would Yoruba form a nation with Igbo when there are far better and richer options in a split Nigeria. Nonsense!

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