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ON MAY 26, 2021

AKURE—THE Arogbo Ijaw Patriots, yesterday, faulted the imposition of the Oodua anthem on the Ijaw minority in Ondo State by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, saying it is a flagrant violation of the rights of the Ijaw people in the state.

“In a statement by its Coordinator and Secretary, Messrs Fidelis Soriwei and Bibisa Kekemeke, respectively, the Ijaw group said that “it was absurd and rather disturbing that the governor would make it compulsory for Oodua or Ondo anthem (in Yoruba) to be sung in all secondary schools in Ondo State, where there are indigenous Ijaws.”

The group stated that the Ijaws of Ondo State “speak their own language, in consonance with their distinct ethnicity as an Ijaw minority and would like to keep that identity.”

It called on well meaning Nigerians to prevail on Akeredolu to respect the rights of the marginalized Arogbo Ijaws to “a respectful and dignified existence in Ondo State as provided for by the constitution.”

They lamented that the leadership of the Ondo State Civil Service took further steps in the abuse of the law to ask people including Arogbo Ijaws to sing the anthem in a promotion interview at the Governor’s Office Civil Service Matters.

They noted that Akeredolu, a senior lawyer of the ranking of SAN should “display the expected consciousness on the need for fairness to note the fact that Ondo State is not like the homogenous South West State where every citizen is Yoruba.

They called on the leadership of the Ijaw National Congress to intervene through its organs in the South West to avert further humiliation and oppression of the Arogbo Ijaws.

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Mynd44
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Ondo is a Yoruba state so the Arogbos should fall inline or they can relocate to Bayelsa (a majority ijaw state) if they're so offended by the decision. Reminds me of how some people (they know themselves) were wailing when Ambode and the Lagos State assembly passed a law on preservation of yoruba language in Lagos some years ago, even though similar laws had been passed in their own states without anyone raising an eyebrow.

AkalaJ:
Ondo is a Yoruba state so the Arogbos should fall inline or they can relocate to Bayelsa (a majority ijaw state) if they're so offended by the decision. Reminds me of how some people (they know themselves) were wailing when Ambode and the Lagos State assembly passed a law on preservation of yoruba language in Lagos some years ago, even though similar laws had been passed in their own states without anyone raising an eyebrow.

Gbam.

Rubbish... Some people just like to create problem where there is none.

Everyone knows Ondo state is YORUBA state, ijaw people in Ondo state should go to back to Bayelsa if you can’t respect the governor’s decision and if you don’t see yourself as part of the Yorubas in their state.

Grace001:
Rubbish... Some people just like to create problem where there is none.

Everyone knows Ondo state is YORUBA state, ijaw people in Ondo state should go to back to Bayelsa if you can’t respect the governor’s decision and if you don’t see yourself as part of the Yorubas in their state.

You're very stupid!

Ok

This is what you get when you don't put these minorities in their place. Mschew

Lagos official language is Yoruba and Egun in Lagos are even more than these minorities in Ondo and more sensible than these Arogbo Ijaws.Ijaws in Ondo are migrants who have over the years been assimilated.Some even bear Yoruba names.Sowore of SR is not Yoruba but has been assimilated.

Let those Ijaw people relocate back to Ijaw land if they can not abide by the Ondo state law..

Ondo government made the announcement not Ijaw government

There are no ijaws in Ondo state.
They should relocate to bayelsa and stop fermenting trouble.
Ondo is 100% Yoruba state.
I love that state and ondo people

We are all Nigerians