The Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has called for northern leaders and the Federal Government to halt immediately the ongoing ethno-religious violence in Sokoto and other northern states, as well as guarantee the safety of the lives and businesses of Southerners in the North.

In a statement by OPC’s President, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi, the group also demanded the immediate arrest and prosecution by police and security authorities of the Islamic leaders who fuelled the crisis by directly mobilising rioters and through making inflammatory statements, following the killing of the female student of the Shehu Shagari College of Education.

“These people must know that nobody has a monopoly of violence. Nobody should provoke Yoruba people. Northerners cannot continue to take the laws into their hands. We hold President Muhammadu Buhari and all the governors responsible for this provocative resort to violence by rioters. Northern leaders must immediately put a stop to this madness because it is capable of provoking reprisals from other parts of the country,” OPC said, adding, “Enough is enough.”

Condemning the killing of Miss Deborah Samuel in the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, the Yoruba socio-cultural group described her murder as unwarranted, barbaric and provocative.

Afolabi said: “We demand justice for Miss Deborah Samuel, whose life was so brazenly cut short in her prime. OPC demands that her killers must be hunted down, brought to justice and made to face the maximum punishment that the law dictates.”

Describing the spiralling riots as unjust and provocative, OPC warned that it would not fold it arms while Yoruba and Southerners were being killed and maltreated in the North by rampaging fundamentalists.

He added: “Equally, we note with much concern the provocative statements made by some religious and regional leaders, who flagrantly justified the killing of Miss Deborah Samuel. We demand that such disgruntled elements must be arrested and charged to court.”

According to Afolabi, it stood logic on its head and it was a proof of the collusion between authorities and religious fundamentalists the fact that the arrest of suspects in the Sokoto killing sparked riots in Sokoto and some northern cities.

OPC said: “This is what we have always said about the lopsided structure of President Buhari’s security architecture. The only thing that has emboldened these mobsters is the fact that all the security levers are under the total control of Northerners, who will treat their violence with kid’s gloves.”

Recalling that former President Olusegun Obasanjo once declared that security agencies should shoot-on-sight members of OPC and other self-determination groups for no justifiable reason, Afolabi wondered why President Muhammadu Buhari had failed to read the riot act to rampaging rioters in the North now maiming, killing and looting with reckless abandon.

OPC called for Buhari to borrow a leaf from General Sani Abacha’s handling of the Wahhabists involved in the 1995 beheading in Kano of Gideon Akaluka, a South-Easterner.

“These misguided miscreants must learn the hard way that the true God Almighty does not demand human sacrifice; and on no account should they ever take the life of anybody,” Afolabi said.

https://thenewsgiant.com/opc-spits-fire-on-sokoto-riots-killing-of-db/

We want no war people. Please let peace reign

#OccupyNigeria abd #ENDSARS protests have taught me that we only make noise in this country... No effect!!!

Nice one from the ever reliable OPC

The same treatment should be given to Northerner too in the South

First time Yoruba is speaking out. They are almost always docile, waiting for the Igbos. Hopefully my ire for them will start coming down now that they are speaking up, instead of always insulting those that speak out.

BloomingDale:
First time Yoruba is speaking out. They are almost always docile, waiting for the Igbos. Hopefully my ire for them will start coming down now that they are speaking up, instead of always insulting those that speak out.

Yoruba waiting for yeebow for what?..

Pls read the difference between Buhari, Obj and Abacha.

You will realize, Buhari is the biggest bigot, and avoidable mistake we shouldn't have made !!!

Recalling that former President Olusegun Obasanjo once declared that security agencies should shoot-on-sight members of OPC and other self-determination groups for no justifiable reason, Afolabi wondered why President Muhammadu Buhari had failed to read the riot act to rampaging rioters in the North now maiming, killing and looting with reckless abandon.

OPC called for Buhari to borrow a leaf from General Sani Abacha’s handling of the Wahhabists involved in the 1995 beheading in Kano of Gideon Akaluka, a South-Easterner.


Hmm, may God help us!

BloomingDale:
First time Yoruba is speaking out. They are almost always docile, waiting for the Igbos. Hopefully my ire for them will start coming down now that they are speaking up, instead of always insulting those that speak out.

How do you mean ?

Have there ever been more people that have spoken and criticized Buhari administration than the yorubas

What of Afenifere and many elders and individuals

Bros, I will advise you to edit your post !

It's more or less a derogatory post to the yoruba race !!!

BloomingDale:
First time Yoruba is speaking out. They are almost always docile, waiting for the Igbos. Hopefully my ire for them will start coming down now that they are speaking up, instead of always insulting those that speak out.

PLS don't lower your ire for the yorubas. Let your ire soar to the highest height until it degenerates into high BP.

The yorubas have always speak out in every situations individually and collectively.

But your hatred won't let you see it.

Godfullsam:


PLS don't lower your ire for the yorubas. Let your ire soar to the highest height until it degenerates into high BP.

The yorubas have always speak out in every situations individually and collectively.

But your hatred won't let you see it.

My blood pressure has always been 90/60, so it might do my body good if it rises a little.

TundeDes:
We want no war people. Please let peace reign

C O W A R D!!!

A coward dies ten times before their actual death. You don't preach peace to those that see you as infidels who must be conquered. The more you preach peace to them, the more you disgust and make them angry.

You only stop them by standing up to them and threatening them of MAD!!

The Yorubas always threaten,they can do nothing

omenka come here now

YorubaIsGreat:
Yoruba waiting for yeebow for what?..

That's an insult.

TundeDes:
We want no war people. Please let peace reign

Got nothing to do with what you want
Everything to do with what you sow

BloomingDale:
First time Yoruba is speaking out. They are almost always docile, waiting for the Igbos. Hopefully my ire for them will start coming down now that they are speaking up, instead of always insulting those that speak out.

Most times,they prefer to just blame it on Igbo people so as to get a pat on the back from the northerners
We can’t forget Endsars,Abuja bomb scare,instead of looking for how to resolve the issue,they were busy pointing at IPOB

Aboki just killed 2 able Yoruba men two days ago . you did nothing. is it not a joke .

tutudesz:
The same treatment should be given to Northerner too in the South

Exactly. Kee them all

Is these a joke.afonjas giving warnibg
Who will take a treat from fearr fearr cowords seriously.
Abegi they should go and mine skulls joor.
Afonjas are the weakesst tribe in africa.no single streghntt at all.
Cowords

Bunch of scared people.

Assetinvestor:


C O W A R D!!!

A coward dies ten times before their actual death. You don't preach peace to those that see you as infidels who must be conquered. The more you preach peace to them, the more you disgust and make them angry.

You only stop them by standing up to them and threatening them of MAD!!

Don't stress yourself,he is an afonja.
Them sabi fearr like no tomorrow I bet any little noise they pee in their pannts.
How can northerners be giving afonjas jungle justice in their own villages and laughing why they burn to deathh.then the lucky afonjas excape through bush to ss/se region or to neighboring countries.
These is the height of all time cowordice.
Those abokis can't to do it anywhere in ss/se region.
They can't.

BloomingDale:
First time Yoruba is speaking out. They are almost always docile, waiting for the Igbos. Hopefully my ire for them will start coming down now that they are speaking up, instead of always insulting those that speak out.

How can Yorubas wait for Eeboes? How is that even possible in a dream not to talk of real life.
Eeboes are not that relevant to Yorubas apart from their amusement value

Tinubu the bridge builder will sympathise with the killers and will donate another 100 bags of Rice to those areas attacking the southerners