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2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by pinkPUSSY(f): 12:12pm On Nov 14, 2022
The recent attacks on two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in two States of the South-West have been generating speculations among concerned residents who were shocked by the unexpected incidents.


To indigenes and residents of the South-West, an attack on INEC office is strange and extremely unusual.

In some other parts of Nigeria, especially in the South-East, many INEC offices have been set on fire by unknown individuals.

In many of the attacks, members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were fingered as the masterminds. This is so because the group has continued to agitate for an independent nation, saying no to the 2023 elections.


Since the Tuesday incidents in Osun and Ogun, some Nigerians have speculated that the brains behind the fire attacks might be some Yoruba Nation apologists, who have not stopped threatening that there would be no elections in Yorubaland in 2023.

Like their IPOB counterparts, Oodua Republic agitators have insisted that there would be no elections.

Since 2021, the self-styled Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Igboho, and his spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, have insisted that there would be no elections next year.

Though Sunday Igboho has ‘lowered his voice’ since his ordeals in Benin Republic, however, he recently said there is no going back on Yoruba Nation.


“I, Sunday Adeyemo and all those who are following me on the issue of Yoruba Nation, there is no going back for us. There are talks around that we have stopped clamouring for Yoruba nation, that is not true, it is an unconfirmed rumour. We want Yoruba Nation.

“I want you, the Yoruba monarchs, to call a meeting, come together, you can see how our people are being killed everywhere, this is not good. Please come together and support us, may you live long. Yoruba Nation, no going back,” he said.


In March 2022, a group known as the Yoruba One Voice (YOV), said the 2023 general elections were not on its agenda but rather, the agitation for self-determination of the Yoruba nation.

Likewise in May, a group identified as Yoruba Referendum Committee (Agbajoowo la fi n soya) called on the lawmakers in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, and Ekiti States to pass into law, the Bill for a Referendum, which they claimed has already been sent to them twice.

Also, the leader of Yoruba Self-Determination Movement (YSDM), Prof Banji Akintoye, recently expressed optimism that Yoruba Nation would have been achieved before February and March 2023, when the elections would take place.

In less than four months to the elections, some agitators, who have not seen any signal that their plans for a sovereign State would materialise, could have resorted to self help, our correspondent gathered.

Professor Akintoye alluded to the fact that the young ones in the struggle are eager to have their own independent nation, stating that, “I know that young people want to jump now. But their elders would hold them back by telling them to wait, and that they should not jump yet.”

Akintoye added that there are about 200 groups in the mission for Yoruba independence.

“We have very many organisations in the struggle. They are up to 200. We deliberately did that from the beginning. Let there be many organisations and don’t let the authority be able to decipher who is who. That’s why we assisted many of our youths to establish their own organisations,” he added.

Earlier in the month of October, a coalition under the auspices of the Yoruba Appraisal Forum (YAF) had raised the alarm over alleged plans by Yoruba Nation agitators to cause violence and chaos in the South-West.

YAF National Coordinator, Adesina Animashaun, at a press briefing in Lagos State, said the objective of the secessionists was how to truncate the conduct of the 2023 general elections.

He alleged that some disgruntled persons in the South-West had been engaging in clandestine activities to spark off “killings, arson and mayhem that would undermine the electoral process and ultimately truncate next year’s elections” throughout the country.

According to him, the violence was planned to coincide with the campaigns by political parties in the six South-West States, as it was aimed at “re-enacting the arson and killings that characterised the unfortunate ‘Operation Wetie’ violence”, which he said took place in the First Republic.

“It appears the alarm raised by the YAF group was not taken seriously by security agencies and the resultant effect was what we witnessed last week in Ogun and Osun INEC offices,” a source told DAILY POST.

It would be recalled that some Yoruba Nation agitators recently attacked soldiers in Ota area of Ogun, carting away the rifle of an officer who also sustained injuries.

A senior security operative in the South West confided in our correspondent that the Yoruba Nation agitators are prime suspects in the unfortunate incident.

According to him, it was not a coincidence that the two INEC offices were set on fire same day, same time. He recalled that the two were torched with loaves of bread soaked with gasoline.

“This is really a coordinated attack by those agitators who do not want the 2023 elections to hold. They are seeing that everything is getting set and they don’t know what to do to stop the election.

“Politicians will not go and burn voters’ cards because they know their members would be affected too. They will rather find another way to rig elections,” the security officer spoke anonymously because he is not permitted to address the press.

In his own view, a public commentator, Alhaji Ola Animashaun, said anything is possible as far as the arson is concerned.

However, Animashaun wants security operatives to dig deep in fishing out whoever was responsible for the attacks.

“Nothing is impossible and anything is possible in Nigerian politics, Ogun State inclusive.

“But without necessarily being restrictive, I would rather wish politicians should be effectively ‘x-rayed’ in this instance. However, some anti-democratic fifth columnists could also be at work for some unexplainable agenda as it were.

“I think the 2023 desperadoes should not be off the radar of those looking into the Ogun/Osun (Ede) INEC area offices fire disaster. Coordinated or coincidental, some people somewhere, within or outside INEC, are in what can be called “desperate mode,” Animashaun stated.

Speaking, a political leader in Ogun State, Chief Dapo Adeyemi, opined that the attacks might be the handiwork of some politicians who are afraid of their seamy popularity among the electorate.

“It is not the first time that INEC facilities are being attacked or burnt. I am not sure the latest attacks, though happening in the South-West, could be the handiwork of Yoruba Nation agitators.

“One obvious fact is that the recent attack has political undertone and this is where the security agencies should ensure that the arsonists are fished out and their sponsors identified,” Adeyemi posited.

INEC, security agencies take actions

Meanwhile, at an emergency meeting of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee On Election Security (ICCES) held Friday to discuss the simultaneous attacks on INEC offices in Abeokuta South of Ogun and Ede South of Osun, it was resolved that security agencies would upscale intelligence gathering, sharing and utilising same to stem further sabotage.

The meeting, which was co-chaired by the Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), was attended by the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, representatives of the Armed Forces and others.

It was agreed at the emergency meeting that there would be the deployment of joint Security and Safety Teams to all INEC assets and facilities nationwide henceforth.

The teams, DAILY POST learnt, would include the police, Army, DSS, Civil Defence, the Federal Fire Service and others.

“The meeting appealed to Nigerians to continue to support the INEC and the security agencies to ensure a peaceful and secure environment for the 2023 General Election,” a statement released by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Security Committee of INEC, Maj. Gen. Modibbo A. Alkali (rtd) said.

Dialogue with secessionists for peaceful elections – Primate Ayodele to Buhari

On his part, the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to dialogue with IPOB and Yoruba nation agitators for the sake of peace during the 2023 election.

Ayodele maintained that now is the best time “to avoid the crisis planned to mar the 2023 general elections.”


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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by pinkPUSSY(f): 12:12pm On Nov 14, 2022
Igboho boys are really serious about their " No election in Yoruba land in 2023"

They are just targeting Tinubu's stronghold while urchings are hoping for Ipob to disrupt
election in SE which is not happening..

Poor urchings and their wishful thinking..

Minus 127 thousand votes..

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by pinkPUSSY(f): 12:13pm On Nov 14, 2022
No election in SW 2023...

Come out and collect wotowoto

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by successmatters(m): 12:14pm On Nov 14, 2022
Na so e dey start, wild allegations.

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Ofunaofu: 12:14pm On Nov 14, 2022
Tinubu, through his Oduduwa agitators is already burning down the south west, having realized that his life long ambition is dead on arrival.


Tinubu never believed in one Nigeria

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by ElderStateMann(m): 12:15pm On Nov 14, 2022
No election in Yorubaland. Any Yoruba man or woman that comes out to vote on election day must regret his or her life. There will be no election in the whole Yorubaland. Know this and know peace

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by slivertongue: 12:17pm On Nov 14, 2022
Shame to anarchist
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Urheadmaster(m): 12:18pm On Nov 14, 2022
ElderStateMann:
No election in Yorubaland. Any Yoruba man or woman that comes out to vote on election day must regret his or her life. There will be no election in the whole Yorubaland. Know this and know peace


Election will hold in all the Yorubaland

Including in igboland.

Know that and have rest of mind tongue

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Zonefree(m): 12:21pm On Nov 14, 2022
If these Yoruba terrorists insist on "No Election in Yorubaland ", then FG has no choice than to treat them in a language they understand.

Say No to Yoruba Terrorists!

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Zonefree(m): 12:21pm On Nov 14, 2022
ElderStateMann:
No election in Yorubaland. Any Yoruba man or woman that comes out to vote on election day must regret his or her life. There will be no election in the whole Yorubaland. Know this and know peace
grin grin

Nigerian Army are saying Hi.

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Nobody: 12:24pm On Nov 14, 2022
Bola Ahmed Tinubu: From Drug Lord To Presidential Candidate by David Hundeyin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji210K94MgQ
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by mrpassionate(m): 12:30pm On Nov 14, 2022
,........
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Acidosis(m): 12:31pm On Nov 14, 2022
It's quite doubtful that INEC would replace the approximately 60,000 voter cards that have already been destroyed in the region. There should be no justification for postponing or cancelling elections in any ward, LGA, or area. We know how they tried to manipulate the election in Osun state.

Buhari should be given another four years to govern, or INEC should just sit up! I am ready and willing to risk another 4 years with Buhari than a repackaged druggie fraud whose football age of 70 is more worrisome and devastating than Obasanjo's 85 years.
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by successmatters(m): 12:31pm On Nov 14, 2022
mrpassionate:
Hi,
I sent you a mail request.




grin grin I see what you're trying to do there
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by ganisucks(f): 12:39pm On Nov 14, 2022
pinkPUSSY:
The recent attacks on two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in two States of the South-West have been generating speculations among concerned residents who were shocked by the unexpected incidents.


To indigenes and residents of the South-West, an attack on INEC office is strange and extremely unusual.

In some other parts of Nigeria, especially in the South-East, many INEC offices have been set on fire by unknown individuals.

In many of the attacks, members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were fingered as the masterminds. This is so because the group has continued to agitate for an independent nation, saying no to the 2023 elections.


Since the Tuesday incidents in Osun and Ogun, some Nigerians have speculated that the brains behind the fire attacks might be some Yoruba Nation apologists, who have not stopped threatening that there would be no elections in Yorubaland in 2023.

Like their IPOB counterparts, Oodua Republic agitators have insisted that there would be no elections.

Since 2021, the self-styled Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Igboho, and his spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, have insisted that there would be no elections next year.

Though Sunday Igboho has ‘lowered his voice’ since his ordeals in Benin Republic, however, he recently said there is no going back on Yoruba Nation.


“I, Sunday Adeyemo and all those who are following me on the issue of Yoruba Nation, there is no going back for us. There are talks around that we have stopped clamouring for Yoruba nation, that is not true, it is an unconfirmed rumour. We want Yoruba Nation.

“I want you, the Yoruba monarchs, to call a meeting, come together, you can see how our people are being killed everywhere, this is not good. Please come together and support us, may you live long. Yoruba Nation, no going back,” he said.


In March 2022, a group known as the Yoruba One Voice (YOV), said the 2023 general elections were not on its agenda but rather, the agitation for self-determination of the Yoruba nation.

Likewise in May, a group identified as Yoruba Referendum Committee (Agbajoowo la fi n soya) called on the lawmakers in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, and Ekiti States to pass into law, the Bill for a Referendum, which they claimed has already been sent to them twice.

Also, the leader of Yoruba Self-Determination Movement (YSDM), Prof Banji Akintoye, recently expressed optimism that Yoruba Nation would have been achieved before February and March 2023, when the elections would take place.

In less than four months to the elections, some agitators, who have not seen any signal that their plans for a sovereign State would materialise, could have resorted to self help, our correspondent gathered.

Professor Akintoye alluded to the fact that the young ones in the struggle are eager to have their own independent nation, stating that, “I know that young people want to jump now. But their elders would hold them back by telling them to wait, and that they should not jump yet.”

Akintoye added that there are about 200 groups in the mission for Yoruba independence.

“We have very many organisations in the struggle. They are up to 200. We deliberately did that from the beginning. Let there be many organisations and don’t let the authority be able to decipher who is who. That’s why we assisted many of our youths to establish their own organisations,” he added.

Earlier in the month of October, a coalition under the auspices of the Yoruba Appraisal Forum (YAF) had raised the alarm over alleged plans by Yoruba Nation agitators to cause violence and chaos in the South-West.

YAF National Coordinator, Adesina Animashaun, at a press briefing in Lagos State, said the objective of the secessionists was how to truncate the conduct of the 2023 general elections.

He alleged that some disgruntled persons in the South-West had been engaging in clandestine activities to spark off “killings, arson and mayhem that would undermine the electoral process and ultimately truncate next year’s elections” throughout the country.

According to him, the violence was planned to coincide with the campaigns by political parties in the six South-West States, as it was aimed at “re-enacting the arson and killings that characterised the unfortunate ‘Operation Wetie’ violence”, which he said took place in the First Republic.

“It appears the alarm raised by the YAF group was not taken seriously by security agencies and the resultant effect was what we witnessed last week in Ogun and Osun INEC offices,” a source told DAILY POST.

It would be recalled that some Yoruba Nation agitators recently attacked soldiers in Ota area of Ogun, carting away the rifle of an officer who also sustained injuries.

A senior security operative in the South West confided in our correspondent that the Yoruba Nation agitators are prime suspects in the unfortunate incident.

According to him, it was not a coincidence that the two INEC offices were set on fire same day, same time. He recalled that the two were torched with loaves of bread soaked with gasoline.

“This is really a coordinated attack by those agitators who do not want the 2023 elections to hold. They are seeing that everything is getting set and they don’t know what to do to stop the election.

“Politicians will not go and burn voters’ cards because they know their members would be affected too. They will rather find another way to rig elections,” the security officer spoke anonymously because he is not permitted to address the press.

In his own view, a public commentator, Alhaji Ola Animashaun, said anything is possible as far as the arson is concerned.

However, Animashaun wants security operatives to dig deep in fishing out whoever was responsible for the attacks.

“Nothing is impossible and anything is possible in Nigerian politics, Ogun State inclusive.

“But without necessarily being restrictive, I would rather wish politicians should be effectively ‘x-rayed’ in this instance. However, some anti-democratic fifth columnists could also be at work for some unexplainable agenda as it were.

“I think the 2023 desperadoes should not be off the radar of those looking into the Ogun/Osun (Ede) INEC area offices fire disaster. Coordinated or coincidental, some people somewhere, within or outside INEC, are in what can be called “desperate mode,” Animashaun stated.

Speaking, a political leader in Ogun State, Chief Dapo Adeyemi, opined that the attacks might be the handiwork of some politicians who are afraid of their seamy popularity among the electorate.

“It is not the first time that INEC facilities are being attacked or burnt. I am not sure the latest attacks, though happening in the South-West, could be the handiwork of Yoruba Nation agitators.

“One obvious fact is that the recent attack has political undertone and this is where the security agencies should ensure that the arsonists are fished out and their sponsors identified,” Adeyemi posited.

INEC, security agencies take actions

Meanwhile, at an emergency meeting of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee On Election Security (ICCES) held Friday to discuss the simultaneous attacks on INEC offices in Abeokuta South of Ogun and Ede South of Osun, it was resolved that security agencies would upscale intelligence gathering, sharing and utilising same to stem further sabotage.

The meeting, which was co-chaired by the Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), was attended by the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, representatives of the Armed Forces and others.

It was agreed at the emergency meeting that there would be the deployment of joint Security and Safety Teams to all INEC assets and facilities nationwide henceforth.

The teams, DAILY POST learnt, would include the police, Army, DSS, Civil Defence, the Federal Fire Service and others.

“The meeting appealed to Nigerians to continue to support the INEC and the security agencies to ensure a peaceful and secure environment for the 2023 General Election,” a statement released by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Security Committee of INEC, Maj. Gen. Modibbo A. Alkali (rtd) said.

Dialogue with secessionists for peaceful elections – Primate Ayodele to Buhari

On his part, the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to dialogue with IPOB and Yoruba nation agitators for the sake of peace during the 2023 election.

Ayodele maintained that now is the best time “to avoid the crisis planned to mar the 2023 general elections.”


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Hogwash? Because Munguno sounded the warning to SWAGA and co; they have found a dog to give a bad name.
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Putindbutt: 12:49pm On Nov 14, 2022
Fake headline. Yoruba nation agitators are not violent and they have never been recorded to destroy any public properties. Igbos should stop attaching themselves to a non violent group

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by pinkPUSSY(f): 2:10pm On Nov 14, 2022
Putindbutt:
Fake headline. Yoruba nation agitators are not violent and they have never been recorded to destroy any public properties. Igbos should stop attaching themselves to a non violent group


Igbos giants dey chase u for dreams ?

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by XerXers: 2:29pm On Nov 14, 2022
No election in yorubaland

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by EzeNwaanyiMmili(f): 2:44pm On Nov 14, 2022
yes ooo
we move

real Yorubas are fighting for their rights ooo
God bless them
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by EzeNwaanyiMmili(f): 2:45pm On Nov 14, 2022
nlfpmod this source is reputable ooo
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by mrpassionate(m): 2:56pm On Nov 14, 2022
You could be very WRONG


successmatters:


grin grin I see what you're trying to do there
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by BATified2023: 3:05pm On Nov 14, 2022
pinkPUSSY:
Igboho boys are really serious about their " No election in Yoruba land in 2023"

They are just targeting Tinubu's stronghold while urchings are hoping for Ipob to disrupt
election in SE which is not happening..

Poor urchings and their wishful thinking..

Minus 127 thousand votes..
u igbos believe yorubas will do d same madness with u right?

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Jostoman: 3:12pm On Nov 14, 2022
pinkPUSSY:
Igboho boys are really serious about their " No election in Yoruba land in 2023"

They are just targeting Tinubu's stronghold while urchings are hoping for Ipob to disrupt
election in SE which is not happening..

Poor urchings and their wishful thinking..

Minus 127 thousand votes..
you have never make any reasonable comment on nairaland ever since i know you.

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Jostoman: 3:14pm On Nov 14, 2022
Zonefree:
If these Yoruba terrorists insist on "No Election in Yorubaland ", then FG has no choice than to treat them in a language they understand.

Say No to Yoruba Terrorists!
where is your evidence
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Jostoman: 3:15pm On Nov 14, 2022
The candidate that is playing politics of bitterness knows himsef, the outcome of Osun state election and the feed back they are geting from ogun state is what is giving baba a sleepless night and i dont know why inec why inec will be announcing most state with new register voters now instead of january they promise to announce it before.
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Salvador1: 3:21pm On Nov 14, 2022
Lol.

No election in afonja land.
Hehehehehe.
Voter apathy loading.

Drug Baron lord will kpai by January.
Army should prepare for shooting spree during and after the election.
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by Jostoman: 3:35pm On Nov 14, 2022
Salvador1:
Lol.

No election in afonja land.
Hehehehehe.
Voter apathy loading.

Drug Baron lord will kpai by January.
Army should prepare for shooting spree during and after the election.
it is those despirate politician that are doing those nonsense not any yoruba agitation.

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by XerXers: 3:48pm On Nov 14, 2022
BATified2023:
u igbos believe yorubas will do d same madness with u right?
Once Tinubu fails, he will end up in prison like Awolowo and MKO

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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by XerXers: 3:49pm On Nov 14, 2022
Jostoman:
it is those despirate politician that are doing those nonsense not any yoruba agitation.
Wow, I thought they are igbos, sense is gradually entering afonjas head
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by tungamaje: 4:52pm On Nov 14, 2022
So these people are still talking about Yoruba Nesan? I thought they have relaxed
Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by JoeNL22(m): 4:53pm On Nov 14, 2022
pinkPUSSY:
The recent attacks on two offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in two States of the South-West have been generating speculations among concerned residents who were shocked by the unexpected incidents.


To indigenes and residents of the South-West, an attack on INEC office is strange and extremely unusual.

In some other parts of Nigeria, especially in the South-East, many INEC offices have been set on fire by unknown individuals.

In many of the attacks, members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) were fingered as the masterminds. This is so because the group has continued to agitate for an independent nation, saying no to the 2023 elections.


Since the Tuesday incidents in Osun and Ogun, some Nigerians have speculated that the brains behind the fire attacks might be some Yoruba Nation apologists, who have not stopped threatening that there would be no elections in Yorubaland in 2023.

Like their IPOB counterparts, Oodua Republic agitators have insisted that there would be no elections.

Since 2021, the self-styled Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Igboho, and his spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, have insisted that there would be no elections next year.

Though Sunday Igboho has ‘lowered his voice’ since his ordeals in Benin Republic, however, he recently said there is no going back on Yoruba Nation.


“I, Sunday Adeyemo and all those who are following me on the issue of Yoruba Nation, there is no going back for us. There are talks around that we have stopped clamouring for Yoruba nation, that is not true, it is an unconfirmed rumour. We want Yoruba Nation.

“I want you, the Yoruba monarchs, to call a meeting, come together, you can see how our people are being killed everywhere, this is not good. Please come together and support us, may you live long. Yoruba Nation, no going back,” he said.


In March 2022, a group known as the Yoruba One Voice (YOV), said the 2023 general elections were not on its agenda but rather, the agitation for self-determination of the Yoruba nation.

Likewise in May, a group identified as Yoruba Referendum Committee (Agbajoowo la fi n soya) called on the lawmakers in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo, and Ekiti States to pass into law, the Bill for a Referendum, which they claimed has already been sent to them twice.

Also, the leader of Yoruba Self-Determination Movement (YSDM), Prof Banji Akintoye, recently expressed optimism that Yoruba Nation would have been achieved before February and March 2023, when the elections would take place.

In less than four months to the elections, some agitators, who have not seen any signal that their plans for a sovereign State would materialise, could have resorted to self help, our correspondent gathered.

Professor Akintoye alluded to the fact that the young ones in the struggle are eager to have their own independent nation, stating that, “I know that young people want to jump now. But their elders would hold them back by telling them to wait, and that they should not jump yet.”

Akintoye added that there are about 200 groups in the mission for Yoruba independence.

“We have very many organisations in the struggle. They are up to 200. We deliberately did that from the beginning. Let there be many organisations and don’t let the authority be able to decipher who is who. That’s why we assisted many of our youths to establish their own organisations,” he added.

Earlier in the month of October, a coalition under the auspices of the Yoruba Appraisal Forum (YAF) had raised the alarm over alleged plans by Yoruba Nation agitators to cause violence and chaos in the South-West.

YAF National Coordinator, Adesina Animashaun, at a press briefing in Lagos State, said the objective of the secessionists was how to truncate the conduct of the 2023 general elections.

He alleged that some disgruntled persons in the South-West had been engaging in clandestine activities to spark off “killings, arson and mayhem that would undermine the electoral process and ultimately truncate next year’s elections” throughout the country.

According to him, the violence was planned to coincide with the campaigns by political parties in the six South-West States, as it was aimed at “re-enacting the arson and killings that characterised the unfortunate ‘Operation Wetie’ violence”, which he said took place in the First Republic.

“It appears the alarm raised by the YAF group was not taken seriously by security agencies and the resultant effect was what we witnessed last week in Ogun and Osun INEC offices,” a source told DAILY POST.

It would be recalled that some Yoruba Nation agitators recently attacked soldiers in Ota area of Ogun, carting away the rifle of an officer who also sustained injuries.

A senior security operative in the South West confided in our correspondent that the Yoruba Nation agitators are prime suspects in the unfortunate incident.

According to him, it was not a coincidence that the two INEC offices were set on fire same day, same time. He recalled that the two were torched with loaves of bread soaked with gasoline.

“This is really a coordinated attack by those agitators who do not want the 2023 elections to hold. They are seeing that everything is getting set and they don’t know what to do to stop the election.

“Politicians will not go and burn voters’ cards because they know their members would be affected too. They will rather find another way to rig elections,” the security officer spoke anonymously because he is not permitted to address the press.

In his own view, a public commentator, Alhaji Ola Animashaun, said anything is possible as far as the arson is concerned.

However, Animashaun wants security operatives to dig deep in fishing out whoever was responsible for the attacks.

“Nothing is impossible and anything is possible in Nigerian politics, Ogun State inclusive.

“But without necessarily being restrictive, I would rather wish politicians should be effectively ‘x-rayed’ in this instance. However, some anti-democratic fifth columnists could also be at work for some unexplainable agenda as it were.

“I think the 2023 desperadoes should not be off the radar of those looking into the Ogun/Osun (Ede) INEC area offices fire disaster. Coordinated or coincidental, some people somewhere, within or outside INEC, are in what can be called “desperate mode,” Animashaun stated.

Speaking, a political leader in Ogun State, Chief Dapo Adeyemi, opined that the attacks might be the handiwork of some politicians who are afraid of their seamy popularity among the electorate.

“It is not the first time that INEC facilities are being attacked or burnt. I am not sure the latest attacks, though happening in the South-West, could be the handiwork of Yoruba Nation agitators.

“One obvious fact is that the recent attack has political undertone and this is where the security agencies should ensure that the arsonists are fished out and their sponsors identified,” Adeyemi posited.

INEC, security agencies take actions

Meanwhile, at an emergency meeting of the Inter-agency Consultative Committee On Election Security (ICCES) held Friday to discuss the simultaneous attacks on INEC offices in Abeokuta South of Ogun and Ede South of Osun, it was resolved that security agencies would upscale intelligence gathering, sharing and utilising same to stem further sabotage.

The meeting, which was co-chaired by the Chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), was attended by the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, representatives of the Armed Forces and others.

It was agreed at the emergency meeting that there would be the deployment of joint Security and Safety Teams to all INEC assets and facilities nationwide henceforth.

The teams, DAILY POST learnt, would include the police, Army, DSS, Civil Defence, the Federal Fire Service and others.

“The meeting appealed to Nigerians to continue to support the INEC and the security agencies to ensure a peaceful and secure environment for the 2023 General Election,” a statement released by the National Commissioner and Chairman, Security Committee of INEC, Maj. Gen. Modibbo A. Alkali (rtd) said.

Dialogue with secessionists for peaceful elections – Primate Ayodele to Buhari

On his part, the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to dialogue with IPOB and Yoruba nation agitators for the sake of peace during the 2023 election.

Ayodele maintained that now is the best time “to avoid the crisis planned to mar the 2023 general elections.”


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Re: 2023: Yoruba Nation Agitators Accused Of Burning INEC Office by demmie1: 5:06pm On Nov 14, 2022
pinkPUSSY:
Igboho boys are really serious about their " No election in Yoruba land in 2023"

They are just targeting Tinubu's stronghold while urchings are hoping for Ipob to disrupt
election in SE which is not happening..

Poor urchings and their wishful thinking..

Minus 127 thousand votes..

Apes obey

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