The Assembly of All Yoruba Groups Worldwide on Thursday picked, Prof Banji Akintoye, as the new leader of the Yoruba race.

The delegates of the groups, who converged on Ibadan, Oyo State capital for the fourth Yoruba leadership choice, unanimously endorsed Akintoye after his nomination by the Chief Imam of Yoruba in Ilorin, Sheikh Abdulraheem Aduamigba.

The nomination, which was said to be based on the antecedents and contributions of Akintoye to the development of the Yoruba race, was thereafter affirmed by the delegates of the Yoruba groups that attended the meeting.

Akintoye, who was absent at the event, was said to have satisfied the qualities set by the groups for a new leader of the race.

The convener of the event, Comrade Victor Taiwo, while addressing the delegates, regretted that the Yoruba race was being threatened and ailing terribly.

He said, “Why are we gathered here today? Our land, our nation, our race, the great Yoruba country is ailing terribly. We are in turmoil. We are in a moment of trouble. We are on the verge of subjugation. Our racial existence is being threatened.

“The giant is sleeping. The lion is running comatose. Our land is sick and we have been searching for an antidote to the ailments bedevilling us. Therefore, today, we are here to collectively begin the process of addressing the ailments towards our wholesome revitalisation.”

He lamented that the present administration at the federal level had lost the control of the situation in the country, saying that why was the Yoruba people needed to save their racial pride and existence.

“Taiwo said,” Today, or over the time, the economy of the country has consistently nose-dived. The political machine is fast crumbling. The social services have gone clogged. The infrastructure is in decay. The educational system has gone comatose. The health system has been jaundiced. The legal or judicial machine is rotting away.

“Everything in the country is sliding into the abyss. The country literally runs on shadow system and the last straw that is fast breaking the camel’s back is the state of insecurity in the land whereby life has become the cheapest article in our markets as the citizens are now susceptible to wastage at the will and with all impunity, chief of which is the Fulani aggression, onslaughts and expansionism agenda of the country.”

The convener, however, lamented that after the death of the last Yoruba leader, Chief Abraham Adesanya, the race has not been able to have another person that would lead its struggles and agitations.

He said some of the qualities or credentials that were considered to arrive at a new leader include wisdom, high intellect, patriotism to Yoruba cause, passionate commitment, bravery, courage, uncompromising trait among others.

Also speaking at the event, the Baale of Ekotedo, Chief Taye Ayorinde, said it was time for Yorubas to rise and defend themselves in the face of intimidation and oppression.

He stated that Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief Adekunle Ajasin and Adesanya were not chosen as leaders because of other factors than their activities and commitment to the cause of the race.

Ayorinde said, “We need a leader that cannot be bribed, we need someone without blemish, we need a leader that is passionate about everything that concerns the Yoruba race.”
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Bio
Stephen Adebanji Akintoye, also known as S. Banji Akintoye (born 1935), is a Nigerian-born academic, historian and writer. He attended Christ's School Ado Ekiti, Nigeria from 1951–1955, and studied history at the University College (Overseas College of the University of London), Ibadan (1956–1961), and doctoral studies from 1963-1966 at the University of Ibadan, where he was awarded a PhD in History in 1966. He taught at the History Department at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, where he became a professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies from 1974-1977. He has also taught African History in universities in the United States including the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; Montgomery County Community College, PA, and Eastern University, St. Davids, Pennsylvania. Akintoye has written four books, chapters in many joint books, and several articles in scholarly journals. He took a leading part for some time in the politics of Nigeria and served on the Nigerian Senate from 1979–1983 during the Second Republic. He currently lives in Pennsylvania in the United States.

Akintoye is one of the current leading scholars on the history of the Yoruba people. His most recent work, A History of the Yoruba People (Amalion, 2010), draws on decades of new findings and thinking on Yoruba studies that challenges some previously dominant notions about the origins of the Yoruba. This work dispels the Middle Eastern and Arabia origins propounded by such scholars as the late Samuel Johnson (1846–1901) and also gave prominence to the works on the Pre-Oduduwa Period by Ulli Beier among others. Akintoye also gave prominence to the role of Ilé-Ifè over that of Oyo. A reviewer, Wale Adebanwi, notes: "...this book directly contests and shifts the focus of Yoruba history away from what many have called the Oyo-centric account of Samuel Johnson... Where Johnson avoids the creation myth that positions Ife as the sacred locus of Oduduwa's original descent and the orirun (creation-source), Akintoye, justifiably, restores Ile-Ife to its proper place as "ibi ojumo ti mon wa'ye" (where the dawn emerges)

Congratulations to the yoruba nation

Congrats oo! May your new position be used to act according to the pleasure of God so that it'll not be in vain.

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The only true leader we know.

kevapet:
The only true leader we know.

Yes.

The omo ales are tying to claim that Igboho is the one leading when it's Prof. Banji Akintoye.

OdudwaR:


Yes.

The omo ales are tying to claim that Igboho is the one leading when it's Prof. Banji Akintoye.

The cowharididinrin one nijeriyanists fool.ani slaves and the primitive frustrated soul from the yeast only. They should continue in their foolery. It stops nothing.

Helinues the Fulani Bororo come and see the person that will lead the Yoruba out of OnE nIJeRiyA.

seunmsg go and relay to your slave master Tinubu, that Yorubas are leaving NijERIyA and there is not a damn think he can do about it.

omonnakoda the Fulani slave come and cry for daddy , we the Yorubas are leaving NiJEriYa your nightmare is about to be a reality .

What has he been smoking at this his old age?

Good choice
Tinubu can not bribe this one
greetings from ss/se

Worthy choice. But we need lieutenants. Combat ready lieutenants.

OdudwaR:


Yes.

The omo ales are tying to claim that Igboho is the one leading when it's Prof. Banji Akintoye.

Igboho is like ikonso
he is a balogun
the fighter

limeta:
Good choice Tinubu can not bribe this one greetings from ss/se

attache by force

theTranslator1:

attache by force

who ya talk bout

Long live the Professor. The birth of a peaceful, progressive and economically viable Odua nation as an independent country is nigh......I will continue to do all within my power to support this cause.

Buhari is watching

coolitempa:
Long live the Professor. The birth of a peaceful, progressive and economically viable Odua nation as an independent country is nigh......I will continue to do all within my power to support this cause.

O si ni se aseti.

limeta:
Good choice
Tinubu can not bribe this one
greetings from ss/se

Attache by force,the no 1 reason your biafra will remain elusive till u maintain your 5 eroded state, SS my foot,let Wike hear u,oyingbo comes to mind.

coolitempa:
Long live the Professor. The birth of a peaceful, progressive and economically viable Odua nation as an independent country is nigh......I will continue to do all within my power to support this cause.

Wow it is good to see Yorubas in diaspora supporting the cause.
We Yorubas here appreciate people like you very much.

My leader

nisai:
O si ni se aseti.

Ese pupo.....Amin.

Letthrmsay:



Attache by force,the no 1 reason your biafra will remain elusive till u maintain your 5 eroded state, SS my foot,let Wike hear u,oyingbo comes to mind.

boudiaye