₦airaland Forum

Sola Ahmed

Failure to dialogue with aggrieved parties in the Niger-Delta and South East states will undermine the ability of the new All Progressives Congress, (APC) to stabilize Nigeria and grow the economy, the Oodua Nationalist Coalition, (ONAC) warned on Friday and made available to Irohinoodua.

In a statement issued on Friday, the pan Yoruba group urged President Mohammadu Buhari to put military pride aside and open a window of dialogue with the Niger Delta Avengers and the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, (IPOD) adding that most of the foot soldiers of the groups are barely old enough to be Buhari’s grand children.

“We condemn the suggestion that soldiers be drafted to the Niger-Delta region. We oppose the militarization of the Igbo South East and the consequent killings of both armless civilians. Our sympathy goes to the young men that have been murdered and the soldiers that have had to lay down their lives as a result of lack of wisdom and common sense on the part of Nigerian leadership,” ONAC said in a statement signed by its Director of Strategy, Oke Ogundade

ONAC said Buhari has a lot of goodwill and that he should know how not to squander the benevolence through horrendous human right violations that will happen in the Niger-Delta which will compel the civil society across the world to stir outcries against his regime.

The group said “We think a reasonable leadership should worry that from the East, West and South, young people in their teens have taken up arms against constituted authorities and a political class noted for spineless corruption, wickedness and reckless management of state resources. Arms have become a cheap item in the hands of many young Nigerians. The solution is not violent clampdown, but a statesmanship strategy that will mimimise human casualties and treat the root cause of violence.

“The Ijaws have been condemned that because ousted President Goodluck Jonathan is their son and had ruled for 6 years without doing anything for them. What a puerile argument. The truth is that Jonathan was a product of the same enemies of the Ijaw nation who wanted to justify why the Ijaws should never complain about marginalization. In the real sense marginalization of a nationality does not end simply because your ethnic person is in power when the fundamental principles that spur social and economic forms of repression and inequalities can never be changed by the single effort of a man brought to power solely to protect the same set of corrupt and irresponsible leaders.



ONAC said most people criticizing the violent youth groups have failed to admit the carnage that extreme poverty, hopelessness and collapse of the moral authority of successive bankrupt regimes could unleash on the human psychology of the younger generation of Nigerians.

“Most of the people calling for violent clampdown see the Niger-Delta avengers as irritants and miscreants without wondering why the Nigerian system continuously produce such a set of people even as University graduates. Most of these critics are older and comfortable people who have crossed the poverty line and have secured their families either in Nigeria or abroad,. They are so foolish, parochial, naïve and self centred that they cannot conceive of children of the poor taking up arms against a system that favours them.”

The Niger-Delta needs a comprehensive solution with dialogue being the starting point. The Igbos have the right to cry out. It is legitimate. They have the right to clamour for a country of their own. There was no where Nigerians have ever come together to decide on their constitution or to sit down and agree on the system of governance that meets their values and culture. Nigeria has been sustained by share brute force and naked abuse of power. To wrong this agelong phenomenon is not through intimidation and threats of state-sponsored violence”, ONAC stated.

The group said for the fact that the Yoruba people have not risen up in similar manner should not be mistaken for acquiescence with the system. ‘Everywhere you go in the country, anger and desperation is written. Millions are hungry and leaders are not giving any signs of hope. We have been asked to make sacrifices, but the leaders are not ready to make similar sacrifices and are never ready to give up what they have stolen neither is the legitimately rich ready to contribute to the legitimately poor. “We are in a country where perspectives are defined by personal interests.”

Words of wisdom from the genuine Yoruba (not the faceless rascals we encounter on NL everyday).

Those are the real image of Yoruba not the ass licking born to follow zombies that are in here .

I just like the intelligent ones among Yoruba people....

They're always Reasonable

Lets go back to regionlism or the system of leadership practise in the UK, USA and UAE... How hard can that be?

why are FRSC so wicked like this pls check this thread for me [graphic pix] www.nairaland.com/3142772/how-generosity-landed-me-into#46241285

"Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid" (Proverbs 12:1). A word is enough for the wise.

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Words of wisdom written in a marble.

Curlieweed:
Words of wisdom from the genuine Yoruba (not the faceless rascals we encounter on NL everyday).

The Real Yoruba. So smart we Igbo have to continually up our game to keep up.