₦airaland Forum

aminulive:
A pan Yoruba socio-cultural group known as Afenifere has weighed in on the recent calls for the re-arrest of the Leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra(IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.

In a recent interview with Punch, the national publicity secretary of the group, Yinka Odumakin implied that only people from the Northern region of the country seek the re-arrest of Kanu.

He said;

To start with, experience has shown that arrest cannot resolve the question of self-determination. Two years ago, who knew Nnamdi Kanu? Maybe he was just on the Internet or Radio Biafra. But when he was arrested and detained for over a year he became popular.

You realise today that when he is addressing crowds in the South-East, thousands gather and follow (him). They (government) made him popular. If they rearrest him, they are going to further popularise him and bring into focus the issues he is fighting for. Why don’t they deal with the issues, solve the nationality question and render his achievements ineffective? His arrest will not resolve the matter. Even if they sentence Kanu to death today, another person will rise — once they refuse to resolve the matter.

On the other hand, when you talk about the rule of law, that lady that symbolises justice is blindfolded. The essence of that is, she is no respecter of persons — she delivers justice to whoever offends the law. But then, you begin to go after Kanu and some people get up in Arewa land to say leave our land. The Kaduna governor says, ‘Go and arrest them.’

The vice president says, ‘Arrest them.’ The minister of interior then says, ‘No, they said they were misquoted.’ The thing the minister said they were misquoted on, they sat with governors from the North to say they were suspending the order (notice to quit given to Igbo in the North), and they were holding a press conference in Sheraton.

In fact, one of the (Arewa) youths, when they were looking for them, said, ‘If I’m declared wanted, I will give myself up.’ Even (for security agents) to invite them for a 30-minute chat and let them go, they didn’t do that. When you refuse to do that, you create problems for the rule of law; you show that there’s a double standard. That is not how to build an inclusive country.

Not that we endorse everything that Kanu is doing, but we are saying in order not to overheat the polity, what we need now is (for the Federal Government) to address the issues that have given rise to agitations. If we begin the process of restructuring this country, the separatist groups will be at bay. But if we don’t address these issues, you’re giving them, added energy.

When asked about Kanu's violation of his bail conditions, Odumakin said;

When you are granted bail, that is not the end of the matter. The bail means you can go home while the case continues. They have a case in court; let them go to the court. It goes beyond the whole question of courts. Kanu has not been put before the court for killing anybody, burning property or doing anything wrong. All they are taking him to court for is for statements they said he made.

Arewa youths made statements that threatened the unity of the country; they (government) said they should be arrested. The police did not arrest them. The minister of interior came out and started making excuses that the youths said they were misquoted.

Why didn’t he say Kanu said he was misquoted? Now, those who are in favour of (Kanu’s) re-arrest are from the same section of the country where the Arewa youths come from. People can begin to draw insinuations that they are quick to ask for Kanu’s re-arrest because he is not from their section of the country, while they are shielding those who are from their section of the country. That’s why I’m talking about inclusiveness. So, it goes beyond taking Kanu to court. It’s on the basis of the same question of what Kanu said that they arrested him in the first place.  Arewa youths made pronouncements that threatened the unity of Nigeria.

To date, the police could not invite them for a chat; (not) even to take them to a five-star hotel and interrogate them over drinks, pepper soup and groundnuts. To let them be roaming free and even for the minister of interior to be making very lame and unintelligent excuses for them — what kind of country are you building? The boys never said they were misquoted.

When they suspended their notice to quit, they repeated everything they said. That minister should have resigned by now. We are not holding the fort for Kanu at all. We are saying if you want to apply the law, you must apply it evenly; not a law for a section and another law for another section. That cannot work. In fact, that will create more problems and give more sympathy to Kanu.

http://politicsngr.com/2017/09/03/northerners-want-nnamdi-kanu-re-arrested-afenifere/

ZKOSOSO:
Cos they are the Chief beneficiaries of the injustices in the Land.

They Hate Merit. Hate Hardwork. Hate Truth. Hate Justice.

Only Love oppression...

Kazim88:
Take it or leave it, Core Northerners are actually impersonating Yorubas in Nairaland to fan the feud between the south.

tayebest:
When he (Kanu) was arrested by the zoo keeper, who dare to come out for the yeeebhoes??

Kazim88:
Because Yoruba and Middle Belters have since port to freedom....

Core North are actually on their own. Yet they don't know it.

abouzaid:
a Yoruba won't call secession "succession". a true Yoruba would recognise Igbo's freedom to seek pursuit of Happiness through every means including secession, a true Yoruba is independent minded and self reliant, He's not a unity beggar.

Kazim88:
Take it or leave it, Core Northerners are actually impersonating Yorubas in Nairaland to fan the feud between the south.

Kazim88:
Take it or leave it, Core Northerners are actually impersonating Yorubas in Nairaland to fan the feud between the south.

SonOfAfonja:
Very true.....Afenifere is a group filled with Political Jobbers and do not represent the YORUBA people....

Tenkobos:
In other words, Yoruba people have rejected Sarraki. Who tell you Sarkki or whatever he call himself is a youruba man.





Terrible.

omohayek:
And how do you know any of these people are actually Yoruba in the first place? Just how difficult do you think it is to open a new Nairaland account and claim to be from any part of the country, the planet or even the galaxy? What's stopping me from saying I am a Zeta Reticulan from Alpha Centauri?

The real people to blame are all the gullible id.iots who ignore the statements of well-known Yoruba politicians, writers and activists in support of restructuring and decentralization, but are quick to seize on statements by individual anonymous commenters or unknown "youth" groups as "proof" of what most Yoruba people must be thinking: you pretend Afenifere, Fayose, Fani-Kayode and Wole Soyinka are only speaking for themselves, but need no convincing that "sarrki" and other anonymous "One Nigeria" diehards were elected by all Yorubas as their legitimate online representatives, even though these people probably aren't even Yoruba to begin with!

There's a term for such thinking: it's called confirmation bias, and it's what you get when raging anti-Yoruba tribalists go out of their way to look for "evidence" to support the prejudices they probably imbibed with their mothers' milk, well before ever even meeting any Yoruba people.

captleonerd:
afenifere is always making the mistake of trying to speak for all yorubas without proper consultation. same mistake they made in 2015 when they promised Jonathan Yoruba votes.

clowns

Alexis11:
Do you really expect all the Yorubas to support Kanu after all his derogatory remark, abuse and violence against the Yorubas? If somebody had said this about your tribe, will you still be his fan

Or you want to say you didn't hear all these on Radio Biafra, YouTube videos and Facebook posts?

odduduwa:
but ohaneze ndi Igbo speaks for ndi Igbo right?

Wiseandtrue:
[s]But the same Oduduwa are also pretending to speak for Kanu

It is precisely of this behaviour of sitting on the fence that has made other tribes heap insults on the Yorubas

That was why the northerners also insulted my brethren from the south west the other day! It's not only Kanu my dear.

If Kanu was playing politics the way you guys were, all tribes will not be bold enough to demand for genuine restructuring today!

Stop hiding! Take responsibility for your actions!

There is a saying that says it's only a coward that attacks from the back![/s]

Sagay212:
ipod criminal pig..your master will be arrested soon and when he is arrested, you can join him in kuje to show solidarity.

NgeneUkwenu:
PDP Afenifere...The Same group that adopted Jonathan, as presidential Candidate in 2015


When asked about Kanu's violation of his bail conditions, Odumakin said;




You see the above? The PDP apologist couldn't must a coherent answer.....

Kazim88:
Staying Neutral would cost Yoruba alot.

Let me give you my prediction.

Soon, Very soon... The North would allow biafra go out of frustration and the political heat the matter is generating.

At that point it would be too late for Yoruba to break out... or to cry restructuring.
Even a referendum for Oduduwa is not guaranteed to reach even 45%

tayebest:
[s][/s]


You really said more than this last year!


....and guess what?






NOBODY REALLY GIVE A FUCCCK!