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The former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has opted for a name change for the entire South West, urging them to reject the name "Yoruba" as it is allen to the original people of the land.

In his verified twitter handle, Femi Fani-Kayode
@realFFK, dated October 21, 2019, the former minister stated that it was the Fulani's who coined the name to cajole the South West but ignorantly the people allowed it and it stayed.

"Two names that the Fulani gave to southerners: "Yamiri", in reference to SE and "YAR-IBA" in reference to SW. The SE rejected that name but the SW accepted it. The name "Yoruba" derives from "Yar-iba" and it means "shady and unreliable". I reject that strange name and label...
".... I am not a "YA-RIBA" or "Yoruba" but an "Omo Karo Jire" or an "Oduduwan" and my lanuage is not "Yoruba" but "Anago". We are what we call ourselves. We are not "shady and uneliable"(Yoruba) and we must not accept names that are given to us by our historical adversaries..."

Fani-Kayode warned that any South Westerner that continues to call himself "Yoruba" should count himself lost.

".....Any Omo Karo Jire or Oduduwan that continues to call himself a "Yoruba" is lost and does not know the implications of what he is doing to his own people. He is simply affirming and confirming an insulting label which has deep sinister, mystical and spiritual connotations..."

He further explained that the word "Yoruba" was not known but after the 18th century.

"......The word "Yoruba" did not even exist until the 18th century and even then most of the tribes of the SW, including the Oyo's, rejected it due to its origin and meaning. The word "Yoruba" is alien to our culture and not known in the Anago language. Oduduwans please take note."

Many twitter users are reacting to this with so many lending support to his position. The question that is begging us for an answer is: are there other prominent south western people that share this thought? Is Fani-Kayode right on this? Do we have more facts to back this up so that we can truly trace our origin and be the people we should be?

*** Lalasticala, other mods take note.

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Thatssobeyonce:
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What is "use"? Is that a comment or correction?

Na una wahala be dat. If una like, make una change am to Ewedugerians. Y'all are just as confounded as the Igbos. Today, they are Biafrans, tomorrow they are Jews, next Zeus is their progenitor.

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ObaKlaz:
Na una wahala be dat. If una like, make una change am to Ewedugerians. Y'all are just as confounded as the Igbos. Today, they are Biafrans, tomorrow they are Jews, next Zeus is their progenitor.

ObaKlaz:
Na una wahala be dat. If una like, make una change am to Ewedugerians. Y'all are just as confounded as the Igbos. Today, they are Biafrans, tomorrow they are Jews, next Zeus is their progenitor.

Some people own worse pass... They have no identity... If you can comfortably state your tribe here, then you'll be taken serious...

Where are these mods? Come and push this to frontpage, biko.