₦airaland Forum

BATified2023:
To you supporting ipob candidate out of ignorance I believe u can see their hidden agenda now?

If this guy could tell his kinsmen to remain in asylum cos they are Muslims don’t u think he will do worse to u who isn’t related to him in any means

Many of u are following ipob propaganda n ipob plan B (peter obi) due to ignorance,your eye go clear later

People who kill their own brothers cos of a contrary opinion will not hesitate to waste u without blinking an eye

Okoroawusa:
Igbo Muslims are being haunted down. Most of them now prefer living in Kaduna, Abuja, Kogi, Plateau and Benue

Leader of the Yoruba Self-Determination Struggle, Professor Banji Akintoye has urged President Muhammadu Buhari for a direct negotiation towards the realization of Yoruba nation’s self-determination and the establishment of sovereign nation-state.


According to a letter signed by Akintoye, under the name of a United States of America based Foundation called Yoruba Self-Determination Movement (YSDM), on behalf of the Yoruba people, he said that the movement want the Nigerian government to set up negotiation team that will meet and dialogue with Yoruba nation’s representatives not later than Friday September 30, 2022.


Akintoye said that thjre process became necessary considering the false hope of unity promoted by the British colonial officials and imposed on all at Independence has not been achievable in the past sixty years of Independence.
The letter reads: “Rather, not only has unity proved impossible to achieve, outright anarchy has taken over.

We Yoruba therefore seek to discontinue our association with Nigeria, and to do so in an orderly and peaceful manner.
“Because we are an ancient civilization with solid modern achievements in education today, and a people with an old tradition of accepting and interacting smoothly and productively with various peoples throughout our history, we can live harmoniously with ethnic and cultural diversity in the same country.

But we have painfully concluded that sustained attacks by one ethnic group on us and other ethnic groups in the same country, and a plan of conquest and subjugation by one ethnic group against the other groups in the same country, represent a conclusive negation of the existence and legitimacy of Nigeria.   

We can no longer bear the pain and indignity of living in constant fear and mourning, like a conquered and subjugated people, in our homeland.


“We have been attacked by heavily armed marauders and militias, who have been invading our homeland for many years from the Northern part of the country of Nigeria to which we belong.

These marauders have relentlessly killed our people, destroying farms and villages, raping and killing our women, kidnapping our people, and extorting large amounts of money for ransom.


“There are no official numbers for our Yoruba people who have been violently killed in these atrocities (because the government shows no real concern about the killings), but a rough estimate of 29, 000 is now generally circulating among us, an estimate which many of our people believe to be too low. (It is important that even the Sultan of Sokoto has once said that the killings across the country are being under-reported). These atrocities have forced an estimated majority of our farmers to abandon farming altogether a development that is now pulling our nation down into a devastating famine, and into unimaginable poverty.


“Meanwhile, in what we Yoruba believe to be the preparation for this final Fulani aggression in our Yoruba homeland part of Nigeria, tens of thousands of heavily armed Fulani mujaheedin, reinforced by Boko Haram, ISWAP, Al Qaida and Al Shabaab terrorists, have occupied countless locations in our Yoruba forests and are being supplied there with food and weapons by air from hidden sources in Northern Nigeria.

“Mr. President, we therefore dutifully draw your attention to the fact that since we launched our agitation for our Yoruba nation’s self-determination in the year 2019, we have unfailingly pursued the agitation through peaceful means. Our people have established over one hundred self-determination organizations, each solemnly committed to contributing in peaceful and law-abiding ways to our self-determination agitation.

“The Yoruba Self-Determination Movement (YSDM) respectfully writes this letter to you for and on behalf of the indigenous Yoruba people of the southwest of Nigeria, inclusive of the Yoruba citizens of the six states of the Yoruba southwest zone (Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo States ) and the Yoruba citizens of parts of Kogi, Kwara and Delta States, all south of the Middle Niger River in Nigeria.

“The Yoruba Self-Determination Movement is a movement comprising well over one hundred Yoruba Self-Determination organizations based at home in the Yoruba homeland in Nigeria and abroad in most countries of the world. The Yoruba Self-Determination Movement collaborates the said many Yoruba Self-Determination organizations in the highest services of the Yoruba Self-Determination agitation and struggle.

“Mr President, the Yoruba Self-Determination Movement now serves you notice of the decision of the Yoruba people to assert their right to self-determination, which right of self-determination is an inalienable and unquestionable right of every indigenous nation in the world, and which right is enshrined in many international instruments that provide for the system of order of the modern world.
Upon asserting this right of self-determination, we Yoruba nation shall be free to determine our political status, pursue our economic, social and cultural development according to policies chosen independently by us, and to live under the government independently chosen and ordered by us.”

Akintoye is trying to use us for political business—Ilana Omo Oodua Source

Reacting to the letter, a member of the popular umbrella and apex body of Yoruba Self-Determination Group, Ilana Omo Oodua, IOO, who spoke to Vanguard in confidence from her base in United Kingdom, accused Akintoye of selling out the organization and struggle to some Yoruba Elites who are mostly in Diaspora and trying to use IOO as a political business.
The source said: “First, the organization we all know as the umbrella body, or call it an apex body for this struggle regardless of what anyone feels is Ilana Omo Oodua. We have individual members and affiliated groups which Akintoye is the leader. We still held our general meeting last Saturday. Ilana Omo Oodua mobilized and galvanized individuals and organizations to make the Yoruba Nation agitation popular all over the world till now but Baba Akintoye chose to use the name of a US based NGO owned by some Yoruba Elites to write a letter to Nigerian Government and not Ilana Omo Oodua whose name is already a threat to the Owners of Nigeria.
“YSDM is a registered foundation in America owned by five people and nowhere an AGM was conducted by Yoruba Self-Determination organizations to appoint the directors of the organization to warrant it being described as the Umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Organizations. Ilana Omo Oodua worked with other individuals and organizations to get to where we are so why throw us out to be used for business and negotiation with President Buhari because he was made the Chairman of a foundation where he’s not even a Director?
“Second thing is that in the letter, Baba Akintoye, after serving Buhari a notice that the Yoruba people want to exercise their rights to self-determination and justified it, is now demanding for a negotiation meeting? Wow. Who does that? How do you request for a negotiation from someone that is oppressing you and has immense advantage over you in terms of power, arms, sovereignty, money and everything?
“What does Akintoye has outside 5 million online petitions that warrants him demanding a negotiation or worthy of being negotiated with outside his media noise? Buhari should be the one to reach out to us for negotiation, not Akintoye asking for a negotiation. What Akintoye did was against the run of play. When Buratai visited Sunday Igboho in Benin prison for negotiation, he did not write Nigerian Government for a negotiation, they came and Igboho turned them down. That is what is called a fighter and activist.
“The fact is Akintoye merely want to meet Buhari and Tinubu for a political business meeting and he knew that cannot be achieved that under Ilana Omo Oodua hence shifted to the organization of his fellow Elites whom he has sold us to. For instance, his Deputy in YSDM is a former Commissioner and Governorship aspirant in Ondo-State, Banji Ayiloge. For the first time in this struggle, Professor Banji Akintoye described himself as a former Nigerian Senator to Buhari. Baba wants to do business and get his due from the Nigerian Government. This is about 2023 electoral game. I will talk more in future.”
“Lastly, Baba Akintoye said in his letter that no referendum, because five million people have signed an online petition. I am of the opinion that Baba is inviting the Nigerian Government to clampdown on the agitators at home because all the proponents of this no referendum campaign are not based in Nigeria. Baba Akintoye himself, his wife, all his children and that of Banji Ayiloge are not based in Nigeria. So they have nothing to lose. I appeal to my Yoruba people to give themselves brain.”

References to Biafran separatist agitation must end. Separation requires a prior act of joinder. But no Biafran ever voted to join Nigeria. It was forced down their throats with UK machine guns and continues with Fulani genocidal terror. Agitation to redress injustice is a duty.

Fulani controlled Nigeria frantically screams at Google to censor free speech of IPOB recognized in UN Working Group decision demanding MNK’s immediate and unconditional release. Fulani terrified of debate because their vocabulary restricted to two words: violence and bribery.

Tingotoe:
Aren't you supposed to be COMMANDING me to be obidient? I mean it's really pathetic how you guys switched from Kanu as the messiah to Obi the savior

Tingotoe:
I trust Buhari to turn a deaf ear to the UN rights group and by the way it's not the UN that asked the FG to release Kanu but it's human rights organization , and this group has made dozens of such demands on various nation states to release various political prisoners' jailed over the years. All have fallen on deaf ears. They will most likely be ignored

It is unacceptable to Nigeria and Nigerians, and in particular to the North, that the United Nations will endorse the platform and space to be used by Kanu and IPOB in promoting anarchy

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has commended the United Nations, UN, for asking the Nigerian Government to release its leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

IPOB expressed hope that the Nigerian Government would comply with the call and release Kanu.

The UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention had called on the Nigerian Government to release Kanu unconditionally.

The body also charged the Nigerian Government to compensate Kanu over the illegal extra-ordinary rendition of Kanu from Kenya.

However, the spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, said: “We, the global and noble family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) under the supreme leadership of Onyendu Mazi Nnamdi Kanu wish to express our profound gratitude to the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention for their courage in reaching the decision contained in Opinion No 25th July, 2022 concerning the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) worldwide which opinion comports with the tenets of international laws.

“The opinion of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detentionspecifically indicted the Nigerian and Kenyan governments for the kidnap and extraordinary rendition of our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu while directing the Government of Nigeria to remedy the situation by releasing Mazi Nnamdi Kanu unconditionally and to compensate him for the abuse and persecution he has been and continue to be put through.

“Our commendation also goes to our legal advisers and all thosewho quietly labored and assisted in achieving this landmark victory. It is indeed a great milestone for our Leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the IPOB and Biafrans worldwide.

“It is our hope that Nigeria, as a member of the United Nations, will take heed and promptly obey and implement the UN directives already transmitted to it to the letter. We caution that this is not a Nigerian court decision or order that is often flagrantly disobeyed without consequences.”

KingKO22:
You marginalized and deprived yourselves


The same mistakes yur elders made that led to demise of millions of people is the same route your are plying

Politics of bitterness nd hatred is what's marginalizing you people.

Vulturereloaded:
Useless IPOB. Can anyone name 1 thing Igbo's have gained from Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB?

Bruce Fein, American lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu, the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has said the Nigerian government ought to be the ones on trial, not Kanu.

Fein in a release obtained by SaharaReporters on Thursday stated that what the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, was doing with his troops in Ukraine was “tea party” compared to what the Muhammadu Buhari government “is inflicting on the Biafran leader and Biafra.”


The IPOB leader has been detained in the facility of Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services, for over 10 months having been arrested since June 27, 2021.

He had been arraigned several times before the Federal High Court, Abuja over charges of treason, treasonable felony, terrorism, and illegal possession of firearms, among others, with the latest court sitting on Wednesday.

The court, on Wednesday, had declined to grant bail to the detained IPOB leader.

Justice Binta Nyako had held that Kanu must explain the reason why he breached the previous bail that was given to him before he could enjoy another favourable discretion from the court.

Reacting in a statement on Thursday, Fein said Kanu should not be the one facing trial; rather it should be the Nigerian government. 

He said, “The Fulani-controlled government of Nigeria should be on trial, not Nnamdi Kanu. The former’s prosecution of the latter turns the law on its head—from an instrument of justice to a weapon of oppression. 

“Judicial notice can be taken of the following: The Nigerian government attempted to assassinate Nnamdi Kanu in September 2017 for exercising his constitutional and international law right to self-determination by the people of Biafra. 

“The Abia High Court has awarded MNK N5billion in damages for the violation. The attempted assassination disqualifies the Nigerian government from prosecuting MNK for lack of impartiality required by due process and international law.

“The Nigerian government continues to deny the people of Biafra their unalienable right to self-determination enshrined in jus cogens (mandatory) international law and Article 1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

“The Nigerian government conspired with the Government of Kenya to kidnap and torture Nnamdi Kanu in June 2021. The Nigerian government conspired with the Government of Kenya to subject Nnamdi Kanu to extraordinary rendition to Abuja, Nigeria, in violation of international law and relevant extradition treaties.

“Since his criminal extraordinary rendition, Nnamdi Kanu has been denied access to counsel of his choice in violation of international human rights law and the Nigerian Constitution—including myself on multiple occasions.

“The Nigerian government speaking through Chief Judge Tosho had authorised a secret trial of Nnamdi Kanu in hopes of concealing its planned criminal judicial murder of the defendant.

“The Nigerian government has denied MNK a universally recognised presumption of innocence by punishing him with 11 months of cruel imprisonment without a crumb of admissible evidence of guilt submitted to a court of law. The Nigerian government has denied MNK a right to a trial within a reasonable time after detention despite its army of law enforcement resources by compounding delay upon delay for nearly a year and scampering away from a hard trial date.

“To underscore the stupendous magnitude of the Buhari-Malami-Nyako triumvirate’s denial of MNK’s international law and constitutional rights, a comparison with the due process received by Nazi leaders accused of the most unspeakable crimes in the history of mankind by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg is instructive. 

“The Nazi leaders enjoyed access to counsel. MNK has not. The Nazi leaders enjoyed a presumption of innocence. MNK has not. The Nazi leaders received fair notice of the crimes alleged by the IMT prosecution team. The accusations against MNK are expressed at an infinite level of generality that confounds preparation of a defense.

“The accused Nazi leaders (some of which were acquitted) were tried based upon volumes of authenticated evidence and testimony subject to cross-examination. The Nigerian government has failed to adduce a shred of authenticated evidence or testimony subject to cross-examination—the greatest engine every invented for the discovery or truth.

“The accused Nazi leaders were prosecuted within 8 months after the conclusion of World War II. MNK has yet to receive a trial after 11 months of agonizing detention.

“Nigeria’s merciless lawlessness against MNK should thunder every day like a hammer on an anvil throughout world corridors of power until justice is done. What Russian President Putin is doing in Ukraine is a tea party compared to what the villainous Nigerian triumvirate is inflicting on the Biafran leader and Biafra. International ostracism and boycotts should be forthcoming accordingly.”

pquaver:
Did you say choose. Abeg please where did Igbos choose ipob in the first place as their representative in Biafra matters?

udele1:
Sure. This is exactly what Biafra looks like.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW4m7nSGYKs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pypYs0y1E34


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h81JIDMG0c


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHwOTa0Vlro

udele1:
Sure. This is exactly what Biafra looks like.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW4m7nSGYKs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pypYs0y1E34


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h81JIDMG0c


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHwOTa0Vlro

udele1:
Tomorrow they will want a country to bring their embassy to a region controlled by criminals. Or foreign investor to look in that area for investment.

Angelparadise:
Use your Senses when posting information. It was the new sex charges that was strike but the seven former charges till continue.

Lordofalmajiri:
See your rotten mouth like Almost the same thing.
I pray to don't be this stupid in your next Life. Anu mpam

Lordofalmajiri:
Shut up OGA , he's not from Asaba but okpanam. Ewu Gambia

beerfraud:
Thank you Justice Mazi Ikemba Binta Nyako
Treat him like Boko Haram terrorist

helinues:


1 month straight sit at home... That man Buhari that is in far away Abuja must feel the heat with the long sit at home

Reality3080:
if what is happening now in south east is d definition of bravery then I reject it for yorubas

How can u b killing yourself n u believe u are hurting d government

jerseyboy:
IGBO INVASION OF NIGER DELTA
A REPEAT OF WHAT OJUKWU DID IN AUGUST 1967 TO DIVASTATING CONSEQUENCES TO BIAFRA

Reality3080:
yorubas are wiser than that n stop comparing igbos way of solving problems with Yoruba

We all had herdsmen crisis,u can see how yorubas settled it reasonably n don’t forget u are still killing yourselves till now on top that

beerfraud:
na today Nigerian Army dey suyalized IPOB terrorists?

beerfraud:
Nigerian army do dey try it since

jmoore:
[s]IPOB terrorists!!

The court will keep adjourning the case.

FG made a big mistake by deporting Nnamdi Kanu from Kenya.

They could have locked him up in a secret detention centre in Sahara desert.

Or take him out and dump his body in the ocean. Then act like they know nothing about it.

IPOB terror attacks escalated when the government announced they arrested Nnamdi Kanu.


End IPOB to save the lives of Igbo people.[/s]

beerfraud:
Put all of them behind bar and sentence them to face firing squad

Mooh247:
And Arewa youths issued them quite notice to get the fvck Outta their states yet SouthEast elders keep begging while you Politicians never raise referendum motion

What other motivation do you need to go?! In Sokoto your traders got attacked for something that doesn't even concern you, Sabongari Kano you saw what happened

Zonefree:
Remove Skullarship, SW and Haiti will be on the same level.

Mooh247:
Why did you retract your own figure

You also showed 9 oil producing state with Lagos so why are you disturbing gan gann