There Is No Basis For The Proscription Of Yoruba Nation Group – Akintoye

• …Ilana Omo Oodua was not a terrorist group but a peaceful self-determination association with a belief in referendum and sensitisation through rallies.

Yoruba Nation agitator, Prof Banji Akintoye, has said that there is no basis for the Federal Government to outlaw his Yoruba Nation secessionist group.

The erudite professor of History disclosed this while reacting to a statement issued by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), that the government is considering all options against the Yoruba Nation separatist group including its proscription.

Akintoye, through his Communications Manager, Maxwell Adeleye, said that the government of the President Buhari-led administration, won’t want to descend so low to outlaw the Yoruba Nation group.

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According to him, Ilana Omo Oodua was not a terrorist group but a peaceful self-determination association with a belief in referendum and sensitisation through rallies.

“There is no basis for the proscription of Ilana Omo Oodua. The government can only proscribe a terrorist group and not a peaceful group like Ilana Omo Oodua. All our members arrested in Ojota (area in Lagos), were charged with disturbance of public peace but later released. Why weren’t they charged with treasonable felony or murder?

“If the government proscribes us, we are going to challenge it in the court of law because we have committed no offence. It is an organisation that believes in peaceful agitation for self-determination. We even released a manual on peaceful agitation for self-determination as authored by our Leader, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye.

“I do not think the Nigerian government will descend so low to proscribe a peaceful organisation like Ilana Omo Oodua. Professor Akintoye has released a formal statement that he is not afraid of arrest and that he is coming to Nigeria soon,” he told The PUNCH.

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