Rotimi Akeredolu
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the apex leadership of the umbrella body of Yoruba self-determination groups, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, on Tuesday backed the call by the Chairman of Southwest Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), for people of Yoruba extraction to consume chickens and home-grown goats at social functions instead of “health-threatened” cows.
Ilana Omo Oodua, led by Professor Banji Akintoye, said it agrees with Akeredolu that “N2.5billion is taken out of the Yoruba economy daily to develop the North which is not economically commonsensical.”
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In a statement signed by the Deputy to Alana-in-Council of the organisation, Professor Wale Adeniran, sighted by this reporter, the group said Yoruba people should start developing the ideology of ‘Grow What You Consume’.
The statement reads in part: “Ilana Omo Oodua hereby salutes Arakunrin Akeredolu on the statement credited to him in this regard, and we hereby give his call our unalloyed support. We commend the Governor for this bold, patriotic and visionary statement, and urge our people to need the call.
“Ilana Omo Oodua wishes to add that the people of the South-West should, in addition to chicken, resort to other sources of protein such as our local goats, our local sheep, fish, snail, rabbit, duck, turkey and grasscutter (òyà) for ceremonies and daily consumption.”
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