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Yoruba Group Plans Mega Support Rally For Separate Nation In Ibadan
- Oduduwa Republic, a group advocating for a separate Yoruba country, announced the planned march on its Twitter account on Tuesday.
Agitations for the creation of the Yoruba country, the Oduduwa Republic, have picked up steam again, with plans in the works for a mega rally in Ibadan on April 17.
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Oduduwa Republic, a group advocating for a separate Yoruba country, announced the planned march on its Twitter account on Tuesday.
Prof Banji Akintoye, the global leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua, was named as the father of the day in a flier posted on the page.
The party has repeatedly called for the secession of the South-West states from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, along with others.
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As calls for secession have grown, calls for restructuring and constitutional changes have gradually faded into the background.
On Saturday, Akintoye said there would be no turning back on the Oduduwa Republic’s actualization.
He described the Yoruba as a civilised people who could not continue with the barbarism of the alleged Fulani people who have been keeping Nigeria hostage, adding that only Ethiopia could be older in terms of civilization than the Yoruba.
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The upcoming Oduduwa Republic, according to the don, will carry on the civilization agenda of the late Western Region Premier, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
He also claimed that the Oduduwa Republic’s independence would be accomplished peacefully rather than by war.
“There is no nation in tropical Africa that is older and also more civilised than the Yoruba nation, except perhaps Ethiopia.
“We are going to continue the civilization nation-building that the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo wanted to continue in the 1950s, which we have been doing for years. We cannot remain in Nigeria, where the Fulani have driven the majority of us into barbarism.
“The Yoruba people are a civilized people.” Our country was better prepared to obtain education than any tropical nation when the white man arrived in the middle of the nineteenth century and started to spread Christianity through education, so missionaries in any part of Africa had to station themselves in the bush and begin searching for people to teach. In Yorubaland, however, our situation was different.
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