A Yoruba socio-political group, Ilana Omo Oodua has described President Muhammadu Buhari as a sectional president, that of Northern Nigeria.
The group in a reaction to the Independence Day broadcast of the President on 1st October said: “(President) Buhari has further exposed himself as the President of the North, and not that of Nigerians. He has succeeded in emboldening us more to fight on in the agitation for self-determination for the Yoruba people.
“It is a total nonsense that (President) Buhari is bothered about a Sunday Igboho who is engaged in a lawful agitation, endorsed and confirmed now by a court of competent jurisdiction, United Nations and African Union Declarations on Peoples and Human Rights while he (Buhari) looked away on the murderous activities of the Fulani herdsmen terrorists and Miyyetii Allah in the South and Middle-Belt territories.”
A statement signed by the group’s Communication Secretary, Maxwell Adeleye, made available to Rulers’ World, further states that: “Mr President said an unknown sitting member of the Nigerian National Assembly is involved in the funding of Sunday Igboho. That’s absolute mendacity. The Yoruba people, from village to village, to the Diaspora, are contributing their hard-earned resources to oil and sustain the agitation.
“Our appeal to (President) Buhari is to, as a matter of urgency, name the invisible national assembly member so that the Yoruba People can celebrate him because he is supporting a noble struggle, If indeed such a National Assembly member exists, though unknown to us in Ilana Omo Oodua. We say, expressly, that he is a hero that has chosen to stand by a legitimate, legal and constitutional agitation. Therefore, (President) Buhari is merely grandstanding.
“As (President) Buhari names the unknown National Assembly member, our utmost appeal to him is to help Nigerians in naming those funding murderous Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram terrorists oppressing, maiming, killing and raping his people in the North and the people of the South and Middle-Belt with impunity.
“The entire speech of (President) Buhari symbolises hopelessness and chaos. It was a declaration of war against the peace-loving people of Yoruba land. Our message to him is that we shall not be intimidated. We shall remain loyal and committed to our struggle for an independent Yoruba nation. We shall be undaunted. No oppressor has ever triumphed over the people. In this struggle, we shall continue to be legitimate and peaceful. It is amandla awetu, nothing shall discourage us.”
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