WERE READY FOR DISSOLUTION OF NIGERIA ,says Oodua group O’Odua Nationalist Coalition, (ONAC) has said that the Yoruba youths are ready for the dissolution of Nigeria as proposed by some Northern youths few days ago. The Pan-Yoruba group asked people of Hausa-Fulani extraction living in the South West to quit the region saying that the quit notice was an act of proportional response to the ultimatum given to Southerners, including the Yoruba to quit the Islamic North within the next two weeks. ONAC said the dissolution of Nigeria is in the interest of the Yoruba masses but may not be in the interests of mercantile politicians and self-seeking business men and women who are rich enough to provide means that lift them above the human misery facing the Yoruba nation, arising from the contradictions of the country Nigeria. “We urge Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri people in Yorubaland in the states of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Ekiti, Kwara, Kogi, Akoko Edo, Itsekiri and Osun to leave without any further delay. If our people are being asked to quit the North, it follows that the aggressors also need to leave our land to create opportunities for Yoruba people coming back home from the North, ONAC said in a statement issued after the group’s meeting held in Ibadan on Sunday. The Pan-Yoruba group said it welcomed the position of the Northern youths during a rally in Kano where the organizers called for the peaceful dissolution of Nigeria. “This is a welcome development. All along, we have been living in denial that we are one country. We are not one and Nigerians can never have a common destiny. It is time to call it quit with a century of marriage that has seen more of unending misery and calamities both for the bride and the bridegroom. We support the peaceful dissolution of Nigeria. That is the right step to the freedom and liberation of all the ethnic groups tin Nigeria that have been in perpetual bondage since the 1914 amalgamation.” ONAC said it believes that the statement by the Northern youths represent only the feelings of the Hausa-Fulani and Kanuri stock, saying that the Northern youths lack the legitimacy to speak for Northern minorities who have been perpetually oppressed by the core North. ONAC said the two week ultimatum given by Hausa-Fulani has confirmed the fear that the bomb attacks on most parts of the North were pre-conceived and targeted against people of southern extraction. The ONAC’s Head of Internal Affairs, Major Kareem Ogunade who signed the statement urged Yoruba and southerners to take the threat serious adding that giving the increasing rate of bombing, the kidnapping of young girls and the air of terror in the North, the threat by the Northern youths is real. “The Yoruba people have lost many people to the series of attacks in the North for the past 100 years since Nigeria was amalgamated by the British. These attacks were common during the reign of National leaders of Hausa-Fulani extraction. However, since 1999, when Southerners have had the opportunity of ruling the country, the attacks on innocent Yoruba and Southerners generally have become more ferocious. The victims include Yoruba Muslims and Christians, meaning that ethnicity is one of the major underlining factors responsible for the violent bombings,” Ogunade stated.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:15:28 +0000
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