On Thursday, Yoruba leaders warned they would have no option but to secede from the Nigerian union if the Fulani invaders continue to threaten their farmlands and livelihoods. This threat is worrisome considering that the Yoruba ethnic nationality, though have had occasions where it considered secession from Nigeria such as during the first republic independence vote and during the MKO Abiola election annulment, it has not as much as carried out the threat.
The Igbo, another large ethnic group in the south, in 1967 asserted their right to self-determination and right to exist as a distinct race and nation, by proclaiming the Republic of Biafra. The Eastern political leaders such as Emeka Ojukwu, Michael Okpara, SG Akpan, Philip Effiong, Mokwugo Okoye etc were hopeful that other ethnicities in the region such as Efik-Ibibio, Ijaw, Ogoni, Ogoja, Ugep etc will accept in a UN monitored plebiscite to be part of the new nation because of the similarities in culture, history and political orientation of these groups- they are all republican, democratic-decision making, clan-living or acephalous societies. This was not to be as the General Gowon-led Nigerian government would have none of it. And with collaboration of ‘economic interest’-protecting Britain, Egypt, Russia, and other Arabic states rained bullets, blockaded and strafed Biafra during a three year civil war to force the Biafrans back to the country.
The major deciders of that war were the Yoruba officers. Had Yoruba decided to work for their own independent or at least remained neutral, Biafra would have emerged as one of the strongest global nations today. Yoruba sons such as Victor Banjo- who at Ore sabotaged the Biafran Lagos incursion to free the South West from northern officers, Adekunle-who adopted strategies of war criminal and ordered killing of civilians, Alani Akinrinade-who discovered some routes from the ocean through Onne and to the Igbo heartland, Olusegun Obasanjo –who received the instrument of Biafran surrender etc.
The Yoruba have always wanted the preservation of Nigeria while some idealist segments advocate a regional-system for the country. During the 2015 general election, it took the Yoruba political segment aligned with the Hausa-Fulani political group for power to be wrestled from the Igbo-backed Goodluck Jonathan regime. In that battle, the Yoruba reached into their deep control of the media, international propaganda connections, deep intellectual prowess and cultural or religious (Islamic) similarities with the Hausa- Fulani to change the government.
Now let me give you some sacrifices by the Yoruba:
i) Some Yorubas such as Col Fajuiyi, Prof Soyinka etc stood and suffered for the Igbo before and during the Nigerian civil war
ii) The Yoruba, who are as progressive as the Igbo, have always supported Igbo agitation for political restructuring of Nigeria to give room for true federalism. This has caused them as much suspicion from the Hausa Fulani as they have for the Igbo (see Confab deliberations).
iii) The Yoruba like the Igbo are spread out around the country- though they don’t invest as much
iv) They have allowed their sons and daughters to intermarry with others
v) The Yoruba have lent their sea ports for Nigeria thereby making them the second cash cow for the country’s economic support after oil (My Igbo brothers will argue that the activities done in these ports are 80 percent driven by businessmen from the East)
vi) Yoruba territories bear more of the brunt for heavy duty, trucks and economic activities especially for goods going east and north (My Igbo brothers I know you will argue that Onitsha Upper Iweka, Enugu 9th Mile etc bear same brunt)
vii) Yoruba’s Lagos contribute more VAT than other states of Nigeria
viii) The Yoruba are providing spiritual reformation for Nigeria as most of the ten most influential Christian leaders are Yoruba. (Adeboye, Oyedepo, Kumuyi etc {My Igbo brothers will argue that because majority of the Igbos in four of the seven states- Anambra, Enugu, Imo, and Delta are Catholics and Anglicans supervised from Rome and the Vatican only Muoka, Okonkwo and few others are major Pentecostal leaders})
ix) The Yoruba have provided the intellectual backbone for Nigeria
x) Obasanjo rigged out Awolowo a fellow Yoruba for Hausa Fulani's Shehu Shagari to become President in 1979
I believe Yoruba secession will serve the objectives of the East which have always believed that Nigeria is a fraud of the British against black Africa where a coerced people will forever be dependent, never realize their destiny and remain in perpetual fear of and actual ethno-religious annihilation.
With all these, I guess Yoruba secession warning would make more impact and threaten Nigeria the more because the feudalist Hausa-Fulani would have no southern ally to whip others in line. This will bring the Nigerian federation crumbling down. This we do not want to see.

Isorite

Yoruba wey be cowards

ernesty20:
Yoruba wey be cowards

wetin dis stupid flat'head dey yab

And like Sanusi said" the Yorubas are the problem of Nigeria"

Mumu

haffaze777:

wetin dis stupid flat'head dey yab

ernesty20:
Mumu

flat'head maga

Yea,sacrifices like killin 3million innocent biafran infants 2 keep same nigeria one!

haffaze777:

flat'head maga

silly kid

ernesty20:
silly kid

show me ur flat'head jawe

ernesty20:
silly kid

show me ur flat'head jawe

He said after working for the emergence of President Mohammadu Buhari, the Yoruba people are “desperate to know if the alignment with the Fulani would lead to the restructuring of Nigeria and create political and economic freedom for the Yoruba”....


The above word from the write up sounds very selfish.....thinking only of the yorubas, forgetting that Nigeria is a man with many wives and the interest of all wives should be tabled, addressed and favourable and fair solution provided for peaceful co-existence of all, if all the wives but remain as the husband of the man called Nigeria.

haffaze777:

show me ur flat'head jawe

ndi ofe mmanu

ernesty20:
ndi ofe mmanu

alaye baje olori pelebe

haffaze777:

alaye baje olori pelebe

ori e ti daru sha

The Igbo idiot that wrote this is a learner

The blood of biafrans especially children killed with starvation will surely visit and cause this false contraption misery and more misery, they will continue to cry and wail for eternity unless Nigeria breaks... Nigeria will never know peace...

ernesty20:
ori e ti daru sha

shekereyewu ni e,alaye daru,show me ur flat'head joor

ernesty20:
Yoruba wey be cowards

Oju-iku was the King of coward.

Rilwayne001:
Oju-iku was the King of coward.

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