Name NASS members funding Igboho, Akintoye tells Buhari

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…Says President looks away from murderous activities of Fulani herdsmen.
Yoruba self determination group,Ilana OmobOdua has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to be bold enough to name the National Assembly members funding Sunday Igboho and his group.
I’m a statement Friday to react to President Buharis Independence day broadcast,the group in the statement signed by Maxwell Adeleye,Communications secretary of Ilana Odua,the group said instead of focusing on Igboho and his group doing what’s is lawful.under the United Nations and African Union charter,President Buhari should focus on the murderous activities of Fulani herdsmen terrorists and Miyetti Allah in the South and Middle Belt areas of the country.
It stated that the President’s remark has emboldened the group more to press further for it’s agitation for self determination.
Full statement below:
PRESS STATEMENT

ILANA OMO OODUA’S POSITION ON BUHARI’S OCTOBER 1ST SPEECH:

“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 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.

“Mr. President said an unknown Sitting Member of the Nigerian National Assembly is involved in the funding of Sunday Igboho. That’s an absolute mendacity. The Yoruba people from villages to villages to the Diaspora are contributing their hard-earned resources to oil and sustain the agitation.

“Our appeal to Buhari is to, as a matter of urgency, name the invincible 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 unknown to us in Ilana Omo Oodua, we say very expressly that he is a hero that has chosen to stand by a legitimate, legal and constitutional agitation.  Therefore, Buhari is merely groundstanding.

“As Buhari name 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 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”

 

– Maxwell Adeleye,
Communications Secretary,
Ilana Omo Oodua

For and On behalf of Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye.

1st October, 2021.

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