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| Ayo Adebanjo |
A respected Yoruba
leader and elder stateman, Ayo Adebanjo, has predicted that Nigeria would
disintegrate soon. He said that the western part of the country in now ready to
break away from the country.
According to Daily
Sun, Adebanjo said the marginalization and oppression of some people in the
country has necessitated a breakup. The highly respected elder statesman
said the Yoruba people would want to have the Oduduwa Republic once the nation
splits.
He said, “We
are going for disintegration. That is what I am sorry about. You cannot keep
the country together like this. You would continually be suppressing there and
suppressing there. The Southern Kaduna affair, the people there shouted against
regionalism, because of the oppression there.
“They said the Fulani
were oppressing them. If you look at the recommendations of the 2014 National
Confab, we said any area that has economic interests are free to stay together
after a referendum of 71 per cent. That was how we brought in regionalism. We
did all that to make sure we stay together.
“If you look at the
agitation of the South South, South East, they are not even insisting on
restructuring; it is restructuring within Nigeria or outside of it. We even
understand that some radical Yoruba have drawn the map of the Oduduwa Republic
and all that, but we are keeping them down.
“There is an advantage
in the economy of scale but we cannot keep them down for too long when we know
that they are being cheated. We say those areas that they feel they are being
cheated; let us iron it out so that we can stay together. What is wrong with
that?”
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