Fulanisation: Yoruba leaders back Obasanjo
By Tribune Online
Fulanisation: Yoruba leaders back Obasanjo
Eminent Yoruba leaders have thrown their weight behind former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying he was right in his statement, last week, that there was an ongoing plan to Fulanise the entire country.
While the statement by the former president attracted condemnation and praises in some sections of the country, the Yoruba Summit Group, an umbrella body for all Yoruba groups, said Obasanjo was right in his observation.
This was as the group called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop his alleged preferential treatment given to the Fulani above other ethnic races across the country.
The group made this known in a communiqué issued at the end of its meeting, held in Lagos at the weekend, declaring that the Yoruba race collectively acknowledged the statement made by Obasanjo.
Present at the meeting were Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Supo Shonibare, Senator Femi Okurounmu, Dr Mrs Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosunmu, Mr Yinka Odumakin, Bashorun Akin Osuntokun, Professor Banji Akintoye, Dr Akingba, Mr Eric Oluwole and Evangelist Kunle Adesokan.
Others included Chief Olaitan, Mr Demola Folarin, Mr Tunde Odanye, Chief Jimoh Aliu, Chief (Mrs) Bola Doherty, Chief Bode George, Mr Akin Àjọṣe-Adeogun, Chief Deji Osibogun and the representative of the Ààrẹ Ọ̀nà Kakaǹfò of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, among others
The Yoruba Summit Group, in the four-paragraph communiqué signed by its spokesman, Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo and made available to the Tribune Online on Sunday, resolved that the statement by Obasanjo was real “on the existential threat to others by the clear and present danger of the well-documented acts of those hell-bent on dominating the rest.”
The group thanked the former president for confirming what it said all non-Fulani people of the country already knew “as the Yoruba have all along recognised the attempt through all means: land grabbing, kidnapping, killing of farmers, raping of our women, burning of our villages, damage to our farms and displacement of our people to which we have hundreds of evidence as a step towards full Fulanisation and genocide.”
It, therefore, declared its support for the position of the former president and other prominent Nigerians who it said have come out boldly to speak against the sad reality staring the country in the face.
The group further resolved that: “All Yorùbá men and women as they occur in the core six states and in two other states of Kwara and Kogi, naturally, should begin the serious effort of defending themselves against the very clear intent of genocide, deprivation, arson, killings, kidnappings with every means available to them.
“This is a call to all, irrespective of the established methods of seeking redress. The act of self-defence is safely international. Everyone has a right to protect himself against threats to life and property.
“The Yoruba Summit Group owes it a duty to protect the 50 million strong Yoruba within the Yoruba space and, by this communiqué, every Yoruba is reminded of his right to life, of his right to property, of his right to defend himself with the Yoruba central authority.
“The Yoruba Summit Group, in full endorsement of these rights available to every Yoruba, calls now upon every Yoruba not to live in fear anymore.
“As it is, the security agencies as presently constituted lopsidedly have failed the non-Fulani people of Nigeria, therefore this legitimate call is hereby sanctioned by the Yoruba central authority.
“The Yoruba people collectively will hold on strongly and steadfastly to these resolves in as much as our collective survival rests on us and on no one else; the leaders, elders and the generality of our people, for the common cause to confront all challenges of insecurity including genocide.”
It further resolved that those not in support of the aforementioned resolves shall be considered traitors to the cause and would be treated as such.
“By this communiqué, the Yoruba are sending a clear message to President Muhammadu Buhari to take it upon himself to immediately de-escalate forthwith on the obvious preferences given to the Fulani group.
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“He will need to stop paying, Pandering, pampering to the Fulani as we note the establishment of an exclusive Fulani radio station, the rumoured payment of a N100 billion incentive to more criminality, to Miyetti Allah and the enforcement of the Fulani sense of ownership to the land of the indigenous peoples of Nigeria.
“And for the president to know he is creating for himself a legacy to which his name will become the reference point in history as to the entity that has allowed for the situation to which Nigeria may be on the way to Sudan and Rwanda.
“The president also needs to know that if it is not his intention for a legacy of this sort, now is the time to reverse his actions that have led to this present state.
“Let the president know that the Yoruba do not want war, but we will definitely defend ourselves should these instances of unprovoked attacks by the Fulani continue. The Fulani cannot subjugate the rest of the peoples of Nigeria. Rather, the reverse will be the case to the detriment of the innocent Fulani!”
Fulanisation: Yoruba leaders back Obasanjo
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