Fulani Invasion: Yoruba leaders threatensecession

Ibadan—FOLLOWING alleged incessant and
unprovoked attacks and invasion of their
farmlands by some Fulani herdsmen, notable
Yoruba leaders held an emergency summit in
Ibadan, Oyo State, yesterday threatening to
review its status in the Nigerian federation.
The summit was entitled, National Insecurity
and the Menace of Fulani Herdsmen in
Yorubaland.
The meeting, presided over by former
Governor of the Western Region, General
Adeyinka Adebayo, warned that the Yoruba
will no longer tolerate the present structure of
the country, which they claim undermine self
actualization of the people of the South West.
Reports from the summit said failure to
restructure Nigeria using the 2014 confab
report might force the Yoruba people to
review her place in a political arrangement
that cannot guarantee the protection of her
citizens. Factional leaders of the Oodua
Peoples Congress, (OPC), Dr Fredrick Faseun
and Otunba Gani Adams were unanimous in
saying that the time to “leave Nigeria” and
assert the sovereignty of the Yoruba people is
now.
The summit strongly condemned what it
described as the “invasion and killing of
people in Yoruba territories” by the Fulani
herdsmen. The summit held in the House of
Chiefs Section of the Parliament Building of
the Oyo State Secretariat with the theme
“National Insecurity and the Menace of Fulani
Herdsmen in Yorubaland.” The participants
also decried the continued oppression of the
Yoruba in their homeland by some Fulani
herdsmen.

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