Ayo Adebanjo, an elder statesman from the South West of Nigeria, has disclosed plans by the Yoruba nation to break off from the country and form Oduduwa Republic.
The respected leader in the Yoruba nation also predicted that the country will soon disintegrate and noted that some radical Yoruba have drawn the map of their promise land.
“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 here. The Southern Kaduna affair, the people there shouted against regionalism, because of the oppression there,” Chief Adebanjo told The Sun newspaper in a recent interview.
“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?”
You may read the full interview HERE.
