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Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, says the July 3 Lagos rally will hold as scheduled. And nobody can stop it.
Mr. Adeyemo made this statement during a virtual townhall meeting organized by The Yoruba Security Group, a coalition of Yoruba associations in the diaspora.
Mr. Adeyemo was invited by the group to give an update on the security issues in Yorubaland regarding the growing influence of killer herdsmen in the South-West region of Nigeria, where the Yoruba people are situated.
Igboho expressed his usual disdain over the continuous killing and kidnapping of Yoruba people and called for unity among all Yoruba in diaspora and at home. He said that only through unity can Yoruba Nation be actualized. “And it can be actualized by October” (2021), he affirmed. “But we must stand together’, he concluded.
The flyer of the Yoruba Security Group announcing the meeting
Asked during a question and answer session to give update on the upcoming Lagos, Igboho said: “The Lagos rally will happen. Nothing can stop it. Nobody can stop us. He went further to argue that protest is a form of political participation and a fundamental right of all Nigerians.
Mr. Adeyemo’s position comes against the background of the Lagos commissioner of Police (CP), Hakeem Odumosu’s stand that no group has approached his command in respect of a rally.
The Nation Online reported Hakeem Odumosu as saying: “I’m not aware of anybody planning any rally anywhere in Lagos. Nobody has written to the Command to that effect. So, when we get to the bridge, we’ll cross it.”
The Yoruba Nation protesters have held rallies across southwest states, including Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, and Ondo. But the Lagos rally is drawing particular attention because of what many original Lagosians as well as State and Federal security agencies believe would be violatile.
The flyer of the upcoming Lagos rally
Several political leaders in the South-West region of Nigeria have rejected and against the idea of a Yoruba Nation. Last month, former Governor of Lagos Bola Ahmed Tinubu, alongside Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila, Bisi Akande and all leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-West, in meeting called for ethnic and religious unity instead of a divided nation.
But Igboho and his band of agitators believe that the killer herdsmen are a clear and present danger to Yoruba people and that the solution to the problem is to have a Yorubaland part from Nigeria.
Via Sahara Reporters:
In the last rally held in Ekiti, Igboho declared the 2023 general elections would not hold in the region unless the Oduduwa Republic is created, calling on all stakeholders to support him and other leaders in achieving it.
Igboho is expected to be in Lagos on July 3, 2021 at the Ojota park in continuation of the rally for creation of Yoruba Nation, the Nation reports.
An ardent support of the activist, Ololade Alaba Shomuyiwa, popularly known as Baba Confirm, Prophet of El Adonai Cherubim and Seraphim International Bible Ministries, disclosed that Igboho and other supporters would be in Lagos, urging Yoruba to support the movement.
