The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organization, Afenifere, has strongly condemned the action of some suspected Yoruba Nation agitators who stormed the Oyo State House of Assembly in Ibadan.
The National Publicity Secretary of the body, Comrade Jare Ajayi, made this condemnation in a statement on Sunday, noting those who carried out the action did not act in the interest of the Yorubas whom they claimed to be representing.
On Saturday, some self-acclaimed Yoruba nation agitators invaded the premises of Oyo State House of Assembly, Agodi Secretariat, Ibadan, regarded as the political capital of Yorubaland.
This incident was revealed in a video clip shared on social media, claiming that a purported ‘Democratic Republic of the Yoruba’ had been created out of Nigeria.
While reacting to the development, Afenifere pointed out that there is no such thing as the Democratic Republic of Yoruba.
“Yoruba is an important component of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. And as is well known, there cannot be a sovereign republic within an extant sovereign republic
“At the moment, Yoruba are indigenous in Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo States and in parts of Kwara, Kogi, Delta and Edo State of Nigeria, just as they are found in some other parts of the world”, he said.
Ajayi acknowledged that there are a lot of imbalances in the way Nigeria was being governed.
“But solutions to the shortcomings do not lie in violent divisions. Rather, what we should strive for is how the perceived wrongs in the country can be righted.
“Afenifere is of the strong view that President Bola Tinubu administration is taking steps to rejig Nigeria in a manner that would make the country become one that every citizen would be proud of soonest. Restructuring the country is a sure way of accelerating this,” he added.
The socio-political group stated that when the country is restructured and regions are allowed to be in control of their own affairs, “Nigeria will become beneficial to everyone.
“This is why we are relentless in our agitation for restructuring!.”
