“This is a voice, the true voice of the people of Western Nigeria and all the voices are saying very simply:

Akintola, get out;

Akintola, get out and take with you your band of renegades who have lost with you any pretence of humanity, and have become nothing, but murdering beasts.

Take with you your goons, who would sooner kill and maim, than acknowledge that you are now an outcast to human society. The lawful government of Western Nigeria is the UPGA government, elected by the people of the West.

Let every self-seeking impostor get out now before the people, losing patience, wash the streets in their polluted blood. Get out, and take with you your lepers, your things, your army, your police, in their kits and armoured cars frightening old women in the markets, pumping bullets through the doors of female students and dragging their brave bodies down concrete steps because they dare to protest.

The children loathe you; mothers curse you; all men despise you. And the youths of this country long for the moment when your presence will no longer pollute their home for a decent future.

In the name of Oduduwa and our generation, get out! Before the frustration of ten million people, their anger and their justice in an all consuming fire come over your heads.

And to you the Police, who think you merely obey orders; to you, the Army, who commit these crimes in the name of obedience and to you, our Obas who have lost shame, honour and dignity; to you the civil servants, Radio, Press, who think more of your bellies than the legacy you have bequeathed to our generation; to you, the intellectuals, who sit while acts of horror are committed before your eyes; to you, priests, bishops, imams who do not use your pulpits for the benefit of our generation:

We remind you that the floods that have waited many years to break loose will not have the leisure to choose between the hovels and palace ..."


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“This is a voice, the true voice of the people of Western Nigeria and all the voices are saying very simply:

Akintola Buboo, get out;

Akintola Buboo, get out and take with you your band of renegades who have lost with you any pretence of humanity, and have become nothing, but murdering beasts.