Welcome, Oòduà Nation! By Rèmí Oyèyemí
It is meaningless to assume that bigness is everything. Statistics and facts available does not support that bigness is always a good thing. When Muammar Gaddafi visited Nigeria in 1982. His first statement at the Murtala Mohammed Airport was “Some nations are big for nothing,” as a way to express his disappointment in Nigeria.

BY RÈMÍ OYÈYEMÍJUL 22, 2020

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)



We have decided to carve out our own NATION STATE out of Nigeria. THE OODUA NATION. We have reached the limit of our endurance with Nigeria. We are tired of being slaves in our own land. Our people do not deserve to be poor. They don't deserve to live in poverty. Their choice is never to live squalor. We did not at any time sign any contract with any group of persons, Nations or countries that we are giving up our rights to self determination. Our promise to ourselves and our people is "Life abundant" as eloquently articulated by Obafemi Awolowo in his philosophy of social contract with the people, called AWOISM.

We are resolved to have a date with our DESTINY. We are resolved to be free. We are resolved to be the captains of our own souls. We hope to have this done by peaceful means. But if we have to fight, so be it. There is no making the omelette without breaking the egg. Any fight in the protection of our heritage is worth it. Any fight in the protection of our land is worth it. Any fight in the protection of our women is worth it. Any fight in the protection of our children is worth it. Any fight to remove the shackles from our ankles is worth it. Any fight to gain our dignity is worth it. Any fight to set us and the generation unborn free is worth it.

As Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “No one can make you a slave without your consent.” Our membership of Nigeria has worked out as slavery and robbed us of the orderly political and social environment in which to employ our God-given capabilities to pursue our development and progress. Our decision, arrived at in utmost humility to the opinions of mankind and with hope in the approval and support of the Creator and Ruler of all nations, is that it is time for us to have a separate, independent and sovereign country of our own in the world. We have resolved to have our OÒDUÀ NATION.


Remi Oyeyemi
Yes, we are very confident that this will happen. We have no scintilla of doubt that this must happen. We are confident of the support of the heavenly armies that this will happen. We are sure of the the orígun mérìndínllógún ilè Oòduà have lined up for this. All the spirits of our heroes past in Oòduà Land are in support of this. All the spirits of the martyrs of Oòduà Land are line up for this. It is our Àyànmó tí kò gb'óògùn. Yes, it is our manifest DESTINY - OÒDUÀ NATION.

We have no idea of the timeline because it depends on a lot of factors. The Yoruba are very deliberative and circumspective and they never rush to take decisions. They will do whatever they need to do at the appropriate time. But, we want to assure you that it is going to be unstoppable when this occurs. Presently, a lot of things are being put in place. All ramifications are being considered and prepared for. All possible impediments, internally and externally are being considered and prepared for. Majority of Yoruba people are tired of Nigeria. We think we can do better on our own. We believe it is our destiny to be free from Nigeria and nothing will be able to impede the realization of that destiny. Nothing will impede the imminence of OÒDUÀ NATION.

This coming OÒDUÀ NATION is inevitable to say the obvious. No army could stop it. No Airforce could impede its march. No Navy could swim against its tide. No amount of bullion vans could buy it off. No internal enemies would survive it. Yes, internal enemies in their usual perfidious l ways would try, but as usual, they would fail. No amount of external collaborators would succeed again it. OÒDUÀ NATION is an idea which time has come. "Ideas do not create crisis, it is crisis that creates idea," so postulated Fidel Castro. OÒDUÀ NATION IS HERE.

As to our viability, the new Oodua Nation will in terms of land size (inland and coast water area as recognized by the United Nations) be bigger in land area than Germany, Italy, and United Kingdom. Oodua Nation would be about 9 times bigger than Denmark, almost 13 times bigger than Belgium, over 4 times bigger than Portugal, over 10 times bigger than Switzerland, one of the places where the politicians of Nigeria like to hide their stolen money and over 17 times bigger than the State of Israel!

In population, it will be bigger than Canada, bigger than Great Britain about 2 times, bigger than Portugal about 4 times, Norway about 9 times, Belgium about 4 times, Sweden about 4 times, Denmark about 8 times, Switzerland about 5 times, Israel about 5 times and bigger than Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales put together

In terms of economic resources, the most important thing is the human resources. We need not the oil, even though we have some. We have a lot of arable land. We will revive our agriculture as a base for industrialization with application of technology. We will create an economy that would be the envy of others and once again set pace for the rest of Africa. But our focus would be on a lot of other things some of which we would rather not talk about right now, for strategic reasons. We would posit that development economists tell us that the reason why a nation tends to make faster progress technologically, economically and politically after it becomes an independent Nation, is to be found in cultural homogeneity.

Japan is just a string of Islands without any oil. It has the world’s three best selling cars in world history without having any steel or able to grow any rubber plantation to make tyres. It has economically conquered the world. Look at the State if Israel, what does it have and how big is it that all the Arabs are powerless at its feet. The age of Metuselah is nothing compared to the Wisdom of Solomon. The bigness of a country is not directly proportional to its prosperity, power and prestige. Check out Norway and other Scandinavian countries to appreciate this fact.

It is meaningless to assume that bigness is everything. Statistics and facts available does not support that bigness is always a good thing. When Muammar Gaddafi visited Nigeria in 1982. His first statement at the Murtala Mohammed Airport was “Some nations are big for nothing,” as a way to express his disappointment in Nigeria.

Our detractors often try to suggest that the Yoruba are disunited. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Yoruba are very united. Do not buy the bogus propaganda that we are divided. We are ONE because we are children of the same father. We will rally together. We will build a country that will be the envy of the others. We will demonstrate that the Blackman is not cursed. We will through sheer hard work and determination which are our hallmarks build a country that its peoples will be very proud and the world will have no choice but to respect. We will revitalize our culture. We will re-engage with our values. We will restructure and modernize our language just as the Jews did to Hebrew after the creation of the Israeli nation in 1948.

We have done it before. We will do it again. We know what we have to do to take our seat in the comity of Nations. We just want to appeal to our brothers and sisters, all sons and daughters of Oodua that in this quest for Oodua Nation, we can not afford the luxury of illusions of impractical ideas, we can not afford the comfort of inaction, we can not afford to cower in fear, we can not afford the delusions of greatness as a member of a failed state where our heritage is being disparaged on daily basis, where the future of our children have been foreclosed, where we can never reach the height of our potentials. Like Benjamin Franklin once posited, those who gave up their liberty for their safety deserves neither their liberty nor safety.

Oodua Nation will be born. It is the destiny of the Yoruba people to be free and to give a lasting legacy to their children, posterity and the world.

Welcome to OÒDUÀ NATION!

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."
-John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1960

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Too long.
I wish you the best of luck.

It is not going to be an easy walk

The foolish once among you want to remain slave for life, they are the once driving commercial buses in kaduna and Kano

I endorse this message!
How can anybody want to be in a country where if u get kidnapped, its up to your family to look for the ransom,
Geez

Divide Nigeria now.

Sometimes being alone is better

Oòduà nation

What would the struggle for self governance look like.

If anything is going to happen the majority of Yoruba would have to be in support. And then there would have to be a unanimous push in the House and Senate by the South-Western Reps for an exit.

The tribe of Judah will indeed be born

But how it will happen is only God knowing

exactly we need to leave this shit hole i always say why black don't ait down and think, a white man(who hates blacks by the way) came carved a piece of land and called it nigeria but i accept we had to stay together to get our freedom but is it necessary we remain together especially when things aren't working has it should be since independence. it's time for self governance we have the lands and population and the human resources it's time for our final freedom

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One Nigeria expired in 1960

Now that Nnamdi Kanu has tamed his tongue, we can work with biafra.

Congratulations to you all and I am confident that if becomes reality, your country will be great, cause you guys are hardworking and very intelligent

Seerade029:


Now that Nnamdi Kanu has tamed his tongue, we can work with biafra.

my brother I wish we can just forget our differences and fight for freedom.....no body is benefiting from this contraption, as a matter of fact every body is a victim, including the average northerners.....we must push for our various freedom from this shit hole..... I wish us all the best.....God bless Biafra!!!!God bless the oduduwa republic!!

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Justice35:
my brother I wish we can just forget our differences and fight for freedom.....no body is benefiting from this contraption, as a matter of fact every body is a victim, including the average northerners.....we must push for our various freedom from this shit hole..... I wish us all the best.....God bless Biafra!!!!God bless the oduduwa republic!!

True, you're correct.
Amen.

Nigeria is a failed state that the only solution is a total disintegration of the contraption.Anyone still hoping that this nation will get it right needs a psychiatric evaluation.

This coming OÒDUÀ NATION is inevitable to say the obvious. No army could stop it. No Airforce could impede its march. No Navy could swim against its tide. No amount of bullion vans could buy it off. No internal enemies would survive it. Yes, internal enemies in their usual perfidious l ways would try, but as usual, they would fail. No amount of external collaborators would succeed again it. OÒDUÀ NATION is an idea which time has come. "Ideas do not create crisis, it is crisis that creates idea," so postulated Fidel Castro. OÒDUÀ NATION IS HERE.

Yes it is the internal enemies we should very much be wary of. The omoales who'll sell their souls for power and position.

Those who are ashamed of their heritage and would rather discribed their family compound with left hand.

Thank you Remi Oyeyemi and more ink to your pen.

Truly no one can stop an idea whose time has come.

SUPPORTED.

I am in support... When i look at what is happening in Lagos and the rest of South , i would say this is Ecclesiastes 10:7 happening right before our eyes... Nnamdi Azikiwe nor Awolowo will never comeback to fix their mistakes, it is the living that would fight for the living .

Nigerian Yoruba land and allies should merge with Togo and Benin republic to create a bigger nation.

They didn't state the states that'll make up their country, how did they arrive on the claim that their territory is bigger than UK and Germany?

Igbos and yorubas unite...

UdechiHD:
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Unlike the thriving Republic of Biafra. Sorry, Biafla.

Justice35:
my brother I wish we can just forget our differences and fight for freedom.....no body is benefiting from this contraption, as a matter of fact every body is a victim, including the average northerners.....we must push for our various freedom from this shit hole..... I wish us all the best.....God bless Biafra!!!!God bless the oduduwa republic!!

Most Nigerians want Nigeria to be broken into pieces for self rule and self determination. The only ones who don't want this are those retards in political offices having access to the Nigerian loot.

HedwigesMaduro:


Most Nigerians want Nigeria to be broken into pieces for self rule and self determination. The only ones who don't want this are those retards in political offices having access to the Nigerian loot.

true bro but we can't allow these selfish folks to decide our destinies...... We need to secure the future of our unborn children..

Most people in the monkey Republic are still sleeping. When they wake up, they are going to realise how stupid and retar.ded they have been all this while.

An oduduwa nation without yoruba moslems will bring the much needed peace and prosperity.