“We look up to President Buhari to be faithful to his promise of change, and to avoid all beckoning of ethnic domination – the force which has been very instrumental in diverting Nigeria onto the path of conflicts, electoral fraud, instability and poverty.”

The most dominant group representing Yoruba in the Diaspora, Oodua Foundation, this morning has expressed deep concern over the alliance with the North which brought President Mohammadu Buhari to power on March 28. The group is led by Professor Banji Akintoye, a Senator in the Second Republic.
In a statement made available to Irohinodua this morning from the United States, (US) the group is worried that the alliance which is the first between the two most dominant geo-political blocs since the country was amalgamated in 1914, should not be allowed to flounder.

The group stated “We Oodua Foundation and the entire Yoruba nation therefore hopefully expect positive outcomes this time around – even in spite of some disturbing happenings in the new government in the past two weeks. And we urge both sides in this alliance to stay fully loyal to their dedication to change, especially to obviously needed change in the structure of the Nigerian federation. We warn against allowing the forces of corruption and sectionalism to step from the shadows into key positions in the government for the purpose of serving their own squalid interests rather than the noble interests of Nigeria.





It added “We Oodua Foundation, a Yoruba think-tank organization with members in countries across the globe, and with headquarters in the United States, have been closely observing and analyzing the developments in the evolution of the executive and legislative arms of the Nigerian Federal Government since the swearing in of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29. Our conclusions from our observations compel us now to speak up clearly for the Yoruba nation of the Nigerian Southwest – to speak up to Nigeria and to a world that is watching Nigeria closely.”

Excerpt of the statement is detailed below

We do not speak for any political party; we do not belong to, support or oppose any. We respect the voices of all Yoruba groups and individuals. Our organization exists only to promote and protect the interests of the Yoruba nation in Nigeria and outside Nigeria.

We the Yoruba people of the Southwest, by political tradition and culture, cherish truth, liberty, equity, justice and fair play as fundamental basis of governance. These are the age-long cardinal principles that have defined our Yoruba nation’s political tradition for centuries, and we Yoruba people remain committed to them as pillars of order, peace and stability in society.

As one of the largest nationalities in Nigeria, we have dutifully demonstrated our commitment to these principles, and to Nigeria’s success and prosperity, in all our contributions to the making of Nigeria. In that light, we have consistently and persistently proposed since the late 1940s that, because Nigeria is a country of many different nationalities, the only way to structure Nigeria for stability and success is to show careful respect to Nigeria’s various nationalities large and small and, therefore, to structure Nigeria as a proper federation in which each of the constituent units shall enjoy the right level of autonomy to manage its own unique concerns, competently promote its own development, and strongly make its own kind of contribution to the progress and prosperity of Nigeria.

Since the culture of elective representative government was begun in Nigeria, we the people of the Southwest and our leaders have sought partnership with the leaderships of other ethnic nationalities based on mutual respect, justice and the greatest good of Nigeria and Nigerians. In that light, many eminent political leaders of ours patriotically served in the leadership of political parties led by leaders of other nationalities. We also demonstrated this commitment to Nigeria’s success with open-mindedness when, in the final preparations for Nigerian independence in 1959-60, our foremost political leader, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, offered the position of Prime Minster in the Nigerian Federal Government to another leader from another nationality, while he himself was willing to accept for himself a lower position of Minister of Economic Development in the Federal Government. It was also in the same spirit of preserving and advancing Nigeria that our leaders worked with other nationalities to create the All Progressives Grand Alliance (UPGA) in the midst of the great crisis rocking Nigeria during the first years after independence.

In terms of socio-economic development, we Yoruba of the Nigerian Southwest have always loyally demonstrated great ambition for Nigeria’s progress, prosperity and power in the world. We have always regarded our well known ambition for socio-economic progress as our kind of service to Nigeria, our kind of contribution to the progress and greatness of Nigeria. We never desire or attempt to exclude other Nigerian nationals from our successes. Since we instituted Free Primary Education in our Region, countless thousands of children from other parts of Nigeria have come to benefit from our free schools. Our tradition of hospitality towards non- Yoruba nationals, our culture of religious tolerance and freedom, and the economic and business opportunities liberally provided by our many urban centres, all have made our Southwest the destination for millions of Nigerians migrating from their own homelands.

However, for all our nation’s contributions to Nigeria, what we the people of the Southwest have relentlessly been rewarded with is hostility, resulting in betrayal, as well as efforts to pull us down. Soon after independence, the powers of the Federal Government were maliciously employed to disrupt our Southwest, generate conflict in our Region, and eventually imprison our topmost political leader on totally trumped-up charges of treasonable felony. Even our other leader, Chief Ladoke Akintola, who took the step of forming an alliance with the group controlling the Federal Government, never enjoyed the full loyalty or respectful confidence of his apparent allies; and eventually, he ended up being violently killed.

Still, in spite of this sordid record of Yoruba experiences in Nigeria, when civilian elective politics was revived in Nigeria again by 1979, Chief Awolowo embarked on a massive effort again for Nigeria’s progress and prosperity. He worked with forward-looking Nigerians from all parts of Nigeria, and created a political party with an enormously ambitious agenda for Nigeria’s greatness. And when, as Presidential Candidate, he needed to choose a running mate, he persuaded his party to let him choose a promising professional from among the Igbo nationality which had been the most viciously hurt nationality in Nigeria – his reasoning being that such a step was necessary for healing a major part of the wound which the Igbo nation and Nigeria had suffered. But what did Chief Awolowo and all who worked with him get for their great ambition for Nigeria and their titanic efforts? By employing a patently crooked formula, the Federal Government of the day robbed his party of victory.

About fifteen years later, in 1990-2, Chief M.K.O Abiola invested his resources mightily in yet another effort to bring Nigeria together and heal the scars of yesteryears, scars that had been wantonly inflicted on the citizens and peoples of Nigeria through years of military repression. His reward for his great efforts and sacrifices was that his body was brought back home from Abuja.

Still, years later, when it seemed as if a citizen from the minority Ijaw nation, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, was on the verge of being robbed of his constitutionally legitimate right of succeeding to his late President, the people of the Southwest and their leaders supported him powerfully through street demonstrations and global campaigns. Unfortunately, throughout President Jonathan’s 6-year presidency, the people of the Southwest were treated with hate and spite.

We in Oodua Foundation, and informed people all over the world, have watched in the past three years as a section of the Yoruba political leadership has worked and sacrificed to knit together the current alliance with the core North, again out of the Yoruba ambition for a stable, strong and just Nigerian society. Those efforts have now produced a solid possibility of a Nigerian Federal Government dedicated to the welfare of all Nigerians, dependably set against the cultures of corruption, ethnic chauvinism, and process manipulations, a Federal Government capable of leading Nigerian out of poverty into a new era of prosperity and national dignity and greatness.


'We look up to President Buhari to be faithful to his promise of change, and to avoid all beckoning of ethnic domination – the force which has been very instrumental in diverting Nigeria onto the path of conflicts, electoral fraud, instability and poverty.'

And we urge the Southwest leaders in this hopeful arrangement to maintain discipline in their ranks, so as to be able to render their very best service to change and prosperity. We urge Yoruba political leaders of all persuasions and partisan leanings to consciously give this new arrangement a good chance of success – in the interest of our Yoruba people and all other peoples of Nigeria. And finally, we alert the masses of our Yoruba people to remain vigilant, strong and resolute in the struggle for freedom – freedom for the Yoruba nation and for all other nationalities of Nigeria

Hausa-Fulani wl show Yoruba pe-pe.

Fear-induced rhetoric. Hausa/Fulani will show una pepper as usual

Pls don't come back home again ohh Tinubu has sold you out

The same claws wey lion dey take play with Im pikin naim e dey take tear im enemy into pieces. This is the beginning!

Gotta buy a piece of 'nairaLAND' brb 2 read the post.

Anybody with sense can see this was a tactical mistake by tinubu. My only issue and concern is with Tinubu's strong hold on SW. He is no awolowo or MKO and doesn't care about Yoruba people, except for his selfish interest. I hope people can stop worshipping this man and instead choose a leader that will put our interests first.

Yoruba generals will soon start weeping and dobale-ing

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All these after the elections have come and gone , People is too late already. Change has come to Nigeria, unfortunately not the one you people expected

Dollyak:
Anybody with sense can see this was a tactical mistake by tinubu. My only issue is with Tinubu's strong hold on SW. He is no awolowo or MKO and doesn't care about Yoruba people, except for his selfish interest. I hope people can stop worshipping this man and instead choose a leader that will put our interests first.

Babe you are quite cute Because of you I can decide to forgive Tinubu's treachery

Yoruba people have betrayal in their blood.
Tinubu sold yorubaz for a pot of portage

chukwudi44:


Babe you are quite cute Because of you I can decide to forgive Tinubu's treachery

Haa.. I don't like tinubu either, so you better maintain your hatred . My people first, then Tinubu somewhere at the bottom only by virtue of being from tribe.

Balkan:
Yoruba people have betrayal in their blood.
Tinubu sold yorubaz for a pot of portage

More like for a spoon of ewedu

Dollyak:
Anybody with sense can see this was a tactical mistake by tinubu. My only issue and concern is with Tinubu's strong hold on SW. He is no awolowo or MKO and doesn't care about Yoruba people, except for his selfish interest. I hope people can stop worshipping this man and instead choose a leader that will put our interests first.

#WatchingYouEverywhereYouGo

Dollyak:
Anybody with sense can see this was a tactical mistake by tinubu. My only issue and concern is with Tinubu's strong hold on SW. He is no awolowo or MKO and doesn't care about Yoruba people, except for his selfish interest. I hope people can stop worshipping this man and instead choose a leader that will put our interests first.

Very naive statements, go and replace Tinubu now and come back to tell us how easily you achieved it

Imokay:


Very naive statements, go and replace Tinubu now and come back to tell us how easily you achieved it

See how stupidd you are. Now think deeply about this. Gosh. Are you capable of that? Naa, I won't hold my breath. Tinubu is a goddamn billionaire in dollars, let that sh!t sink into your cluless skull. You lots have a way of destroying my day with stupidity.

Dollyak:

See how stupid you are. Now think deeply about this. Gosh.

Don't mind the fool. He is one of Tinubu'd ass lickers

Dollyak:

See how stupidd you are. Now think deeply about this. Gosh. Are you capable of that? Naa, I won't hold my breath. Tinubu is a goddamn billionaire in dollars, let that sh!t sink into your cluless skull. You lots have a way of destroying my day with stupidity.

Mugu start the replacement process now with your fellow maggots, it's by typing on nairaland i should have know you are just a kid, still being fed

chukwudi44:

Don't mind the fool. He is one of Tinubu'd ass lickers

He better be getting something as a reward. I hate fools.

Imokay:


Mugu start the replacement process now with your fellow maggots, it's by typing on nairaland i should have know you are just a kid, still being fed

You are devoid of critical thought. Continue living your stupid life while Tinubu laugh at your stupidity in his mansion. I am still being fed... lol. You wish... let's be humble. Kvnt

Imokay:


Mugu start the replacement process now with your fellow maggots, it's by typing on nairaland i should have know you are just a kid, still being fed

You better don't procreate... Backward man.

Dollyak:

You are devoid of critical thought. Continue living your stupid life while Tinubu laugh at your stupidity in his mansion. I am still being fed... lol. You wish... let's be humble. Kvnt

Go and stop him from laughing in mansion with silly post on nairaland, and its the foolish statements you make here you refer to as critical thought. You still need more schooling, try and hold down a job not to talk of conceiving any meaningful entity, the come back here to talk

Ee neva start oooo...infact the alliance don make Tinubu(self styled acclaimed national leader AC.N not APC) humble

chukwudi44:

Don't mind the fool. He is one of Tinubu'd ass lickers

Imagine the fool. The hot sun in Nigeria must be sucking his brain fluid.

If those yorubas in diaspora could be un-calm because of tinubu(SW) + buhari(northern born to dominate) alliance... Wahala dey o

The most sophisticated people are now indirectly begging their masters not to forget them


Afonja

Awolowo

Abiola

Will be weeping





BUHARI CUT OFF TINUBU'S LAST HOLD ON YOU BY

1) REMOVING OSINBANJO

2) REJECTING TINUBU'S MINISTERIAL NOMINEES

Imokay:


Go and stop him from laughing in mansion with silly post on nairaland, and its the foolish statements you make here you refer to as critical thought. You still need more schooling, try and hold down a job not to talk of conceiving any meaningful entity, the come back here to talk

Hold down meaningful job you say? This is where I laugh at your stupidity. How many of these people do you know? You think just because you are miserable and a failure, everyone will be like you?
The reason NIGERIA is still backward is because millions like you still waste the free air in Nigeria.

Back to your failed dig-I don't need to stop him from laughing at idiott and self proclaimed slave like you, because the progress/retrogression of Nigeria has no effect on my lifestyle.
Go and live your miserable live peasants.

Dollyak:

Imagine the fool. The hot sun in Nigeria must be sucking his brain fluid.

It will be very difficult for you achieve anything meaningful with your life as you keep aligning with losers. You have demonstrated zero critical thinking since you joined this thread.

I don't understand how an individual will stick up for a corrupt politicians.

Imokay:


It will be very difficult for you achieve anything meaningful with your life as you keep aligning with losers. You have demonstrated zero critical thinking since you joined this thread.

lol. Well you've failed. Stick around, then you will know I am superior to you in everyway. Fingers are not equal and I can tell you are not, and will never be equal. You are an inferior being(your new name).

Imokay:


It will be very difficult for you achieve anything meaningful with your life as you keep aligning with losers. You have demonstrated zero critical thinking since you joined this thread.

Oh I didn't know you are a fan. Idiot.

Imokay:


It will be very difficult for you achieve anything meaningful with your life as you keep aligning with losers. You have demonstrated zero critical thinking since you joined this thread.

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