South West leaders met in Lagos on Sunday to unfold plans for an upcoming Yoruba “Grand Rally on Restructuring”. Addressing newsmen after the meeting, the Chairman, Organising Committee for the Rally, Dr Kunle Olajide, said that the rally, scheduled to hold in Ibadan on Sept. 7, would be a one-agenda-congress on restructuring.

“This endeavour has to do with Nigeria and the aim is for a united Nigeria. “The all-inclusive summit of the Yoruba people will have more than 100 Yoruba groups that will declare their stand on the need to restructure Nigeria. “Yoruba leaders at home and abroad and organised groups, students, artisans, past and current elected public officials across the political spectrum will be converging in Ibadan to appraise the issue of restructuring and fashion out a workable way out of the quagmire the country is presently in,” he said.

The meeting, which held at the Protea Hotel, Ikeja, saw key leaders from the zone, such as Pa Reuben Afosoranti, Chief Ayo Adebanjo and Chief Amos Akingba in attendance. Also at the meeting were Chief Supo Sonibare (Afenifere Chairman, Lagos), Mr Yinka Odumakin (Afenifere Spokesman), and Prof. Banji Akintoye, among many others. Olajide said that although the South West governors and all Yoruba would be at the meeting, the gathering would be a non-political one. According to him, Nigeria is drifting dangerously and there is need for those at the helm of affairs to listen to the yearnings of the people and do the needful to maintain unity and peace.

“We are meeting to take a crucial decision on Nigeria. We are going through a very difficult phase. “So patriots have to rise up and find lasting solutions to the difficulties we are experiencing,” he added. Olajide further said that legal luminary, Chief Afe Babalola, would chair and direct the rally. The rally would be coming a few weeks after the Nigerian Senate voted against amending the 1999 constitution to accommodate restructuring that would devolve more powers to the states. NAN

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/08/yoruba-grand-rally-restructuring-hold-sept-7-swest-leaders/

I want to put a bet that this thread will not make up to two pages...before it dies...

We need to see the youths of SW contribute on system that will impact their region...they should stop running after Igbo, Ipob, Biafra and Kanu threads...

Let see how it goes....

Too many chiefs

So the Yoruba nation is also now tired of the grand deception called one Nigeria Thanks to the igbos for helping them to reset their reasoning."One Nigeria" is the slogan only when a core northerner is in power.

Cooly100:

I want to put a bet that this thread will not make up to two pages...before it dies...

We need to see the youths of SW contribute on system that will impact their region...they should stop running after Igbo, Ipob, Biafra and Kanu threads...

Let see how it goes....

Yoruba youths have almost lost it. Talk about naija bet or the premiership, those are the things that give them joy. Maybe they have a reason for that anomaly. Nigeria, the classic dream killer has killed aplentys dreams.

[/b]Nigeria is drifting dangerously and there is need for those at the helm of affairs to listen to the yearnings of the people and do the needful to maintain unity and peace.[b] That is a solemn fact but unity is no more the solution as the hausa-fulani hegemony will never wants to relinquish it hold on power.Buhari is a classical example.

What really is this restructuring self. Nonsense confusionists. The small they got from FAAC where is it. Make una dey allow politicians decieve una.

peaceful separation is the solution. referendum referendum referendum . biafra shall be free

just watch as this thread will die a peaceful death

YORUBAS NO GO COME HERE OO BUT ONCE THEY SEE IGBO,BIAFRA THEY JUMP IN AS IF THEY PUT INJECTION 4 THIER HEAD.

qADSSA

As a yoruba Muslim with affinity to the caliphate I emphatically say that our yoruba leaders should go and die. As long as sultan of Sokoto our Supreme leader is against restructuring, we yoruba Muslims must defend it with out blood.

Argue with me omo ale jati jati

BiafranBushBoy:
just watch as this thread will die a peaceful death

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Oladeebo

TRUTH2020:
YORUBAS NO GO COME HERE OO BUT ONCE THEY SEE IGBO,BIAFRA THEY JUMP IN AS IF THEY PUT INJECTION 4 THIER HEAD.

If this is true then shame on them. Quite a big shame.

No government can withstand any yoruba agitation that's why i believe restructuring is a little bit realisable than dividing the country.

You mean their exit from Niger delta

How long will it take this beutiful thread to get to page 1, let alone page 2 or 3. Where're all the nairaland resident yoruba e-warriors?........hav they scampered for safety inside they dillapidated brown roofed mud house in the slums of Ibadan? . By the way, did anyone noticed that all the elders/leaders that attended that first meeting were all yoruba christians?.........smh for yuruba muslim leaders. Lik someone rightly say, "The fight for oodua nation or restructuring will not b btw yuruba & hausafulani but btw yuruba christians & yuruba muslims". To b religiously divided is the worst that can happen to a people,tribe or a nation. ..........Head slammers will avoid this thread like ebola