motherlode:
Even though their concerns are genuine, it is practically impossible to cede them to the south west based on geographical segregation because they represent just a chunk of Kogi's landmass that shares land border with Edo, Enugu and Benue. Their goal can only be achieved with equal cooperation from Kwara state and Kogi as a whole. They all must speak in unison else, nothing worthwhile will be done.

Advocate500:
The same people that will tell u the igbo speaking area in Niger delta are not igbos but migrants from Benin republic will be quick to accept the okun people as yurobas, let us continue to deceive ourselves in this country when we are ready we all will know, the okun people have never complained about their relationship with the northern region just like the igbo speaking south south until now they are feeling insecure with their adopted brothers, when we are ready as people we will know.

Nchenches:
Gradually, the myth of one northern Nigeria is scattering.


Middle belt people are rooting for Biafra, even more intense sometimes than the Igbo.

Nchenches:


Most Yoruba Muslims can’t touch Northern Nigeria’s Islamic Sharia Criminal Justice System - not even with a long pole.
That’s the major difference between Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani/KanemBornu.

Advocate500:
The same people that will tell u the igbo speaking area in Niger delta are not igbos but migrants from Benin republic will be quick to accept the okun people as yurobas, let us continue to deceive ourselves in this country when we are ready we all will know, the okun people have never complained about their relationship with the northern region just like the igbo speaking south south until now they are feeling insecure with their adopted brothers, when we are ready as people we will know.

GarangDeMabior:


These places you named have been known as north for a long time.

They have a common language binding them which is Hausa.

Romanoff:


Yes I am.

Romanoff:


If you're not Okun, please, speak for yourself. Or if you're Okun and want to be a Hausa, good for you.

Lovelyn451:
kwarans will tell you they're north central with their own mouth, they associates more with Hausa's than Yoruba's

Reinaldo:


Same here. People never believe me when I tell them I'm Yoruba from Kogi State.

olasaad:


Pls don't bring Kwara into this because na themselves they packed their bag and baggage and lived Kwara to align with Kogi. But because their suffering now increase in kogi more than Kwara they now want to leave the place again.

So now where will our brothers go now Me I think Ekiti

Romanoff:


Why should Yoruba people with close proximity with two south west states be affiliated with Northern Nigeria?

Advocate500:
The same people that will tell u the igbo speaking area in Niger delta are not igbos but migrants from Benin republic will be quick to accept the okun people as yurobas, let us continue to deceive ourselves in this country when we are ready we all will know, the okun people have never complained about their relationship with the northern region just like the igbo speaking south south until now they are feeling insecure with their adopted brothers, when we are ready as people we will know.

wizzakosh:
Shameless he goat like you. You see how people want to be with yorubas, unlike you people begging the SS and doing attachee by force.

SmartPolician:


This is quite different.

The Igbos lost the Biafran war, which explains why the Igbo-speaking people in Rivers and Delta have refused to align with their brothers in the South East.

If the reverse had been the case, they would have been begging to join the country because Biafra would have gone far.

Besides, Nigeria would be treating them as slaves just as they do now (explore and tap your oils and pay you peanuts in compensation).

Victory has many friends. On the other hand, defeat has numerous enemies.

chibuzorAbia:


Are you alright OP?

Biafra and Lagos? In what context?

Oh because we have been flooded by Igbo refugees due to the useless one Nigeria?

SUFFERInSMILIIN:


This is the mistake which most people are making in Nigeria. It is not about tribe example hausa Igbo Yoruba, it is all about religion as long as you are a Muslim in Nigeria you are under the fulanis nothing else that is the religion in the country. So all of this hausa Tribe does not really count. Because by the end of the day they are Muslims and they are under the fulanis. It is the same issue with Pakistan and India long ago where the Muslims when they are away and created Pakistan. Today's some of them are running back to India

Eriokanmi:
E don dey happen. This country's union is ending soon. Better go to where you belong which is oduduwa. I learnt you people chose not to be merged with ekiti during state creation. Isn't being in ekiti better than being in kogi in North Central?

Simongm:
Sunday Aborisade, Abuja


https://punchng.com/constitution-review-zone-us-to-south-west-okun-people-write-nass/

Okun people spreads across Kogi west in the map below.

Jeezuzpick:


Is it not Babangida who did it in 1991 again?

DMerciful:
So you agree that Biafra would have gone far? In other words you agree Nigeria is holding the Igbo man down so why are you mad when they wanna be free to attain greater heights?

Romanoff:


You don't get it. Imagine a Yoruba speaking person being called a northerner when you don't even share similar cultures or values.

I personally hate it.

TechSkill:
will shut up and leave Biafra out of this? You guys will just be disgracing igbos as if you are the only one here.

BlackfireX:
Now you know how the indigenous igbo extraction feels when you say they are not part of igbos..


Or imagine some impps compose theory that the okuns are not yorubas ... How would feel if they say the SW wants to grab Land



Last last we go dey alright

satp:
The truth of the matter is, the Okun people of Kogi belong to Yoruba and there is no point to argue that. The current predicament of Okun people started when the King in Kabba did not allow Awolowo to land in his territory to campaign, rather he opted to follow Sardauna. Till today, there is no much development in that Okun land. The only two things that breathe there are Federal College of Agric and NYSC orientation camp. Thank God for the missionaries that set up Titcombe hospital in Egbe, which has really served a lot in that area. Apart from these aforementioned, nothing exists in that Okun land.
Suppose they allowed Awolowo, he would have brought development that we are seeing in majority of south western States. Kabba has been a province for decades, and look at where it is today, other areas that were also provinces have gone far.
The solution for Okun people now is, if they are fortunate to get a state, Parts of Kwara, Ekiti and very few Ondo can come together and form Okun state, which will layer clinch with South west. Bit if that does not work, Ekiti state is the best option to go.

motherlode:


The people of Okun never migrated from Kwara... Historical account has it that they migrated from Ile Ife. Nobody is bringing Kwara into anything as you referred, i am only stating the obvious fact which is that the okun people need all the help they can get to be successfully ceded to the south west else, nothing worthwhile will happen.

tamdun:
A nation is, a group of people with the same language, culture and in same geographical locations.okun people don taya
Okun people really messed up, when they were in kwara, they dominated almost all the ministry, suddenly the likes of smart adeyemi started fighting for separation and their wish was granted, now they want to come back when gara people don show them shege

ModestGal:

Really, I don't know who is detaining you people, you refused to go because you want to force the oil producing states to join you, and Nigeria said they don't want. Maybe you should restrategize.

Reinaldo:


Same here. People never believe me when I tell them I'm Yoruba from Kogi State.

ModestGal:

Lol, you sound so funny. Some Ilorin people don't even know they are in the North, especially children,and teens, they don't even know that they are associated with the Hausa's or Fulani's in anyway