State Affairs 20 April 2024
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Separatist Movement in Yorubaland: Invasion of Oyo State House of Assembly
In an unexpected turn of events, members of the Yoruba Nation, a fringe separatist group known as Ominira Yoruba, made headlines last weekend for their actions against the Nigerian state. Their protest took a dramatic turn as they stormed tthe House of Assembly in Ibadan, with the intention of replacing the Nigerian flag with that of the Yoruba Nation.
However, their efforts were met with resistance from the police and other security agents, preventing the group from achieving their goal. Despite the setback, Modupe Onitiri-Abiola, spouse of the late Chief Moshood Abiola, who won the June 12, 1993, presidential election, proclaimed the secession of th
As the situation unfolds, it underscores the complexity of Nigeria’s sociopolitical landscape and the importance of dialogue and peaceful resolution in addressing grievances and pursuing meaningful change.
The YN is not the only group demanding secession from Nigeria. Also aggrieved are the Igbo separatists in the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra IPOB and other offshoots. Violence has since become an option for some of these ones in Igboland. Igbo people, security agents and government assets are being attacked in Igboland to drive home the agitation for a state of Biafra.
Is Yorubaland about to witness its own version of violent uprising?
Is violence the best approach in the pursuit of socio-political aspirations?
The Punch in its 18 April 2024 editorial says “Indeed, violence is not the answer. Separatist groups like the Irish Republican Army (UK) and the Basque Separatist Group (Spain) had to renounce violence to realise their objectives.”
The question is if the Irish and Basques movement did not take up arms would government had negotiated with them?
Does the the invasion highlight the urgency of restructuring Nigeria?
Is violent agitations soaring in response to Nigeria’s highly criticized constitution?
What is the consequences of a political and economic model designed to enrich the political elites and impoverish the largest number?
Should the constitution be amended to allow the states to achieve their full potential – “true” federalism?
Who is Dupe Onitiri-Abiola?
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This should be the most interesting marriage proposal (Yinka and Joe) I may have heard of 1:26:23, what makes it even more interesting is that the marriage works out pretty well.
Does anyone know the signature background song that Edmund plays during this program? It sounds like a South African song. Any link? Name of the artist?
Where are men when Moremi engaged in spy,subterfuge diplomacy in helping Ufe to overcome the Ugbo invasion. Efunsetan Aniwura helped Ibadan, Madam Efunroye Tinubu, helped the Abeokuta to defeat the Powerful Dahomey army and where are men when Madam Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti has to lead Abeokuta to overthrow the Alake of Egbaland Oba Ademola.
Edmund Obilo, what people have not studied about Dupe Onitiri-Abiola is that she's well educated, polished, courageous, and the fact that she's not from a poor background and did not marry poor speak a lot about her and listening to her broadcast shows for the first time a person that's serious, focused and resilient in pulling Yoruba out of a failed State called Nigeria.
Edmund Obilo, my brother, when you kill the study of history in schools, you have killed the people, you have killed their sense of self-determination, you have killed what you are as a human being. Olusegun Obasanjo did that, only him know the reason that he inflicted so much injury into the psyche of the Yoruba race.
Most yoruba that get their education from 1980 upwards does not really have education. They're only literate because they don't largely have a sense of history because they have none, they're like parrots, whatever they were feed it, they regurgitate what goes into them without reason out the input. A disgrace to what Chief Jeremiah Oyeniyi Obafemi Awolowo planned, desired, and put in place for the growth and development of Yoruba race.
The house of Oduduwa is already falling, if you look at the crops of present Oba in yoruba land, if you look at the crops of bourgeoisie politicians, governors and leaders and followers in yoruba land. Edmund Obilo, the truth is that the house of Oduduwa has cracked and is about to collapse. Just as in 1994, Rwanda saying, who will help us build Kigali. How are we going to protect the Yoruba nation from going to oblivion. Thank you sir.
I think, we Nigerians have the tendency of always over-valuing/appreciating what we currently don't have e.g. "history subject in school"!
Many of the Nigerians crying over the removal of history subject in our schools will rather watch/listen to swagger and gossiping programs than to listen to a brilliant historical masterclass like this.
And many of those that listen would also rather want the historical fact be told the ways and manners it suits them or their narrative.
I am not in anyway against bringing history subject back to our schools, but I am of the opinion that the teaching of "ethics and moral values" in our homes, schools and religious places will do our country Nigeria a better service 🇳🇬.