Professor Banji Akintoye, the head of the Yoruba Nation Self-Determination Struggle, has accused Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, of using a few of the movement’s members against it in order to advance his own political ambitions.
Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide’s congress, which is rumored to take place tomorrow in Ibadan on Tuesday, November 1, according to Akintoye, has not been authorized.
This was said by the IOO head on Monday.
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He said that he had to make the statement to refute Funmi Soyemi’s assertion that the organization’s departing Chairman of the Ilana Interim Management Committee would conduct a World Congress of Ilana Omo Oodua tomorrow in Ibadan.
He said, ” The people planning the congress are few agents of Nigerian politicians within the struggle. Bola Tinubu, the Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress is currently recruiting some power-seeking individuals within the self-determination struggle to either discredit me or destroy the movement completely.
“I am sending out this short message to all Yoruba People worldwide that I did not authorize any meeting of Ilana Omo Oodua to be held tomorrow at Ibadan, Oyo-State. Those behind the gathering are few people working for Nigerian politicians who are determined to discredit our noble struggle.
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“I hereby dissociate myself from such a gathering and I want the whole world to know the meeting is illegal, unauthorized and unknown to Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide thus whatever resolutions reached at the meeting is null and void.
“The characters behind the rumored meeting are individuals who are more interested in holding offices and positions within the self-determination struggle than fighting to restore the stolen sovereignty of our people.
“Also, Bola Tinubu has threatened to destroy Ilana Omo Oodua and other serious self-determination organizations in Yoruba Land because we told him that he is merely after his personal interest and not the interest of the Yoruba people.
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“Therefore, I urge you all to ignore all his agents within our system and be more focused in our struggle for freedom and liberation.”
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