The head of Yoruba self-determination movement, Ilana Omo Oodua (IOOW), has called Sunday’s Owo Church assault a statement of war against the Yoruba public.
On Sunday, June 5, shooters went after St. Francis Catholic Church in Owaluwa area of Owo, central command of Owo Local Government Area of Ondo state, killing more than 50 individuals from the assemblage, during the chapel gathering, while a few others were left harmed.
The outfitted men who attacked the congregation in Governor Rotimi Akeredolu’s farm house in Volkswagen Golf 4, struck around 11:15 am at the pinnacle of the assistance, shot irregularly into the congregation while some of them positioned themselves at the entry of the congregation to keep individuals from getting away from the congregation.
Prof Banji Akintoye, head of Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide has now censured the assault, saying such can’t reoccur.
Akintoye said, “The impudence of the Fulani pirates should be honestly and gallantly went up against to demonstrate to their backers that the Yoruba public can never be threatened or enslaved.”
The Ilana gathering’s chief, in an assertion by the Communications Secretary, Mr Maxwell Adeleye, named, “Owo Catholic church assault is a formal statement of war against Yoruba individuals – Akintoye”, approached Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, to proclaim a crisis against the exercises of Fulani herders in the state with quick impact.
The statement read,
“We have stated it very expressly that the Yoruba people need to negotiate their exit from Nigeria as a matter of urgency, but our partisan political actors in Yorubaland never took us serious. We warned them that there’s fire on the mountain, but we were mocked because of their personal aggrandisement.
“Today, we have all been encircled, most especially, in Lagos. For herdsmen to have the effrontery of bombarding a church in Yorubaland to kill some people, shows that we are now in a realistic danger.
“My urgent advice to Governor Akeredolu is to pick up the gauntlet and declare an emergency against the activities of all Fulani herdsmen in the state with immediate effect. We have now been taken for granted. We need not pretend anymore. We must demand unanimously, an exit from Nigeria.
“We, the Yoruba people, cannot live in the same country with characters whose idea of common citizenship in Nigeria is to brutalise, subjugate and even exterminate us. It is time to leave these characters now. All stakeholders – the elites, traditional rulers, our women should act now.
“All the South-West states, including the Yoruba leaders in Kogi and Kwara states should equally declare an emergency against the activities of Fulani herdsmen. We must now take our destinies into our hands,”
