Oyo Massacre: Akintoye Says Buhari Govt Backs Fulani Terrorists And Has DeclaredWar Against Yoruba

Professor Banji Akintoye, the top leader of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, claims that the massacre of Yorubas at Igangan, Oyo State, was a declaration of war by “Fulani terrorists.”

Akintoye accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s government of supporting “terrorist herders who have been maiming, killing, rapping, and exterminating the Yoruba people and their belongings.”

Akintoye urged Yorubas to “arm themselves with anything they can lay their hands on,” according to a statement sent by his spokesman, Maxwell Adeleye, on Monday.

He praised Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu for his stance on the Igangan atrocity, and urged the governors of the South-West to put constitutional concerns aside in order to protect their people.

“Yoruba land has been surrounded, and we must act now”, the renowned scholar declared, adding that Yoruba people have never been conquered.

Yoruba youths should prepare for “technical, spiritual, and physical warfares,” according to the second republic member of the Senate.

“The Fulani herdsmen attack must never be allowed to succeed anywhere in Yoruba land again”.

“The Federal Government of Nigeria has failed woefully to protect the Yoruba people and other indigenous peoples of Nigeria’s South and the Middle Belt against these invading, marauding forces.

“When we consider the behavior of the federal government in the face of this danger to the indigenous peoples and citizens of Nigeria, we can not avoid the conclusion that the federal government is a sponsor of the terror in our land.

“The federal government started by saying and doing nothing about the terrorism while apparently instructing the security agencies to do nothing to confront the terrorism.

“The federal government persistently gives to the wide world a false picture of the situation by claiming that everything is a product of climate change even as the Fulani insistently issues statements that their mission is to subdue all peoples and forcefully take their land.

“While allowing the Fulani to move freely with and to import various categories of weapons into Nigeria, the federal government prohibited the possession of any kind of firearms by any indigenous citizens of Nigeria.”

Akintoye lamented that authorities sent the Police and Army to seize privately owned weapons including those citizens had earlier been licensed for hunting and sports.

“In the light of all the foregoing, we call on all our governors to stop letting objections by federal officials obstruct the defense of our peoples.

“We call on all Yoruba people to rise up as one to defeat this danger. We Yoruba have a proud history that we have never been conquered.

“Let us not succumb to conquest now. Let us thank the countless young people of our land who have been standing up against the invasion of our land.”

On Sunday, the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams said over 50 people were murdered in Igangan and that “war is imminent in the country”.