Politics
Akeredolu blasts Akintoye, reiterates position on Yoruba Nation
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has slammed the Ilana Omo Oodua leader, Prof Banji Akintoye, over the agitation for the creation of a Yoruba Nation.
WuzupNigeria had reported that Akintoye berated Akeredolu for initially rejecting the proposal as well as detaching his state from the One Million March protest planned to hold across the South-West.
However, in a statement released by the Special Assistant to Akeredolu on Special Duties and Strategy, Doyin Odebowale, on Thursday, Akeredolu reiterated that Ondo will not be part of the agitating for ethnic sovereignty.
The governor noted that Akintoye can not speak for the people because he is not a leader of Yorubaland.
Akeredolu further reminded Akintoye that the Yoruba people might be difficult to lead but they are not easily deceived.
The statement partly read in part, “Let it be reiterated again. There will be no agitation for secession in any part of Ondo State. Prof Akintoye should submit himself to the people if he is so desirous of representing them.
“it is presumptuous, denigrating and condescendingly spiteful for a group of hustlers, living largely in anonymity but struggling for relevance, to keep proclaiming and legislating on issues which affect the destiny of a whole people, without the faintest suggestion of paying even scant regard to their feelings or extending due courtesy to the real representatives of the people whose opinions they discount as unimportant.
” The people are discerning. They know the impostors. They have not forgotten the activities of the suborned agitators, the presumed penitent activists. The Ondo people, and indeed Yoruba are the easiest to lead but the most difficult to deceive. With them, sophistry and demagoguery have their limits.”
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