Ilana Omo Oodua, the head of the Yoruba self-determination movement, and Professor Banji Akintoye narrated historical injustices, emphasizing how the Yoruba people were singled out and subjected to oppression in 1962 without any kind of justification. CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
During the time, the Nigerian government imprisoned their leader and restricted their autonomy in the southwest by declaring a state of emergency.
According to what Professor Banji Akintoye said in an interview with Punch News, “So, we want to go back to that. That’s not an unreasonable thing to say. However, we look a little deeper than that. We believe that if we were to return to the regions of the 1950s and we were managing our affairs, several things would be possible. One, we did not commit any offence in 1962 before the heads of Nigeria ganged up against us and declared a state of emergency in Nigeria in the southwestern part of Nigeria and put our leader in prison.” CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
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