#OduduwaRepublic: Why FG Should Call For A Referendum – Yoruba Group—-Nigerians have the right to agree on policies and laws that should be continued or discontinued, Yoruba One Voice (YOV) insists.
The group has demanded that the government give it’s citizens the right to choose for themselves whether or not they want to stay together or go their separate ways, hence the referendum.
The YOV Secretary-General, Sina Okanlomo, spoke in South Africa after a rally on the state of Nigeria added that letters had been sent to the UN, EU, US, AU and embassies, on “peaceful decoupling of the Yoruba territory from Nigeria”.
According to him, it was in the interest of the South-West region and indigenes in other states to exit “the current political format” due to age-long challenges.
“We are entitled to our rights. There is an urgent need for a referendum for us to know the basis for our existence. The rallies came as the best alternative because Yorubas in the Diaspora strongly owe our allegiance to Oodua Republic.
“The Yoruba are tired of this system. A country where the security situation is porous; where a governor was attacked severally even with an array of security operatives. A country where citizens cannot hold peaceful rallies.
“A country ravaged by nepotism, bigotry, unemployment, infrastructure deficit, killings, banditry, terrorism, and economic doom. A country where there is no fund in the national treasury and citizens subjected to poverty.”
