The Yoruba community in the 19 Northern states have distanced themselves from agitations for Oduduwa Republic.
Acting under the auspices of Yoruba Welfare Group Worldwide (YWGW), they protested in Kaduna on Sunday against the agitations for the Yoruba people’s secession from Nigeria.
Speaking on behalf of the protesters, President of YWGW, Abdlhakeem Adegoke said they did not believe in the existence of a “Republic inside a Republic” and it was high time those fuelling the agitations stopped.
Adegoke, who was flanked by other leaders of the group, said that many Yoruba people that were born and bred in the North enjoyed cordial relationship with northerners and were not thinking of ending such harmonious relationship.
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He said that the protesters and all other Yoruba people in the 19 Northern states believed in the oneness and indivisibility of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“We want the entire world to realise the secret behind those who are agitating for Oodua Republic. To start with, 99 percent of them are those who benefitted from former president Goodluck Jonathan’s government.
“If truly they really want Oduduwa Republic, they would have insisted that Hausa, Igbo and other non-Yoruba should leave Yoruba land, but as long as they insisted on Hausa Fulani alone, they are not really sincere with their agitation.
“Secondly, in Yoruba land today, we have many facts to prove to the entire world that what they are doing is political. Looking at the situation on ground in Yoruba land today, politically, it is only APC and others, and in their agitation, there is no single APC members with them.
“The number of Yoruba in the North is more than three state in Yoruba land, our investment in the North is more than five trillion, what do they prepared for us to come and do at home,” Adegoke said.