The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams has said that any plan to stage a sit-at-home protest in Lagos State would be fiercely resisted.
Adams, who leads a faction of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), gave the warning in an interview with Tribune.
He reacting to remarks by a Finland-based factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Simon Ekpa.
Ekpa had disclosed IPOB’s plan to hold a sit-at-home exercise in Lagos, akin to the one declared in the South-East.
The sit-at-home exercise is one of the ways the group is demanding the release of its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
However, Adams warned against holding any sit-at-home in Lagos, saying it was tantamount to “repeating the mistake of the 1970s”.
According to the Yoruba generalissimo, the South-West is not part of the “Biafra Republic” demanded by IPOB, therefore should not be the target of any sit-at-home exercise.
Adams added that it is preposterous for “outsiders to dictate or impose their agenda on people of other regions who they cohabit with as residents’”.
“I can’t go to the South East now and say I want to decide for the people of that region. So, it is not possible to import the South-East agenda into Yorubaland. It would be counter-productive. We advise him (Ekpa) to drop that idea.
“He should not try that. The South West is not Biafra Republic. Any attempt to impose the Biazsfra Republic agenda will be resisted. He should desist from repeating the mistake of the 1970s. He should be very, very careful.
“They are entitled to their opinion, but South West is not their Biafran region. He should be very, very careful,” the Aare Onakakanfo said.