Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has warned the Federal Government even as he claimed that the government was intimidating the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, over his (Igboho’s) recent petition on the Yoruba Nation.
Recall that Igboho had, on Saturday, submitted a 25-page petition to the office of UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, at 10 Downing Street, London, pushing for the recognition of a sovereign Yoruba nation.
Igboho in a statement signed on Wednesday, described the reported summoning of Montgomery by the Nigerian government as unnecessary. He labelled it an attempt to pressure the diplomat. He also insisted that such moves would not derail the ongoing push for a Yoruba nation.
The statement read: “The British government colonised Nigeria, and we are well within our rights to submit a petition to them regarding our demand for a sovereign Yoruba nation. Nigeria gained independence on October 1, 1960, from the British government, but the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates in 1914 was a decision made by the British.”
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Igboho explained that Yoruba people have a constitutional right to demand secession 100 years after the amalgamation.
“The main reason we submitted our letter to the UK government is to have them serve as a witness before the United Nations whenever the issue of the Yoruba nation is brought up at an international level,” the statement continued.
He noted that the standard response time for such official letters is around two weeks, suggesting that Prime Minister Starmer might not have even read the petition yet.
“We remain committed to peaceful, non-violent, and legitimate methods of ensuring the birth of a Yoruba nation. Our people should stay calm and resolute, confident in our collective struggle for emancipation so that we can harness our great potential in a vibrant Yoruba nation once it is created out of the current Nigerian contraption. We will continue to seek international backing and bring our agenda before the global community,” the statement concluded
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