Yoruba nation: APC kicks as Akintoye attacks Tinubu

The head of the Yoruba Country self-assurance battle, Teacher Banji Akintoye, has said he didn't approve a congress of the peak body of the Yoruba self-assurance battle, Ilana Omo Oodua Around the world, being supposed to occur in Ibadan on Tuesday, November 1 (today).

Akintoye blamed the official possibility for the All Reformists Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, of utilizing a few individuals from the self-assurance battle to obliterate the development in view of his official desire.

The IOO pioneer, who expressed this in a proclamation on Monday, said he needed to do this to expose the case by Funmi Soyemi, the active Executive of the Ilana Break The board Panel of the association, that a world congress of Ilana Omo Oodua will be held tomorrow in Ibadan.

"I'm conveying this short message to all Yoruba individuals overall that I approved no gathering of Ilana Omo Oodua to be held tomorrow in Ibadan, Oyo State. Those behind the social occasion are a couple of individuals working for Nigerian legislators not set in stone to ruin our respectable battle.

"I thus separate myself from such a get-together and I believe that the entire world should realize the gathering is unlawful, unapproved, and obscure to Ilana Omo Oodua Around the world. In this manner, anything goals are reached at the gathering are invalid and void."

The assertion further proceeded to take note of that, "Likewise, Bola Tinubu has taken steps to annihilate Ilana Omo Oodua and other serious self-assurance associations in Yorubaland on the grounds that we let him know that he is just after his own advantage and not the interest of the Yoruba public.

"Thus, I beseech you to dismiss every one of his representatives inside our framework and become more centered around our battle for opportunity and freedom."

Keyamo responds

When reached for response, the Main Representative of the All Reformists Congress Official Mission Committee, Festus Keyamo, couldn't quickly affirm in the event that the official applicant is booked to be at the congress of Ilana Omo Oodua in Ibadan on Tuesday (today).

He said, "The agenda of Asiwaju that I have for later is the Lagos Office of Business and Industry. I can't affirm in the event that he is going to the World Congress of Ilana Omo Oodua tomorrow at Ibadan."

When requested to respond to Akintoye's allegation that Tinubu is looking to obliterate the Yoruba self-assurance battle by utilizing a few individuals from the development, Keyamo pronounced that there was no bit of legitimacy in the charge.

He likewise questioned who chose Prof. Akintoye as the mouthpiece of the Yoruba race.

"Are the Yoruba a gathering who arrogate to themselves the initiative status? When did the Yoruba accumulate to choose a portion of these characters?

"I talk definitively on the grounds that I am likewise Yoruba and I reserve an option to be Afenifere with any Yoruba bunch. That is on the grounds that my mom is a full-blooded Yoruba lady, a princess of the high position in Ilaro. I'm an Egbado man myself. My most memorable cousin is the Olu of Ilaro. I can unhesitatingly profess to be essential for Afenifere.

"All I'm attempting to tell you is that the Yoruba have not designated any of such characters to talk for the Yoruba race," he said.

Akintoye said, "individuals arranging the congress are not many specialists of Nigerian lawmakers inside the battle. Bola Tinubu, the official competitor of the decision All Moderates Congress, is presently enlisting some power-chasing people inside the self-assurance battle to either dishonor me or annihilate the development totally.