The Nation Newspaper Trifling with agitation: Yoruba Nation Army
Two Saturdays ago in Ibadan, a group of starry-eyed agitators allegedly inspired and indoctrinated by Modupe Onitiri-Abiola, one of the widows of the late, carried out an utterly inept attempt to proclaim and assert the independence of the Yoruba from the Federal Republic of Nigeria. They chose the Oyo State secretariat and the House of Assembly as the symbolic epicenter of attack to underscore their revolt against the system, particularly the country’s stifling political structure.
The Yoruba may be a fractious and republican people, but they are nevertheless calculating and in some respects farsighted. As attractive as self-determination is, they were reluctant to embrace Prof Akintoye’s perspective on the subject, a reluctance helped in no small measure by the dithering of the group headed by the mercurial professor, not to say the group’s shambolic bookkeeping.
There are indications that the Yoruba Nation agitators planned their action to engulf the whole Southwest. Hopefully the authorities, having again been caught flatfooted despite the magnitude of the plot, will get to the bottom of the revolt.
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