The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and socio-political organization, Afenifere, has condemned the invasion of the Oyo State House of Assembly in Ibadan by some suspected Yoruba nation agitators.
Afenifere , in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the body, Comrade Jare Ajayi, stated that those who took the said step did not act in the interest of the Yorubas whom they alleged to be representing.
recalls that some people who claimed to be Yoruba nation agitators stormed the premises of Oyo State House of Assembly, Agodi Secretariat, Ibadan, regarded as the political capital of Yorubaland, on Saturday. The invaders, according to a video clip making the rounds, claimed that a purported ‘Democratic Republic of the Yoruba’ had been created out of Nigeria. Reacting, Afenifere in its statement on Sunday, stated that there is no such thing as the Democratic Republic of Yoruba.
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