Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has again said that those calling for Yoruba Nation are not representatives of the Yorubas.
He declared that he would not support the agitation for Yoruba Nation by a group of people.
The Governor while reacting to a statement credited to a group under the auspices of the Ilana Omo Oodua led by Prof Banji Akintoye, said the Yoruba people would not allow the “impostors” to lead any agitation on their behalf.
Akeredolu noted that the people of the southwest region would not be cajoled to support any secession move.
Recalled that Akintoye had condemned agitation for the creation of a Yoruba Nation by some people
He stressed that the Governor only spoke for himself and not the people of Ondo State.
However, Akeredolu in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Special Duties and Strategy, Doyin Odebowale, said that Akintoye was not a leader of Yorubaland and could not speak for the people.
The statement reads in part “Let it be reiterated again. There will be no agitation for secession in any part of Ondo State. Prof Akintoye should submit himself to the people if he is so desirous of representing them.
“It is presumptuous, denigrating and condescendingly spiteful for a group of hustlers, living largely in anonymity but struggling for relevance, to keep proclaiming and legislating on issues which affect the destiny of a whole people, without the faintest suggestion of paying even scant regard to their feelings or extending due courtesy to the real representatives of the people whose opinions they discount as unimportant.
“The people are discerning. They know the impostors. They have not forgotten the activities of the suborned agitators, the presumed penitent activists. The Ondo people, and indeed Yoruba are the easiest to lead but the most difficult to deceive. With them sophistry and demagoguery have their limits”.
