When challenged, the Yoruba would often marshal robust response to adversarial stimuli. Contemporary struggles of the Yoruba date back to the West African Students Union founded by Yoruba nationalists – Ladipo Solanke and Herbert Bankole-Bright in 1925. WASU mopped up a whole generation of students from the 1930s into the firmament of the independence struggle. Virtually every student of that era went through WASU.
There is nothing subversive about self-determination. “The post-colonial state can pretend it is absolute, it is not. People are transcending it, bypassing it, subverting it and renegotiating their existence in it or their exit. The most enduring is the ethnonational model of contestation.” Switzerland has a clause of secession. Vladimir Illich Lenin in “On The National Question” did not see the newly created USSR lasting for more than sixty years.
I cannot end this without addressing the Trojan horses of division among the Yoruba. A united front cannot be forged with cryptofascists on one hand; that is, empire builders who have subordinated the superstructure of the state to their interests and fifth columnists and agent provocateurs like Muric on another. All these people are working against the ethos of the Kiriji treaty.
A special Franklin Delano Roosevelt -type special legislative session to take out 55 items from the Exclusive Legislative List in Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution. Any legislator from the South-West who does not sign up must be recalled.A special Franklin Delano Roosevelt -type special legislative session to take out 55 items from the Exclusive Legislative List in Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution. Any legislator from the South-West who does not sign up must be recalled.
Failure to do these will amount to buying time while the bomb ticks. May God guide us to light, justice and peace.
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