Over 1,500 members of the Federation of Yoruba Consciousness and Culture, drawn from the 36 states of the Federation and FCT, Abuja, converged in Ibadan on Thursday, expressing concern over the dominance of non-native speakers in the region’s economic and political sectors.
The ethnic group led by its global president, Basorun Kunle Oloyede Adesokan, said at its National General Assembly that the adoption of liberal democracy posed a danger to the development of the region.
He disclosed that the region’s economy is being controlled by non-natives, submitting that if precautionary measures are not taken, non-natives would soon be elected to represent the region in political offices.
Adesokan, who described liberal democracy as the genocide of the indigenous people, stressed the need for the region to take its rightful place in economic and political space.
He alluded to what happened in Australia 300 years ago when non-indigenous people became minorities.
“This is a good example of liberal hypocrisy and the hypocrisy of democracy. It is a good example of the genocide of indigenous people.
“This is why we are using our total strength, personal finance, and energy to promote the preservation of Yoruba civilization and race across the world.
“Right in our lifetime, non-Yorubas, mostly from the Southeast and South, or any section of the Nigerian state, will be allowed to sponsor political movements in the Southwest States that will elect non-Yoruba-speaking governors and non-Yoruba-speaking political leaders.
“Their campaign manifesto is to chase out Yoruba Obas and Yoruba political leaders and ban Yoruba if given a chance.
“This is what liberal democracy can do. It can be weaponised to destroy indigenous people. It is only conquered people that will allow non-indigenous people to control their economy and politics.
“Yorubas must control our politics in all Yoruba-speaking spaces 100 per cent.”
Adesokan, who is a former Secretary General of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), urged the political leaders not to allow the vision of the sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, to die.
Chief Awolowo’s footprints are all over the Southwestern states, and as a result, the present political leaders should emulate him.
Today, leaders should at least emulate our sage footsteps instead of all the temporary empowerment programmes being used to cajole the electorates at the turn of the election every four years.
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