Restructuring: Group charges Yoruba on unity

A group, South-West Think Tank (SWETT), has called on Yoruba to reflect critically on the success of the sit-at-home order to mark the 50th Anniversary of Biafra declaration in Nigeria, declaring that the Yoruba needed to unite in order to articulate what should be the race’s Agenda and achieve the much talked about restructuring of the country.

The order issued on May 30 by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) to Ndigbo and Biafrans to mark the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the defunct republic had recorded a huge success and even got International attention as it was also marked in over 70 countries across the globe.

SWETT’s spokesperson, Chief Femi Davies, made this call in a release made available to newsmen in Lagos on Sunday, saying it was sad that the Yoruba were yet to identify and choose to promote what should be the race’s Agenda despite the high level of education and exposure God blessed the Yoruba race with.

“If the Ibos can be so united to record over 80% compliance on May 30, every Yoruba conscious person should use this as a point of reflection and see the need for us to come together and articulate what should be the Yoruba agenda and seek ways of repositioning our race,” he said.

Davies called on every Yoruba man to set aside political, religious and ethnic bias which he was negating the race’s progress and desire to be well positioned in the polity called Nigeria.

“We should be preparing ourselves for the future in Nigeria, the quest for restructuring which is the clear way out of the political and economic logjam being witnessed should be addressed and in good time too.”

“By next year, the jostle for political positions will begin, we need to come together to see how our collective interests will be projected and protected. Yorubas should stop pretending that all is well while our physical, structural and moral values continue to nose dive while the political class continue to protect their pocket and the people wallow in penury.”

“This is the time for all Yoruba interest groups to come together in unity to save our race from strangulation in a forced marriage,” he said on behalf of the group.