Yoruba intelligentsia group, Voice of Reason Advocacy for Social Development Foundation, otherwise known as VOR, has launched a grass-root campaign to sensitise the Yoruba people on the need to unanimously support the campaign for the abolition of 1999 Constitution.
The group said the abolition of the current constitution would pave the way for a regional referendum where the people would vote to decide on their nationhood.
The group comprises accomplished Yoruba elders in the medical, academics, law, media, public relations, finance, public administration, accounting, entrepreneurship, information technology and other fields.
They said they initiated the move to let the Yoruba people know that the major factor responsible for under-development and misgovernance brouhaha in Yorubaland is the 1999 Constitution which they described as fraudulent and antithetical to equity and development.
In actualising its vision, the group is currently sponsoring radio jingles in front line radio stations in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to pilot its mobilisation drive.
In a related development, VOR, in preparation for a million-man consultative forum scheduled to hold soon in Ibadan, has launched a registration portal embedded in his website, vor.org.ng, requesting all the formal and informal sectors in Oyo State to register for participation.
Those being invited to register are market men and women, artisan groups, professional bodies, student groups, socio-cultural and socio-political groups in the pacesetter state.
According to a statement by a member of VOR sub-committee on mass mobilisation, Seyi Roberts, VOR is committed to ensuring that the masses are actively carried along in the struggle for the restoration of Yoruba nationhood.
He said the restoration “must begin with the abolition of military imposed and fraudulent 1999 Constitution that breeds poverty, under-development, poverty, starvation, corruption and gross misgovernance.”
Aside from the ongoing radio campaign in Ibadan, VOR has erected banners and billboards in all strategic locations in the ancient city, urging the people to register to support the #End1999Constitution.
Sunday Tribune sighted some of these billboards along Lagos-Ibadan expressway, inward Ibadan, Mapo Hall area, Iwo Road and another one opposite the University of Ibadan.
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