Yorubas should unite

The ongoing agitation for Oodua Republic is a tragic comment on the integrity, intelligence and enlightenment of the people of the region.

It is unthinkable that a race reputed as the most educated in Nigeria will choose miscreants to fight their cause. The miscreants can be forgiven for not knowing that a project such as this is a mirage for two reasons; it is ill-timed and therefore, ill-fated. Two, it is in violent clash with enlightened procedures which the educated people of the region should know even if the miscreants could not learn from the recent experience of fellow Nigerians.

It is not now that people of good will are beginning to question the appropriateness of a region always being used to install tyranny and always being the victims that we should be asking for a Republic that will compromise our chances in the next dispensation. We cannot afford to divide before a battle with our enemies.

Not now that our political structure is at the weakest and our politicians are most vulnerable. Not now that some great minds are beginning to objectively appraise the merit of true federalism and the value of unemotional restructuring.

Professor Taofiq Adesina Azeez

Abuja.

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