Yorubas are ready to die in pursuit of our Oduduwa Republic__ Gani Adams

The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams, has asserted that the Yoruba people are ready to die in the pursuit of the actualization of the Oduduwa Republic.

Moreso, the former Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, leader made the assertion while speaking in Lagos on Wednesday, adding that the Southwest reserves the legitimate right to struggle for the Oodua Republic.

Adams also lamented that the struggle has been hijacked by top politicians in the region.

“It is unfortunate that some people are determined to weaken the spirit of the agitators. Unfolding events in the last few weeks have shown that some prominent politicians have hijacked the struggle for the actualization of the O’odua Republic.

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“It is an attempt to distract us from the true and original intention of the struggle.

“But I want to say it here that the struggle to seek a new nation is the legitimate rights that we are determined to live and die for and we wouldn’t waiver in our beliefs and determination to liberate our race.”

However, you will recall that leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the South-West geo-political zone, in a meeting at the Lagos State House have opposed separatist agitations and hate speeches in the country and restated their belief in one Nigeria.

At the meeting were APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; former APC Interim National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande; former Ogun State Governor, Chief Segun Osoba; House of Representatives Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila; Governors Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos), Gboyega Oyetola (Osun), and Dapo Abiodun (Ogun) among others.

The leaders urged those agitating for separate countries to desist while calling on the government to ensure devolution of powers to the federating units to address Nigeria’s instability.