Afenifere slams Yoruba Nation agitators, says invasion of Oyo secretariat an act of terrorism 

The Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has condemned the invasion of the Oyo State secretariat by some Yoruba Nation agitators, describing it as a terrorist act.

Speaking on Tuesday in a statement in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital the Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of ARG, Michael Ogungbemi, urged the security agencies to investigate the self proclaimed “secessionists” in order to ascertain their true intentions.

“It frightens us as Southwesterners to hear that people from Yoruba , known for their education, intellect and civility be involved in such act of lawlessness and terrorism. That was unacceptable and all lovers of peace and democracy must rise up to defend our nation,” the statement read.

“Self determination as contained in the UN Charters of Rights can’t be done in such a dastardly fashion. How could a small fraction of people, who were hardly known in Yoruba race  be agitating on behalf of over 70 million Yoruba people for self actualisation? Such agitation was alien and unpopular in the region.

“We in ARG and other discerning Nigerians believed that it was a desperate attempt to destabilize the progressing government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. But we are ready to resist this.

“It was sad and disheartening that this came when the region was just recovering from kidnapping and banditry being perpetrated by some foreigners. How could we now recover from this and then begin to allow self inflicted injuries to be so imposed?.

“This is a country being governed by law. The security agencies must broaden its investigations into this matter. We suspect that the agitators were  being goaded by some unseen hands. Whoever found culpable must be made to account for his misdeeds.”