ANYTHING SHORT OF A STEPDOWN BY CURRENT LEADERSHIP ECHELON RENDERS THE YORUBA STRUGGLE ILL-FATED - Ademoye
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“NINAS, an invaluable alliance admittedly of superior intellectual argument demonized; who was there?
Recourse! Exonerate NINAS.
The singular most momentous misgiving tearing our people apart hinges on the decision to abandon NINAS under subjective reasoning.” - Sam Ola Olu Ademoye, a. k. a. Amotekun
The above excerpt encapsulates the core reason for the call for the ouster of the acclaimed Yoruba Leader, Prof. Banji Akintoye by someone who sees a radical turnover of the incumbent leadership echelon as the means to attain the aspiration of the Yoruba nationality. He characterized the rationale for the act to be motivated by “subjective reasoning”. Ademoye did not further elucidate the specifics.
The critic was displeased by what has become of leading pan-Yoruba groups under the Akintoye leadership. He feels compelled by the Yoruba Omoluabi code to speak the truth with boldness. “By individual introspection, our omoluabi instinct says our collective and its methodology for our joint emancipation is haphazard, hapless and therefore dangerous.” Sam Ademoye seems to be speaking the minds of many in the Yoruba elite corps who feel dissatisfied and disappointed by the path quest for a better-assured future within Nigeria or outside of it. The most significant matter here is that a displeased stakeholder feels motivated enough by his cultural instinct for truth and boldness to ask for the voluntary stepdown of a leader he had followed devotedly till now. His anguish is evident.
Prof. Banji Akintoye was installed the Yoruba Leader in a big ceremony in Ibadan attended by Yoruba stakeholders within Nigeria and in Diaspora. He later was asked to become the Chairman of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-determination (NINAS). He performed creditably in overseeing the final packaging and declaration of the NINAS’ Constitutional Force Majeure (CFM) on December 16, 2020. As a Yoruba leader, the professor felt the direct impacts of the tug and pull that characterize the quest for his people’s sovereign ambition, which is being pursued through various roadmaps by different groups. NINAS is a multizonal alliance that articulates and represents the interests of the Middle Belt and South, not any ethnopolitical entity. Managing these contrasting tasks from the top leadership level may have become too much of a burden for Prof. Akintoye. According to Ademoye, the Yoruba Leader erred severely in his choices, especially as stated in the excerpt above.
The call for Prof. Banji Akintoye to step down as the Yoruba Leader by Sam Ademoye is passionate and can possibly represent the feelings of a substantial number in the Yoruba elite corps. But many other interest groups shall have their own say in the coming weeks and months before anyone should expect far-reaching changes in the Yoruba top leadership echelon. It is commendable that Ademoye has made his case with respect and decorum. NINAS still considers the Yoruba self-determination an integral part of our quest to end the enslavement of the indigenous nationalities of the South and Middle Belt ASAP.
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