Restructuring: Prominent Yoruba Leaders Threaten To Pull Yoruba Nation Out Of Nigeria |The Source

By Akinwale Kasali

Yoruba Leaders under the  aegis of Voice of Reason, VOR, has vowed to wrestle the Yoruba Nation out of Nigeria if the President Muhammadu Buhari administration fails to restructure the nation before the 2023 elections

The Prominent Yoruba Elders comprising of 75 Persons said they would do everything within their power to pull the Yoruba Nation out of the alleged shackles of the Nigeria entity.

Acting under the aegis of Voice of Reason (VOR), a socio-cultural group, the elders made this known in an advertorial on page 25 of The Punch Newspaper

Some of the elders that signed the advertorial include: former Chief of Army Staff, General Alani Akinrinade; former Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oye Ibidapo-Obe; co-founder, EKO Hospitals, Olorogun Sonny Kuku; and spokesperson, Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin.

According to the elders, the 1999 constitution under which the country is being governed is “flawed” and designed to give undue advantage to the Northern regions of the country over their Southern neighbours.

“The Yoruba people are irrevocably committed to a fundamental restructuring of this current union within the shortest possible time, preferably, before the elections, failing which, we Yoruba people may have to exercise our option not to continue to be part of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as presently constituted.

“In the inalienable right to self-determination guaranteed by the United Nations Charter, we are prepared to use ALL means and resources available to us to extricate our people from this failed, unfair and unworkable union,” the advertorial read in part.