Yoruba Group Urges New British PM To Deal With Nigeria’s Historic Errors

By Akinwale Kasali

Pan Yoruba Coalition, under the aegis of Apapo O’odua Koya, AOKOYA, has urged the new British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, to use her position to correct the historic injustice in Nigeria by supporting the campaign to correct alleged time-long errors.

In a letter sent to Downing Street on Wednesday, AOKOYA said successive British Prime Ministers had turned blind eye and  deaf ears to the festering calamity in Nigeria, a British creation which the group said is inching towards another African calamity.

In the letter signed by the group’s newly elected Assistant Foreign Affairs Secretary, Abdulahi  Olasunkanmi, Apapo Oodua Koya, (AOKOYA) said Britain has a heavy burden on her shoulders which if not addressed has the capacity to invent one of the worst human catastrophes.

The Coalition said two elements make the intervention of Britain in Nigeria’s slip into the abyss crucial: First, Britain is a permanent member of the United Nations, (UN) the world body which responsibility is to promote global peace and prevent war, secondly, Britain created Nigeria out of her own self-conceived economic interests without consideration for humanity and the fears and aspirations of indigenous communities that have continued to suffer cultural and economic genocide intensified with the handing over of Nigeria to the country’s most incompetent, vile, inept and retrogressive Fulani ethnic ruling class.

‘Nigeria is at a stage that war can be let loose any time. The fragments forced together in 1914 by Britain can no longer hold. The possibility of a violent collapse is real. We are certain the British intelligence services are aware of a tottering African country and certain the British political leaders are conscious of the hovering vultures.

“If only for the sake of our innocent children, women and the aged, you as a mother and the new Prime Minister of Britain should tell the political jackals in Nigeria that they should  unbundle the country and free the bottled up spirits to safe the country from needles war’, Olasunkanmi said.

The group said since the 1914 forceful amalgamation by Britain, Nigeria has been an atomic society in constant violent conflict with itself, a contradiction that once led to a civil war that took close to 1 million lives. ‘If one million people died between 1967 and 1970, how many people should die in another war if global voices fail to speak out against the torrents of repression, terrorism, stealing and brigandage the Fulani leadership and their cronies represent in Nigeria.

Apapo O’odua Koya, (AOKOYA) said Nigeria’s foreign debt is about $80b.

‘The country now services foreign debt with 120 percent of her earning. The state hosts and sustains fundamentalists who lay their hands on strategic positions from where they source funds to fuel terrorism and carnage which is spreading across Southern indigenous territories and the middle belt. Rural and urban communities of indigenous peoples have been invaded by armed terrorists whose actions have led to food insecurity, rape, death and ceaseless killings.’

AOKOYA recall that the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect said 35,000 Nigerians have been violently murdered by terrorists since 2009.

‘In 2021 alone, 2,600 Nigerians were killed by bandits. Thousands of women have been raped and children butchered. While Britain continues unimpeded economic relations with Nigeria, it would be humane for your country, which we believe is not in short of men and women of conscience to ask questions about a system in your former colony that is sustained by blood, avarice and bullets’ AOKOYA said.

The group said further ‘Your country has rolled out a 40billion pounds energy supply scheme to lower bills to save hundreds of thousands of businesses this winter. You have also rolled out various initiatives to deal with the pitfalls of the Ukraine war.

In Africa, the 200million Nigerians are waiting to see how your government will deal with the mess created in Nigeria with the forceful 1914 merger, a mess that has consumed millions of human souls and now threatening to consume even more millions as the country wobbles through a thick tunnel of misery and hopelessness.

‘Nigerians are footnotes in the books of their leaders. We urge you Madam Prime Minister put pressure Nigerian political class, especially President Mohammadu Buhari to release political detainees, allow  self determination exiles who have fled the country to return home and to allow the United Nations conduct a referendum on ethnic self determination.

AOKOYA said  ‘If you are in a position to rally Europe on any crisis in your continent, we think you should not be averse to doing the same thing in Nigeria to avoid what looks like an impending carnage in a country notorious for blood letting and horrendous human sufferings’.