YAF Stages Rally Against Yoruba Succession, Describes The Act As Treason
Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
A group known as the Yoruba Appraisal Forum, has condemned the actions of some Yoruba Elders calling for succession of the race out of Nigeria.
The group staged a rally in Ibadan on September 1, 2020 as against the decisions of the elders that are agitating for succession.
Some of the protesters who had gathered at the popular Total Garden Roundabout, proceeded in their peaceful protest to The Government Secretariat Agodi Ibadan.
They were seen carrying various placards inscriptions which stated as thus: “We are not in 1967-1979, “Don’t Allow Another Civil War, “Succession will give us war”, “Don’t Turn Our Greenland To War Zone, We Say No To Succession, We Are Not In Support Of Succession, among others.
In a statement issued and signed by it’s national coordinator, Adeshina Animashaun, called on Governor Seyi Makinde and other major stakeholders in South-West Nigeria to rise up to the challenge that some of Yoruba elders are about to create for the region.
According to Animashaun, he stated that “Those people by their nefarious and unpatriotic activities, bent on bringing hardship and disaster to the peace loving people of the South West.
Animashaun stated further that the YWC President General, Prof. Banji Akintoye, in a press statement, had disclosed that the membership of the Yoruba-speaking nation of UNPO was contained in a letter addressed to him through the YWC coordinator for Europe by the UNPO Secretary General, Ralph Bunches.
“Your Excellency, the antics and body language of the YWC are enough clear indications of the sinister plans by some of these so-called Yoruba self-determination groups and their leaders like Prof. Akintoye, to lead their innocent and unsuspecting people to secede from Nigeria.
Animashaun noted that with Amotekun under the control of YWC are planning to sustain unprovoked attacks and intensify the provocation of other Nigerians, especially Northerners, in the pursuit of thier selfish and devilish aim of seceding and dismembering Nigeria.
In his own assertion, the Publicity Relation Officer of the group, Comrade Oloketuyi Ojo said, we are all gathered here to say that we are not in support of any group that is clamouring for the succession of Yoruba from Nigeria.
Ojo said, we cannot be part of anything that our traditional rulers are not part of, we have even confirmed that our Governor’s in South west are not part of it, it’s a treasonable act, which is punishable under the law.
In his response to the protesters, the Executive Assistant to Governor Makinde on Security Matter, said he commended the protesters for making their protest a peaceful one.
He said, “I commend you for this peaceful protest, for you have demonstrated your grievance on a peaceful note, and now that you have expressed your yourselves in peace, I can assure you that I will deliver all your messages to the Governor.
