The leader of the Yoruba Self Determination Group, Professor Banji Akintoye, and Yoruba Nation Activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho have distanced themselves from a group of agitators that invaded the Oyo State Government Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, on Saturday.
Akintoye said those involved were not fighting for Yoruba interests but against the Yorubas in their conduct.
The available information indicated the group appointed an interim government for the Yoruba Nation and decided to take over the region from the Oyo State secretariat, which informed the deployment of men in military camouflage.
Prof. Akintoye said: “I am not connected; I have no contact, and I do not know anything about Onitiri and her group. I don’t know what they are doing.
” I learnt they are engaged in some sort of insanity in Ibadan, but that is entirely theirs, and it has nothing to do with me or people like Chief Sunday Igboho who are working with me.
“We are the authentic Yoruba Nation Movement. We are not connected. We are the people fighting for Youna Nation freedom, and we will win the war peacefully and in an orderly manner.
“They are not struggling for the Yoruba Nation, they are struggling against the Yoruba Nation. I was not aware of the situation that happened in Ibadan until I was informed by Chief Sunday Igboho this morning. I am not part of it. They are not ours. They are followers of Onitiri. It is a lunatic fringe. We in this struggle won’t act in such a manner.”
Sunday Igboho said he will never be involved in such madness, noting that anytime he wants to engage in any struggle, he will always make it public and carry other stakeholders along.
He said, “I know nothing about it. I am not even aware of those behind it. If I am going to do anything, either early or any struggle for Yoruba Nation, you know we will inform people ahead.
“We will announce our plans, and all our leaders and other stakeholders will also be involved, and we will collaborate to do so.
“So, anything they now do on their own, whether they attack the government, a military barrack, or a police station, I know nothing about it and I am not part of it.”