Yoruba Global Alliance Accuses Buhari’s Administration of Lawlessness
The Yoruba Global Alliance has condemned the dawn raid on the Ibadan, Soka residence of Mr. Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho Oosha on Thursday, July 1, 2021 and accused the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari of lawlessness.
The Director of Public Communications of Yoruba Global Alliance, Mr. Taju Tijani said in a statement issued yesterday that the whole nation is aware that Igboho resorted to self-help due to Fulani herdsmen’s widespread lawlessness, farm invasion, maiming, raping, kidnapping, and killing of Yoruba people in their own ancestral land. The group also stressed that all the agitations by Igboho had been peaceful and his awareness rallies conducted without violence, killing or bloodshed.
“The Yoruba Global Alliance unequivocally condemns this irrational surrender to barbarism, lawlessness, and the flagrant abuse of the fundamental human right of Mr. Sunday Adeyemo. It is becoming a norm under the Presidency of Muhammadu Buhari that gangsterism, knee jerk reaction, brutality, and suppression of the inalienable right of Nigerians to peaceful protest have become the standard yardstick to measure his administration.”
“In the place of respect for democratic mores, President Muhammadu Buhari has developed a strange fascination for militarism, haughty disdain for other nationalities that form this federation and ongoing state criminality which bothers on dictatorship.”
“What is becoming evident is the Muhammadu Buhari’s reflex to military diktat at the whiff of opposition and the brazenness of his actions that does not augur well for the peaceful co-existence of the disparate nationalities that form Nigeria,” the group explained.
The Yoruba argued that selfdetermination is a right endorsed by the United Nations and a constitutional guarantee among many nations of the world.
“So, any fatuous categorisations of self-determinists as criminals and troublemakers run counter to the spirit of democratic liberty. The Yoruba Global Alliance would like to remind Mr. President that nations are governed by laws and not by guns. Nigerians cannot be forced to cohere. This provocative and howling insanity must stop.