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2023: Oduduwa Youths Backs S’East Presidency

May 19, 2021 8:35 am

Youths from the South-west under the auspices of Oduduwa Youth Parliament has thrown their weight behind the clamour for Igbo presidency in 2023.

The youth group led by their Speaker, Abdulmajid Oladimeji who disclosed this on Tuesday while conferring a title on Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu as the ‘Mayegun of Oduduwa parliament‘ (leader of peace) in Owerri noted that they have decided to support the Igbo based on equity and fairness to the zone.

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Oladimeji therefore averred that they have considered to use Iwuanyanwu as a pivot …

Soyinka Attacks Balarabe Over Comment On Oduduwa Republic

January 21, 2020 2:25 pm

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka on Tuesday condemned remark by Balarabe Musa, former governor of Old Kaduna State on the establishment of Amotekun by Southwest governors.

Musa had over the weekend alleged that Southwest establishment of Amotekun was a ploy by Yorubas to create Oduduwa Republic.

However, Soyinka said Musa was wrong about his assertion on the reason Amotekun was established by the Southwest region.

In a statement, the Nobel Laureate said: “Balarabe is sadly, but I hope not tragically wrong. I invoke the tragic dimension here because the making

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Amotekun, Ploy By Yoruba Leaders To Create Oduduwa Republic

January 19, 2020 6:28 am

A former governor of old Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has said that the main reason the leaders and governors of the Southwest region set up the new security outfit, Operation Amotekun was to create Oduduwa Republic.

NAN reported that Governors in the South West region had established and inaugurated the security outfit to curb the menace of herdsmen attacks in their region.

But Musa, in an interview with the Sun, warned that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government must not allow the operation of such security network, adding that it falls out of the established laws of the country.

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I Insist, We Are Sons, Daughters of Oduduwa, Not Yoruba

November 2, 2019 3:54 am

I just read the contribution of Professor Stephen Banji Akintoye, a notable and respected historian, to the burning debate about the origin and meaning of the word Yoruba. I scrutinised his arguments and I considered his sources. I welcome his submissions but I respectfully disagree with his conclusions. I maintain my original position and I stand by what I wrote in my essay: I am not a Yoruba but a son of Oduduwa.

There are two demeaning and insulting names and words that the Fulani gave and used to describe southerners. Firstly came “Nyamiri” (meaning ‘fetcher of water’) in reference …