I Won’t Allow Agitation For Secession In Any Part Of Ondo State – Akeredolu

Chairman of the South West Governors’ Forum, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has come out to say that he won’t allow agitation for secession in any part of the state.

He recently spoke through his Senior Special Assistant on Special Duties and Strategies, Dr. Doyin Odebowale while reacting to a statement credited to the leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua, Prof Banji Akintoye on his stand on secession.

According to him, packs of unelected jokers won’t be allowed to declare sovereignty on behalf of the state, so they should not even try.

He added that it is presumptuous, denigrating and condescendingly spiteful for a group of hustlers, living largely in anonymity but struggling for relevance, to keep proclaiming and legislating on issues that affect the destiny of a whole people.

His words, “It is presumptuous, denigrating and condescendingly spiteful for a group of hustlers, living largely in anonymity but struggling for relevance, to keep proclaiming and legislating on issues which affect the destiny of a whole people, without the faintest suggestion of paying even scant regard to their feelings or extending due courtesy to the real representatives of the people whose opinions they discount as unimportant.”

“The people are discerning. They know the impostors. They have not forgotten the activities of the suborned agitators, the presumed penitent activists.”

“The Ondo people, and indeed Yoruba are the easiest to lead but the most difficult to deceive. With them, sophistry and demagoguery have their limits.”

“If the Governor cannot speak for his people, is it a pack of unelected jokers who will declare sovereignty on their behalf?”

“If an elected Governor represents himself, on whose behalf are these people agitating? Who appointed Prof Akintoye as the leader of the Yoruba? How many people participated in the sham?”

“It is very saddening to note that some of those who pretend to be the custodians of the pristine philosophy of value propounded by the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, SAN, fail to see the connection between the Livestock Transformation Programme and the attempts by the current administration in Ondo State to resuscitate the Akunnu and Auga Ranches.”