What new Yoruba leader, Prof Akintoye said about region, Nigeria in first speech
Akintoye, a 84-year-old academic and former Senator was elected as the Yoruba nation leader by various Yoruba organisations on August 22 in Ibadan, Oyo State.
He said: “For our Yoruba nation at war, these are no times for any form of contention over anything whatsoever. We must not stumble into the mistake of even letting it seem as if we are disrespecting, despising, or jettisoning the forces and the persons that have been fighting in the Yoruba cause, or as if we despise and belittle the worried, distressed, and mostly young masses of our people. Doing either will hurt our Yoruba nation immeasurably and weaken us in the face of current dangers.
“Hardly any other fighter in the Yoruba struggle today has worked as long or as closely with Chief Fasoranti as I have done. Hardly any has known Chief Fasoranti as a patriotic son ofour Yoruba nation as long as I have known him. None knows my record in the fight as long or as fully as Chief Fasoranti does. Hardly any admires Chief Adebanjo’s loyalty and fortitude more than I do.
“Moreover, we, individually and collectively, have the duty of helping our whole Yoruba nation’s political class to re-embrace the old Yoruba wisdom that not all things that are at variance are necessarily at enmity, and that persons who are working positively in widely different ways in society are all nevertheless serving the king.
“With all of us working as a determined team through the instrumentality of a worldwide Yoruba organization, we shall work closely and positively with, and give encouragement and assistance to, the tens of organizations that are standing up for the defence of our Yoruba nation and the protection and promotion of our nation’s interests.
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