EndSARS: Grand Council of Yoruba Youths Sues for Peace Among Ethnic Groups in Nigeria

EndSARS: Grand Council of Yoruba Youths Sues for Peace Among Ethnic Groups in Nigeria

A leading socio- cultural youth group in Nigeria, Grand Council of Yoruba Youths has sues for peace among all ethnic groups in Nigeria .

” PRESS RELEASE Monday 26/10/2020

End SARS protest turns End ThisHAVOC Prayer: GRAND COUNCIL OF YORUBA YOUTHS SUES FOR PEACE AMONG ETHNIC GROUPS IN NIGERIA, URGES SEYI MAKINDE TO APOLOGIZE FOR HOARDING TRUCK LOADS OF COVID – 19 PALLIATIVES IN AGODI SECRETARIAT, HAILS LEKAN ALABI @70

We will recall that under a bigger Umbrella of various ethnic youth Groups in Nigeria, Coalition for A Better Nigeria, we issued our last Press Release titled “Beware of #EndSARS protest metarmophosing to #EndSecurityNow Revolution” having observed some pocket of violence associated with the prolonged #EndSARS protest across our hitherto peaceful Nation.

Majority of Nigerians and the Employers of Labour survive on daily income and they were all glad that God averted the proposed NLC strike, over the simultaneous increase in the price of petroleum products and electricity tarrif; as well as the proposed Yoruba Seccessionist Rally of October 1, any of which would had drawn us backwards as a Nation because we all saw or read various declarations of solidarity from some interest Groups but with the ulterior motive to wreck havoc on the peaceful atmosphere in the Country under the pretext of either the NLC strike or October 1 Odu’a Republic Rally or possibly the two together.

Since advent of this nascent democracy, no reasonable individual is overtly or covertly left out of the campaign against police brutality and extra judicial killings

The latest Campaign took a new dimension simply because all these interest Groups nursing hidden agenda to protest grabbed it as “a long sought for opportunity” to show their stuffs to Nigeria. It’s indeed “an handshake beyond the elbow”.

We commend Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, alias “work in progress” for urgently taking the 5 – point demand of the EndSARS Protesters to Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, and handling it over to President Muhammadu Buhari directly in the full glare of the Press.

After this development, we later noticed that the list of the demands of EndSARS Protesters, without any identifiable leadership across the Country, kept on increasing both on their Placards and on social media space and these Protesters continued their daily agitation across the Country based on these endless requests.

Then it was clear that there was more to the protest and perhaps, the main reason why Mr President said in his speech that these Protesters took the Government prompt response to their 5 point demand for cowardice.

What baffled us most was the way various youth groups kept on springing up with endless demands to be met by the Government and it got to a point that one would have noticed that there was more to it really, especially when our sitting Governors, Chief Security Officers in their respective States, became targets of attacks from the hoodlums under the pretext of #EndSARS protest.

This started with massive looting, carnage, maiming and yet, many of us sat inside in our comfortable houses urging fire-on, on these People barricading the major Nigerian Roads with burning of tyres.

We, under the Coalition for A Better Nigeria, immediately came out to warn Nigerians of looming and greater cirises that could snowball into anarchy with the turn of events.

Our Political, Religious and Community Leaders also advised various Groups of Protesters to vacate the Nigerian Roads but they didn’t comply.

It was then crystal clear to all of us the real intention of several Groups hidding under the prolonged Protest across the Country. They asked the President to resign, sack Service Chiefs, sack the Cabinet members, bring in youths of under 50 into Federal Executive Council, endSARS, endSWART, reduce the salaries of Senators and Federal House Representatives’ Salaries (without considering whether this is within the responsibilities of Mr President), reduce the prices of food stuffs, increase minimum wage to N100, 000 (regardless of the fact that this was recently sorted out between the Government and the Nigerian Labour Congress), dissolve EFCC, dissolve ICPC, restructure Nigeria, end bad Governance, end Nigeria and so on. Let’s think of only “Resign and Reconstitute FEC” – A Confusionist Agenda.

The end results are now clear to the Whole World with the #EndSARS hoodlums on rampage who are now ending our Individual, Corporate and Government ecomonomies across the Country, after Mr President had brought SARS to an end.

We mourn all the departed Souls of both SARS extra judicial killings and EndSARS protest, sympathise with their breaved families, friends and associates; and we console all the living Victims across Nigeria, most especially the good people of Lagos State, from whom they fired their shots.

It was baptism of fire for their major targets, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State and in deed the economic mainstay of Nigeria in particular and Afican Continent at large, Lagos State.

The Nation had now been badly hit and we wouldn’t forget the identifiable faces in these epic outings against the peace loving Nigerians; and their individual roles.

Mr Nnamdi Kanu had denied the dreadful audio recording posted on social media, in which he boasted to continue burning major Yoruba heritages in Lagos State to avenge Lekki shootings on behalf of the affected families and kill People as he likes which had gone viral on social media and in a swift response coupled with his own attention seeking agenda, Mr Adeyinka Grandson (Pseudo name) of Young Yoruba for Freedom (YYF), posted a dangerous video on social media giving all Igbo 48 hours to leave Lagos State, but Barrister Dotun Hassan of Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide (YCYW), issued a statement on Saturday to calm down both Yoruba and Igbo living in Lagos after his claimed virtual meeting with the Ohaneze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide President General but most interesting aspect of it all, is that both Adeyinka Grandson and Barrister Dotun Hassan are in support of Prof Banji Akintoye’s advocacy for Odu’a Republic, which the Leader of Independent People of Biafra, Nnamid Kanu, also endorsed publicly from exile in UK.

The most painful aspect of Nnamdi Kanu’s careless speech is the way he berated the innocent man, the Political Strategist, Rave of the moment, A Trailblazer, long standing Human Rights’ Activist, Talents’ Hunter and International Philantrophist, an Achiever of uncommon dimension, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a way targeted at destroying his entire family and causing ethnic war between Yoruba and Igbo not only in Lagos State, but int the World at large.

We therefore urge all Yoruba Groups or Individuals to please shelve their Swords against all Igbo and Hausa living and working in Yoruba land and be patient till we have the outcome of the ongoing investigation into the Lekki shootings.

It will take us a very long time to come out of this economic set back.

While waiting for the outcome of the Panel of Enquiry, we also advise that all Perpetrators of this evil be brought to book to serve as deterrent to millions of others across the Globe

May God Almighty reward everyone according to his/her consent or involvement in the #EndSARS protest.

It’s no longer news that the Truck loads of the COVID-19 palliatives donated by CACOVID to the State Governments across Nigeria are stored in various warehouses by the State Governors both in the APC and PDP for various reasons known to them, which are now being looted by the #EndSARS hoodlums across Nigeria.

Politicking crept in, in Oyo State when Engr Akeem Olatunji and Mr Taiwo Adisa, the Spokeperson for the PDP, Oyo State and that of Governor Seyi Makinde respectively, started holding brief for their Boss, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on the reason why he kept very huge quantities of COVID – 19 Palliatives, just to make him holier than Pope among his Colleagues in Nigeria.

The good People of Oyo State had gathered authoritatively on BCOS Radio 98.5fm during the last week Newspapers’ Review Programme which is always using to promote Governor Seyi Makinde’s 2023 political ambition daily at 8am by both the Anchors of the Programme and their Regular Guest, Mr Micheal Ogunsina alias Amotekun.

Amotekun said during one of the last week’s editions that Governor Seyi Makinde felt jittery when One of his close friends who doubles as one of his Special Advisers announced to People that Oyo State Palliatives Warehouse is in the Agodi Secretariat.

Luck ran out of Amotekun during the programme when People snubbed his usual efforts to start defending Governor Seyi Makinde by saying “His Excellency had a plan to share them for the masses at appropriate period and that we should all condemn EndSARS hoodlums looting the State and Private Palliatives and call “a Spade a Spade”.

People responded that looting of food items shouldn’t be condemned because our Governors knew that People were seriously hungry and still kept such huge amount of Palliatives in their individual Warehouses; Agodi Secretariat in case of Oyo State.

It is on this note we call on Governor Seyi Makinde to tender unreserved apology for foisting deadly hunger on the innocent electorate that voted him into power last year through his wicked, uncaring, foolhardy attitude.

Welldone Comrade Amotekun and the BCOS Radio 98.5fm Yoruba Newspapers’ Review Achors, the good People of Oyo State are enjoying your unprofessional Campaign for the State Governor, PDP, daily, at the expense of all other Parties in the State. “Time will tell”.

We congratulate one of Leaders in Yorubaland, the former Chief Press Secretary to the 3 former Governors of Oyo State including Chief Bola Ige; One of Olu Omo of Ibadanland; the Ekefa Olubadan of Ibadanland and the First Cultural Ambassador of National Museum and monument, Ile – Ife, Osun State, Oloye Lekan Alabi @70.

Happy Birthday Sir! Igba Odun, Odun kan.

Comrade AWA Bamiji
Aare Apapo (President – General) Agbarjo Egbe Odo Yoruba (Grand Council of Yoruba Youths), founded in 2001 in Ibadan with the blessings of leadership of Afenifere and Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE)