The Yoruba Self Determination Movement (YSDM), has issued a warning against internal sabotage within the Yoruba nation in the struggle for self- determination.
In a statement issued by its General Secretary, Moses Ojo, after the online press briefing on Thursday, he said individuals whom he referred to as “enemies within,” have allegedly colluded with external forces to undermine the Yoruba peoples’ quest for sovereignty.
According to him, these traitors have worked against the interests of Yoruba people by sowing seeds of discord and disunity within Yoruba organisations and groups.
He pointed out that some individuals, motivated by financial gains and promises of influence from external forces, have actively sought to derail the Yoruba nation movement, adding that the group would confront these challenges with transparency and determination.
Ojo stated: “Progressively, since Nigeria’s Independence in 1960, the expectation by our Yoruba people that they would live in a free, fair, and just society of peoples coexisting in safety and in security with one another in Nigeria, has been frustrated by foreign and domestic enemies. The foreign imperialists’ regional design is to keep our nation perpetually subjugated and the domestic enemies’ design is to maintain the status quo through traitorous acts of betrayal and sabotage.
“The foreign enemies, the Fulani marauders, backed by their imperialist colonial masters, seized political power in Nigeria with the intent of using deadly force some day to seize the homelands of Nigeria’s indigenous peoples, including taking the homeland of the indigenous Yoruba people away from the Yoruba citizens and turning it into their own homeland.”
“Unfortunately, we have our own blood brothers and sisters, who have sold their souls for pennies to these foreigners. These Yoruba traitors are those I refer to as the ‘enemies within.’ At critically significant points in the history of our nation’s struggles for security or self-determination, they have joined Yoruba patriotic organisations and groups, artfully appeared to be Yoruba ‘leaders’, but harbouring hidden purposes of engineering and fomenting disunity among the Yoruba organisations and groups, so as to ensure the failure of the organisations’ and groups’ interests and objectives.
“The Yoruba nation’s struggle is nearing its victorious end. The Nigeria experiment, viciously degraded year by year since 1960, and very heavily degraded in 2015 to 2023, is unraveling more and more pathetically day by day. Our truthful push for peaceful separation from Nigeria is receiving the audience it needs worldwide, and our enemies are becoming more desperate. In their desperation, they are stepping up their hitherto hidden attacks on our struggle and our institutions, but we must warn that we are prepared to take them on as needed.”
