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flee region. WE can not sit idly and watch the
Yoruba nation being conquered by the Hausa
people, the Oodu Peoples Congress (OPC) has
warned.
This was in reaction to the alleged arrest by of Ife
indigene by security operatives following clashes
between the people and their Hausa counterparts.
Reacting to the excesses of security agencies in the
alleged arrest of the Yoruba people Otunba Gani
Adam said: “We will not want this hospitality to be
mistaken for cowardice. The Yoruba race is not and
will never submit to being a conquered nation. We
say no, to any treatment that will restrict us to
being slaves on our own land. We say no to any
measure skewed to favour only a side in a crisis of
this nature. We call for the release of all the
arrested Ife indigenes while a better amicable way
be proffered to settle frayed nerves and settle the
crisis permanently.’
Also reacting, Mr Yinka Odumakin who the national
publicity secretary of the Afenifere, claimed the
security operatives engaged in a one-sided for of
arrest targeting only the Yorubas.
Meanwhile, Hausa and Fulani residents, according
to our source have started fleeing Ile-Ife in droves
through commercial buses and cars following the
tragic incident His words: “We are miffed that
security operatives sectionally mobilized have
moved to Ife after the incident to carry out one-
sided mass arrests of Yoruba people who are
mostly notables and could never have participated
in any riot.
As at the time of making this statement,
all of those so indiscriminately arrested have either
been taken to either the state police command in
Osogbo or Force Headquarters in Abuja.’’
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