15th July, 2023
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Gani Adams has warned the self-styled ‘Prime Minister of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB)” Simon Ekpa to stop its plans to stage a sit-at-home in Lagos or South-West.
A sit-at-home protest is currently being enforced in the South-East region of the country to press the Nigerian government to release the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, from detention.
Adams in a telephone interview with the Tribune, however, cautioned Ekpa or any accomplice against contemplating such a move or attempt to impose Biafran agenda on Lagos or any other part of the South-West.
Ekpa in a tweet on Wednesday had hinted plans by his militants to replicate the sit-at-home in Lagos.
“Biafrans in Lagos should get ready to be part of the demand to release Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. We are coming to Lagos after the two-week-long sit at home.
“It is time to show your solidarity to this call for justice. Biafrans in Lagos will lock down. The consultation will start soon,” the IPOB’s prime minister stated.
Ekpa also on Tuesday announced that there would be a two-week sit-at-home in the South-East region.
Adams cautioned the Finnish-based ethnic propagandist to desist from “repeating the mistake of the 1970s,” and to drop the move which he described as uncalled for and counterproductive.
The Aare Ona Kakanfo emphasised that the South-West is not part of “their Biafra” Republic and as such, it was preposterous for “outsiders to dictate or impose their agenda on people of other regions whom they cohabit with as residents.”
He said: “I can’t go to the South East now and say I want to decide for the people of that region. So, it is not possible to import South-East agenda into Yorubaland. It would be counterproductive. We advise him (Ekpa) to drop that idea.
“He should not try that. The South West is not Biafra Republic. Any attempt to impose Biafra Republic agenda will be resisted. He should desist from repeating the mistake of the 1970s. He should be very, very careful.
“They are entitled to their opinion, but South West is not their Biafran region. He should be very, very careful.
“He should not come and impose his own agenda on the South West. It is uncalled-for, it is unwarranted. Although I don’t know him and I have not spoken to him, he should not bring unnecessary tension to Yorubaland. We will not accept that.”