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The leader of the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye, has endorsed the ongoing petition being pushed by the Nigerian Indigenous for Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS) for referendum. Akintoye, in a statement signed by him and made available to News Men on Wednesday by his Communications Manager, Mr. Maxwell Adeleye, called on all Yoruba people within and beyond the shores of Nigeria to sign the petition in order to aide the agitation for Yoruba Nation before the Nigerian Government and International Bodies.

The renowned Historian, who is also the Chairman of NINAS said in the statement titled "Towards Yoruba Nation Referendum" that the petition for referendum is the first major step towards the conduct of a referendum that will make or mar the actualisation of sovereign Yoruba Nation from Nigeria. "We the Yoruba people must now move forward to accomplish our Yoruba nation's self determination by holding a referendum. A referendum is exactly like a regular election at which people line up at voting stations to vote for a candidate.

"In a referendum, we will not be voting for a candidate , we will be voting to make a choice on a given proposition. That proposition will be:
"I WANT A YORUBA REPUBLIC SEPARATE FROM NIGERIA?" "Each voter will be able to vote YES or NO. That is the Yoruba Nation Referendum.
"But we Yoruba need to take some steps before we can get to our referendum. The first step is to make a strong statement loud and clear that we Yoruba want a Referendum. The best peaceful way to make that statement is to circulate a PETITION among us that we want a referendum.
"Already some patriots under the umbrella of NINAS have now started to circulate a Petition that we Yoruba, Igbo, Niger/Delta and Middle BELT want a Referendum.
"I urge all the millions of Yoruba people within and beyond Nigeria to vote in support of that Petition. Sign in the petition that you want a Yoruba Nation so what we can use the Petition supported by millions of us as a weapon to get our Referendum.
"We might use the Petition to pressurize the Federal Government (that is the National Assembly and the Federal Executive) to grant us our Referendum. However the chances are that the Federal ﾄ｢overnment will answer no.
"Alternatively, we might take our petition to our State Governments and demand that they should gﾅ病nt us our referendum. Since our state governments are our own elected governments, we have a much better chance to compel them to do what we will want. What we will need is intese pressure persistently applied. We must not take no for answer.
"Finally, we can take our Petition to the United Nations and demand of them to come and arrange our Referendum. The United Nations has carried out referendums in many parts of the world. One such Referendum made it possible for South Sudan to break away from the Republic of Sudan. Another made it possible for Timor Les to break away from Indonesia.
"Therefore, our Petition supported by millions of us is a great weapon to get our Referendum. So, we Yoruba must all make a rush to vote for the Petition that is now being circulated by NINAS", Akintoye, said.

1.The lecturer who insists on sex for a young girl to pass is complaining about the rot in Nigeria.
2.The Pastor who pays his driver 15K in Lagos or Abuja while his own son schools in the USA is complaining about the hopelessness in Nigeria.
3.The trader who removes 2 bowls of rice from the bag, rebags and sells as a 'full' bag is complaining about the wickedness in Nigeria.
4.The civil servant who comes to work once a week and shows up end of the month to receive full salary and kickbacks is complaining about politicians who do nothing.
5.The student who spends the whole weekend at party after party only to start posting Instagram pictures on Monday is complaining that Nigeria is stealing his/her dreams.
6.The "VIP driver" who can't join a simple queue but keeps overlapping in and out of traffic to shunt is complaining about disorderliness in Nigeria.
7.Doctors in public and teaching hospitals on government payroll who abandon patients on the floor but are thriving in their private hospitals are complaining that Nigeria is hopeless.
8. The officer who see 'roger' as his/her birthright and keep on complaining that our leaders are evil and therefore Nigeria is doomed.
9.Until we realize that the value of Nigeria today is the average of our own individual values, we will keep fooling ourselves.

We are all architects of our economic development woes. Stop the blame game. CHANGE begins with YOU. Our attitudes and unpatriotic behaviours should stop. Politicians sing the songs of the people yet they have no intentions to right the wrongs in the community affecting the people. You and I are the problems and solutions to our challenges, let's have PERSONAL DIALOGUE with ourselves and CHANGE our ATTITUDE towards NIGERIA

The IMF is resting control of Central Banks from governments, disabling them from financing themselves, forcing them to depend on loans which enables the IMF to control their economies, destroying local production and industries, forcing importations, devaluing currencies, giving Western investors unfair advantages over locals, causing foreign exchange problems, inflation, increase poverty and a number of other problems.

The African people must act now to stop these. They must call on their governments to stop it and if they don't, there must be continent wide demonstrations against the IMF, WB and Foreign Aid. Central Banks must finance governments spendings.