Sunday Igboho started off on the right foot as a defender of the Yoruba interests on their lands but ended on the wrong foot when he became emboldened and started championing the cause for secession of the Yoruba from Nigeria.
Let us take note that the Nigerian government did not go after him when he was fighting killer Fulani herdsmen.
It became pertinent to limit his over - reach when he decided it was the right thing to do by calling for the break-off of the Yoruba from the Sovereign nation of Nigeria.
Sunday Igboho would have ended up as a true hero of the Yoruba had he championed the cause for a national dialogue.he would have been praised by all if he had pushed for a nationwide Elders / Stake-Holders' Consultation / Intervention across the length and breadth of Nigeria.
Instead, he choose to tow the path of Maazi Nnamdi Kanu of the South East by calling for the end of Nigeria as we all know it. This was the same path that late Odumegwu Ojukwu towed in the 1960s without due consultations with the elders of the land and which inevitably led to the loss of thousands of Igbo lives and wanton destruction of properties.
Sunday Igboho and Nnamdi Kanu missed the fundamental element of first approaching the issues affecting us as a nation with diplomacy and widespread consultation across board but instead chose to allow their emotions cloud their judgement thereby leading them to use their positions to influence insurrection, rebellion and an attempt to break the country to pieces.
Every man has the right to self-determination but that can only come to pass if all the parties involved come to a mutual roundtable agreement. The different ethnic tribes of Nigeria did not started together as enemies, it is therefore pertinent to make sure that we do not end up as enemies, for there can not be peace in any region if we forcefully separate as it is evident that we all share close borders and we've all inter-mingled and live amongst each other.
I personally do not approve of the evident bias of the current administration of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, nonetheless, I will never allow my emotional outbursts to cloud my sense of reasoning. We have to learn to see through the maze that Nigeria is all we have. It is our heritage and those that are forcefully puting their tribesmen's agenda above all others shall not be in power. Nigeria is too big and too diverse to be islamized by a small ethnic group simply because their relative currently occupy the seats of power today.
I believe that all these issues shall be attended to in due time and we shall all end up smiling and be proud to be called Nigerians.
I therefore call on all well-meaning Nigerians, patriots and compatriots alike to come aboard this ship and join hands together to lift Nigeria high among the league of nations. Noting carefully that the Egyptians we see today shall be no more when tomorrow comes.
ARISE! OH COMPATRIOTS AND HEED THE CALL OF NIGERIA!
TOGETHER, WE SHALL ALL LAUGH AT LAST! AMEN!
GOD BLESS US ALL &
GOD BLESS THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA !
Adeyemi Ayodeji (Billy Rose Jnr)
