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Fulanis are ruthless, Sunday Igboho deserves a round of applause, says Sam Oyabayo of Odooa Action Movement.
The deputy leader of the Oodua Action Movement, Mr. Sam Oyabayo, has described Oodua activist Sunday Igboho as someone who deserved a round of applause and not condemnation. He stated this in an interview with IrokopostTV’s Rudolf Okonkwo, a day after Mr. Igboho led a group of Yoruba activists to chase away Fulani people residing in Igangan, in Oyo State of Nigeria.
Mr. Oyabayo flatly stated that Nigeria was not working and would never work. He called for a return to the pre-1914 structure.
“Nigeria is not working, and it will never work because we didn’t agree to live together,” Mr. Oyabayo said. “It is a false marriage.”
Pressed further on why he felt restructuring as being advocated by some would not fix what ailed Nigeria, he said that if the North had been smart and agreed on restructuring a while ago, the South would have approved. But he said that time had overtaken that option because old and new happenings have shown that “you cannot do business with the North.”
“The Fulani are very ruthless,” Sam Oyabayo said. “They don’t believe in equality. They believe in a master-slave relationship. The people in power in the South are emulating them. It is not working. We cannot sit around…