“Secessionists Will Not Be Allowed In Ondo” – Akeredolu

Ondo state Governor and chairman of the Southwest governor’s forum, Rotimi Akeredolu has declared that agitations for secession will not be allowed in any part of the state.

The Governor, who spoke through his special adviser on special Duties and Strategy, Dr. Doyin Odebowale while reacting to a statement by Prof. Banji Akintoye on the secession issue, adding that unelected jokers will not be allowed to
declare sovereignty on behalf of the state.

The statement read in part “Let it be reiterated again. There will be no agitation for secession in any part of Ondo State. Prof Akintoye should submit himself to the people if he is so desirous of representing them.

“it is presumptuous, denigrating and condescendingly spiteful for a group of hustlers, living largely in anonymity but struggling for relevance, to keep proclaiming and legislating on issues which affect the destiny of a whole people, without the faintest suggestion of paying even scant regard to their feelings or extending due courtesy to the real representatives of the people whose opinions they discount as unimportant.

“The people are discerning. They know the impostors. They have not forgotten the activities of the suborned agitators, the presumed penitent activists. The Ondo people, and indeed Yoruba are the easiest to lead but the most difficult to deceive. With them sophistry and demagoguery have their limits.”

The FidelinfoNews gathered that Prof.Akintoye the leader of the ‘Ilana Omo Odua’ group had reacted saying the governor spoke for himself,and not the people of the state.