A pan-Yoruba group, the Oodua
People’s Congress, has warned ex-Niger Delta militant leader, Asari Dokubo, the
leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and those planning to foment
trouble during Saturday’s governorship and house of assembly elections to stay
away from the Southwest in their own interest.
It also warned them to stop
issuing inflammatory remarks and threats of attacks on the Yoruba.
Dokubo was widely reported in a
section of the media a few days ago to have threatened to deal with the Yoruba
in a video posted on Youtube, if non-indigenes were attacked during the polls.
In a statement issued yesterday
by its President, Comrade Dare Adesope, the group said its men were prepared to
protect Yoruba and their Igbo counterparts in Lagos State.
He said: ” Asari Dokubo and
others should mind their choice of words while addressing Yoruba people because
it is very clear that the Yoruba are not enjoying the privilege we give to the
Igbo and other tribes in their land.
”The presidential election is
over and we are looking forward to the governorship poll. We have decided to
stand up to the task and protect our states by ensuring that the election is
violence-free. Any group planning to disrupt the poll should have a rethink
because OPC(R) is prepared to resist such act with our last blood.
”Heavy presence of our members
would be adequately felt in all the polling booths across the Southwest.”
virtue of this , we are imploring
all registered voters to come out and exercise their franchise without fear of
attack from any quarters.
”And to all Igbo groups and
persons threatening to attack Yorubas, I am sounding a strong warning that they
should give it a second thought because we are very ready to defend our people.
They should know that the gentility of a tiger is not is not an act of
cowardice.”
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