The pan-Yoruba organisation, the Oodua Peoples
Congress, OPC, reformed, has issued a 14-day
ultimatum to suspected Niger Delta militants to
desist from attacking communities in the South
West, else the Ijaw people in the region would gear
up for reprisal attacks.
Congress, OPC, reformed, has issued a 14-day
ultimatum to suspected Niger Delta militants to
desist from attacking communities in the South
West, else the Ijaw people in the region would gear
up for reprisal attacks.
OPC issued the threat while reacting to recent
attacks by suspected militants on Imusin and Ogijo
in Ogun and some riverine communities in Ikorodu
area of Lagos State.
The group in a statement by Comrade Dare
Adesope entitled, ‘‘Incursion of Ijaw militants into
Yoruba land: Enough is enough,’’ threatened reprisal
attack if the suspected Ijaw militants failed to end
the incursion into the South-West at the end of the
ultimatum.
According to the group, the attack in the South-
West was an affront on the Yoruba nation and it
would not be accepted.
The statement reads in part, “Enough of these
invasions, killings and kidnapping of our people
right on our own soil. We of the Oodua Peoples
Congress (Reformed) have waited for this long,
hoping that the government would curb the deadly
acts of the Ijaw people on our kinsmen in their
fatherland in Ogun and Lagos states. But, it has
now dawned on us that the lives and properties of
our people and, indeed, the masses are of no
importance to those in authorities and the
marauding militants.
“It is a known fact that we, the Yoruba, are the most
contented, accommodating and tolerant among all
the ethnic groups in Nigeria. We wholeheartedly
welcome other tribes coming into our states either
to reside or do business. But, if they want to take
our hospitality for stupidity, we are ready to prove to
them that the gentility of a tiger is not an act of
cowardice. Before now, it was the Fulani herdsmen,
now it is the Ijaw people that are on the prowl.
Enough is enough
“Consequently, we are giving the Ijaw militants a
14-day ultimatum to allow peace to reign in our
land. If they fail to heed the warning, it will
henceforth be an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth. We will prove to them that Lagos belongs to
the Yoruba and not a no man’s land that they tend
to erroneously claim.
“If they must care to know, we have information and
facts about where their leaders’ properties are
situated in the entire South-West and where their
people reside in our midst as well.”
