The Fredrick Fasheun-led Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) has urged all the six South-West governors to treat as security emergency the building of camps inside Yoruba forests by insurgents and terrorists fleeing from the North, promising to help security agencies deal with the menace without delay before it is too late.
Recalled that the Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, during the 2025 annual inter-faith service which took place in Ibadan, raised the alarm that insurgents and terrorists fleeing from military bombardment in the North were relocating to the state and other states in South-West and building camps in the forests there.
President of the socio-cultural group, Otunba Wasiu Afolabi (alias Askari), in a statement, copy of which was made available to newsmen on Sunday, quickly recalled that these foreign Fulani terrorists had always said that after conquering the North, the South would be next, adding: “Now it is happening.”
Afolabi assured that OPC now under his leadership was ready to let these evil dreamers know that Yorubaland can never be conquered or occupied by foreign invaders, urging the six governors of Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Ondo, and Ekiti states to extend their invite to the group “to deal with this menace today before it is too late.”
He assured that his group was adequately equipped physically, militantly, technologically, and spiritually to confront these foreign invaders, saying that what OPC was “demanding from South-West governors is the necessary invitation, equipment, and support to do what needs to be done to wipe out this menace of foreign criminals.”
“These foreign Fulani terrorists have always said that after conquering the North, the South will be next. Now it is happening.
“But OPC is ready to let these evil dreamers know that Yorubaland can never be conquered or occupied by foreign invaders. Let the six governors of Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Ondo, and Ekiti states invite us to deal with this menace today before it is too late.
“We have the men and capacity to confront these foreign invaders physically, militantly, technologically and spiritually. All we are demanding from South-West governors is the necessary invitation, equipment and support to do what needs to be done to wipe out this menace of foreign criminals,” he said.
Besides, the Yoruba socio-cultural group called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to collaborate with the six South-West governors to ensure that the threat of Boko Haram and other similar insurgents was quickly neutralised in the geo-political zone before it became too late.
Afolabi also called on the governors to urgently invite all capable organisations, individuals, and security veterans, mobilize all resources, and task them with the responsibility of collaborating with security forces to stamp out the menace posed by the non-state actors that had made life a hell for Northerners and were now importing greater insecurity into the South.
“Enough is enough of paying lip service to the issue of tackling insecurity. Peace is the most important thing in any society. Without security and peace, no society can make progress. With the alarm sounded by His Excellency, Governor Seyi Makinde, all hands must be on deck to wipe out this existential threat to our collective welfare and send these evil people to hell or wherever they came from.
“The Federal Government led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must not play politics with this matter. Tinubu must lead from the front and mobilise the Armed Forces to align with Amotekun, OPC, vigilantes, hunters, Agbekoya, and Sunday Igboho’s team to face this dangerous threat to our collective peace and existence.
“Tinubu must realise that destiny has placed him in this position to correct the great disservice done to this nation by President Muhammadu Buhari, who opened our borders to foreign Fulani militants and herdsmen because they are his kinsmen.
“Let it be clear that although Yoruba people have nothing against the Nigerian Fulani, with whom we have enjoyed centuries of a cordial relationship, we will not concede an inch of our land to foreign elements masquerading as herdsmen whose pastime is to kidnap, rape, plunder and kill our people. OPC and the Yoruba race will never allow such a wicked agenda.
“For starters, the governors must insist that all herdsmen and foreigners should move out of the forests, games reserves, forest reserves and farm settlements in line with the 2021 order issued by the Late Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN. After that directive has been reissued, any group found camping in the forests will be regarded as terrorists and summarily dealt with accordingly. A word is enough for the wise,” Otunba Afolabi said.
“Right now, these invaders have constituted themselves into a danger to everyone, including their Nigerian Fulani kinsmen, whom they have been kidnapping, raping and killing. Nigerian Fulani too have been losing cattle and other livestock to these foreign rustlers and terrorists. So everyone has become a victim,” he added.
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