Prominent Yoruba diaspora socio-cultural organisation, under the aegis of Oodua Progressive Union (OPU), has called on the Federal Government to embrace regionalism as the best approach to achieve the nation’s potential, just as it also urged the Southwest governors on the region’s integrated development plan.
Besides, the Yoruba diaspora group further urged the six governors of the Southwest to work out modalities that would help in creating effective security, proper education, uninterrupted electricity supply, as well as effective railway projects that could engender growth and development in the region.
OPU made the call in a communiqué issued on Tuesday and signed by the Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, who is also the global convener of the diaspora organisation; the group’s Secretary General, Prince Olanrewaju Sunmonu; and Europe coordinator, Alhaji Gani Wahab, at the end of its European Summit held recently in the United Kingdom
The Yoruba diaspora organisation, with branches presently in 101 countries across the six continents, said the governors should ensure speedy construction of regional electricity and railways to cushion the effect of the hardship being faced by Nigerians with the PMS price hike and electricity tariffs.
The communique read:
“The Southwest Governors must be ready to replicate the region’s past success stories by focusing on the region’s integrated development plan.
“We need to revive our educational sector. Security of lives and property should be of utmost priority in the Southwest. We must make Yoruba Language a compulsory subject for students’ admission in all the state universities in the Southwest.
“Our members have been urged to intensify efforts in setting up an online Yoruba language school in order to promote the Yoruba cultural identity and language.
“We also urge the governors to pay more attention to the issue of insecurity ravaging the region.
“And in doing that, the governors must partner with the South West Security Stakeholders Groups (SSSG), a security outfit consisting of 15 different security groups under the Aareonakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams.
“With the partnership, Yoruba land will be peaceful, and the spate of insecurity across the region will reduce drastically.
“The Southwest governors must also reinforce regional security across the region, even as we urge the Lagos State Government to join the other states in the region to inaugurate the Amotekun security outfit in order to boost the morale of the other five states in the Southwest.”
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