
By Ajibola Adedoye
The Youuba race must be ready, prepared, mobilized and organized to end the bad dream Nigeria represents and stand for as presently contributed hence the need for a Constituent Assembly which is the most credible platform to aggregate the collective interests and aspirations for all Yoruba race.
Comrade Wale Balogun, the National Coordinator of Yoruba Revolutionary Movement (YOREM) made this submission while addressing journalists in Lagos on Thursday, February 8, 2024.

In a statement titled “Yoruba Arise to Defend Yourself and Protect Our Land: Need for a Yoruba Constituent Assembly Now”, Comrade Balogun said “We are here to reiterate our call for the peaceful dissolution of Nigeria, a strident call which started after a criminal annulment of the world acknowledged freest, fairest and most peaceful and most credible presidential election in the history of Nigeria, won by Chief MKO Abiola, a Yoruba.
“The annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election by Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida military dictatorship, the struggle to end military rule and actualize the people’s mandate given to MKO Abiola had led to a protracted struggle by the pro-democracy forces and the inevitable birth of Yoruba self determination groups. Oodua Youth Movement pioneered the historic efforts with the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) being the most mass based Yoruba self determination organization before the internal contradictions within the group led to the birth of Yoruba Revolutionary Movement (YOREM) on Sunday, November 21st, 1999.
“As the revolutionary splinter group of OPC, we have maintained the call for a Yoruba Constituent Assembly which will be an opportunity for the Yorubas to aggregate our collective interests, speak with one voice on how we cannot continue to live with other ethnic nationality groups whom we do not share same norms, traditions, values and vision. The Yoruba Constituent Assembly will also give us the opportunity to articulate the socio-political order to govern the sovereign Yoruba nation our struggle for self determination is also for the social emancipation of our people.
“We are tired of calling for the restructuring of Nigeria to reflect a genuine federal union, a call whicn has fallen on deaf ears in the last two decades. Our struggle and commitment in YOREM as an organization is for the exit of the Yoruba nation from the failed British contraption called Nigeria” Comrade Wale Balogun submitted.