AMOTEKUN: YORUBA WORLD CONGRESS TO HOLD SOLIDARITY WALK ACROSS SOUTH-WEST STATES
The Director of Contacts and Mobilization of (YWC), Comrade Victor Taiwo, in a statement which was made available to journalists said that the protest will hold simultaneously in Lagos, Abeokuta, Ibadan, Osogbo, Akure and Ado-Ekiti respectively from 9am.
Penpushing further reports the statement said the Yoruba World Congress (YWC) is being led by Yoruba Leader, Banji Akintoye, Emeritus Professor of History and Second Republic Senator,explaining that on the meeting points, those in Lagos are to converge at Gani Faweyinmi Freedom Park, Ojota; OYO: Opposite Agodi Cenotaph, Ibadan; OGUN: Pansheke Junction, Abeokuta; OSUN: Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo; ONDO: Alagbaka Roundabout, opposite First Bank, Akure while those in EKITI are to converge at Fajuyi Round about, Ado-Ekiti.
“All Yoruba people are urged to come out in their millions anywhere they are in Oduduwa land on Tuesday to show to the World that Amotekun has come to stay. We must show to the external forces and their internal collaborators who want to stampede our resolve to protect ourselves, safeguard our land from kidnappers, armed-robbery and put an end to consistent destruction of our farm lands that enough is enough’.
“Well-meaning Yoruba people and leaders of thought would be at designated venues to address the protest. We want to assure our Governors that Yoruba people are behind them on Amotekun. We urge them not to shiver and they must never shiver. It is no retreat, no surrender. We will not surrender Amotekun”
