After an extensive summit at the historic parliament building in Ibadan on Thursday, it was concluded that no excuse would be entertained for any shift of the date, as it could be a recipe for disaster.
The convener of the conference, General Alani Akinrinade (Rtd), said in his address at the Pan Yoruba Summit that, the summit was necessary because the current leadership has made Yorubas victims of arrested development, with significant retrogression which must be stopped.
The Oyo state Governor Senator Abiola Ajimobi, who hosted the event, condemned recent violence involving OPC in Lagos. He lamented what he called a state of servitude of his people which made it possible to turn them against one another .
This convergence of eminent Sons and Daughters of the Yoruba race at the House of chiefs, Parliament Buildings Secretariat Ibadan was called by the Yoruba elders to urgently address issues affecting the growth and unity of the race .
The Yoruba leaders also seeks to register its displeasure at the retrogressive measures of the government at the centre to the South west and by extension all Yoruba kits and kins across the world.
The Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, in his speech, said that despite the rich historical repertoire of the Yorubas and its contribution to national development, the region had suffered a great deal in the last 16 years of democracy.
The convener of the summit , Gen Alani Akinrinade (Rtd), hopes the meeting will arrive at a common narrative that speaks to the demand of the Yorubas for development in an emerging Nigeria with purpose driven goals for regional and national progress.
In a communique signed by the convener at the end of the summit, the elders agreed unequivocally that; elections must hold as scheduled, states must be allowed to grow and prosper at their pace while an end must be put to alienation and repression of the race."
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