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Insecurity: God will not forgive Buhari if Nigeria goes to war – Gani Adams
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari against allowing what would trigger another war in Nigeria.
Adams warned that God would not forgive Buhari if Nigeria witnessed another war due to the current state of insecurity.
He made the remark while accusing Buhari of being insensitive to Nigerians’ plight over the country’s insecurity crisis.
Adams spoke at his 51st birthday Thanksgiving programme held at the Saviour Ministries Cherubim and Seraphim Church Worldwide, Alausa, Lagos State, yesterday.
He noted that the call for Nigeria’s disintegration was due to the Federal Government’s inability to address the country’s challenges.
He accused Buhari of displaying a lacklustre attitude towards the insecurity challenges in the country.
Adams said: “Schools are being shut, churches, mosques are not spared. Bandits are gradually leading the country into a tailspin and the president seems to have been bereft of ideas.
“What we experience daily now in Nigeria is enough to set the country on fire.A section of the country lording itself over other sections.
“Yet they said we shouldn’t talk, that our calls for the O’odua Republic was done in bad faith. How can you explain the killings, kidnappings and banditry spreading in North, East, West and South.
“One of the greatest problems of this government is nepotism. One begins to wonder why Mr. president is insensitive to the plights of others, especially to the sorrow and agony of citizens losing loved ones to bloodshed.
“It is a wake-up call for President Buhari to address all these issues in the interest of this country; else God will not forgive him if Nigeria disintegrates through war.”
Banditry, kidnapping, terrorism and general criminalities have been on the rise across the country lately.
Students and residents of some Northern states have been the major targets of bandits.
While bandits are abducting and killing some students, Boko Haram is also raining havoc in the Northeast.
In the Southern part of the country, armed herders have attacked communities and killed their occupants, with farmers being the most affected.
May 10, 2021
New South-West Security Network To Be Launched Soon – Gani Adams
Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams has stated that a new security outfit that will compliment effort of the Western Nigeria Security Network, Operation Amotekun, and other security agencies in tackling the insecurity ravaging the region would soon be unveiled.
Speaking at a press conference in Lagos, he said the new security outfit would involve all security groups, traditional rulers and other stakeholders in the region.
He said stakeholders involved would deliberate on the issue in Ibadan Oyo State on March 17.
Adams and some members of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere present at the press briefing also called on the six governors of the region to inject at least 15 per cent of their annual budget into agriculture.
Iba Adams, Afenifere spokesman, Yinka Odumakin and a chieftain of the group, Sola Lawal said investing a huge amount of money on agriculture will play a huge impact in providing sustainable food production for the region.
They condemned the recent protest by food sellers in the northern part of the country, which prevented food from the area from coming to the Southwest.
The trio said investment in agriculture would provide employment, enhance internally generated revenue, provide food security, reduce urban congestion and enlarge the coast for participatory modernised agriculture.
Adams explained that the Southwest spent a huge amount on food daily, adding that the protest was a clarion call to the Southwest leaders to provide the necessary security for farmers in order to produce enough agricultural produce.
March 7, 2021
BREAKING: Leave Southwest or face OPC – Gani Adams warns criminal herdsmen
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has warned criminal herdsmen in the Southwest to leave immediately.
He said failure to adhere to the warning would mean such elements were ready to face the wrath of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC).
Adam’s reaction followed the breach of Professor Wole Soyinka’s Ijegba residence by herders.
In a statement by his spokesman on Thursday, the Yoruba leader said the encroachment was a threat to the privacy of the Nobel laureate.
Adams said reports available to him from Southwest states showed that criminal herdsmen have migrated from Ibarapa in Oyo State to Yewa in Ogun State.
The Aare said this had increased the spate of insecurity, stressing that the activities of criminal Fulani herdsmen had become unbearable.
Adams wondered why President Muhammadu Buhari has been complacent about the security situation in the Southwest.
“We thank God that the recent encroachment on Prof’s residence failed. The fundamental problem in this country is that we have a President that seems to be complacent on serious issues.
“It is in our own interest to continue to raise our voices against the unprecedented threats to the southwest region.”
The Aare advised Southwest governors to boost the recruitment of OPC, Vigilante and Hunters in Amotekun to further strengthen the security outfit.
Adams appealed to the Lagos State Government to inaugurate Amotekun as soon as possible, adding that delay was dangerous.
February 11, 2021
Terrorists now occupying Kishi in Oyo – Gani Adams raises alarm
Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams says armed terrorists now occupy parts of Oyo State.
He said intelligence indicated that they were at Old Oyo Game Reserve at Sooro village in Kishi town, Irepo Local Government of Oyo State.
He recalled his alarm late August that hundreds of men were seen on motorcycles heading towards the area.
The Aare warned that the development posed a great danger to the security of the entire South-West.
In a statement on Wednesday, Adams alerted that the sects were involved in rape, kidnap of locals, threats to livelihoods as well as access to forest resources.
The Yoruba leader said children, the aged and women are the most hit by the violent activities of outlaws.
“I have received numerous reports from Kishi, North-West of Oyo State. The reports range from ceaseless kidnapping, rape and threat to lives of Yoruba people in the Oke Ogun area with Kishi as the present hub of terrorist attacks. It’s my responsibility to alert the public and also the relevant authorities”, he said.
Noting that Oyo has the largest land mass in South-West and listed as the 14th in Nigeria, Adams declared that the agenda was to occupy Yorubaland.
He added that Oyo retains a traditional route that links Sokoto State and also borders Ogun State, South of Kwara State and the Republic of Benin and in the East by Osun State.
“The occupation of the land by armed groups is an assault on Yoruba heritage and civilisation. Part of the forest hosts the sacred tabernacle of ancient Yoruba Alaafin whose graves were located in parts of the forest. The killing and kidnapping of over a hundred people is frightening and worrisome.
“The records are there. The recent Intelligence report from Kishi is too frightening because terrorists have taken over the area, with the number of victims growing by the day. We need to react to these senseless killings because of the timing and exigencies. I have sent the report to the Oyo state governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde.
I have also alerted the Director-General of Amotekun in Oyo state. I have also informed the Alaafin of Oyo, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, through a message to his Assistant, and I have informed the Okere of Saki”, he said.
September 16, 2020
CAMA: Listen to Nigerians, withdraw assent – Gani Adams caution Buhari
Aare Ona Kakanfo Council has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against implementing the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA).
The council made the call at a meeting chaired by the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams.
The law provides for religious bodies and charity organisations to be regulated by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has given Buhari 14 days to withdraw assent or face a lawsuit by legal luminary, Femi Falana.
A communique signed by Babajide Tanimowo, Atoloye Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, said the “furore generated by the signing of the law should tell the President that it is an unpopular law.”
“We ask the President to rescind his decision and withdraw his assent. The hallmark of a true leader is to listen and accede to his people’s yearning. We call on the President to respect the sensitivity of Nigerians and do the needful.”
The council also criticized the reintroduction of the “vexatious” National Water Resources Bill, rejected in 2018 by the National Assembly.
“Presentation of this bill at this time is not of National interest. It is purely suicidal because the bill on water management and control in a country like Nigeria that prides itself as a Federal State actually negates the spirit of true federalism as it is practised in saner climes”, it noted.
August 26, 2020
Gani Adams tells FG to Investigate South-West explosions
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has called on the Federal Government to investigate the three recent explosions which occurred in the South-West.
He noted that the explosions were beyond ordinary blasts as claimed by the government.
Adams in a statement on Sunday said the latest blast in Akure, the Ondo State capital, might be a bomb blast that must be investigated.
He said, “We are not convinced that all these are ordinary blasts, but a bomb and therefore it is important and necessary for the Federal Government to carry out an investigation on these incidents which occurred in the space of three weeks in Lagos, Ekiti and Ondo states.
“With the Lagos blast and from records, a pipeline fire is expected to burn houses and not uprooting houses from the foundation. In view of that, it was beyond pipeline burst, but bomb blast.”
He added that the Ekiti incident was of the same pattern, which should not be attributed to ordinary blast, stressing that the incidents were becoming rampant in the South-West.
“The South-West governors should be vigilant. Information at our disposal has it that, other South-West states are the next target. The Federal Government should diligently investigate the incidents,” Adams said.
March 30, 2020