A fresh crisis has rocked secessionist agitators in Southern Nigeria and the Middle Belt as one of the arrowheads of the self-determination coalition, Prof Banji Akintoye, resigned as the Chairman of the group known as the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination.
Until his resignation, NINAS was the umbrella body of self-determination groups in the South and Middle Belt Regions of Nigeria with Ilana Omo Oodua representing the Yoruba bloc, Lower Niger Congress representing the South East and South South, and the Middle-Belt Rennaissance Movement representing the Middle-Belt Region.
Akintoye in a statement issued on Tuesday by his Director of Media, Maxwell Adeleyw accused some leaders of NINAS of having objectives which conflicts with self-determination, adding that his resignation was with immediate effect.
Akintoye and 44 other leaders said it had become imperative for the Yoruba bloc to quit the alliance in order to preserve the integrity and reputation of the Yoruba Nation agitation for self-determination.
The stamemt added that the implication of this development is that the prestigious leadership that Professor Adebanji Stephen Akintoye, has provided for NINAS as Chairman since inception has now come to an end from today Tuesday 30th November, 2021.
Akintoye, 86, is an arrowhead of Yoruba Nation agitation, championing the secession of the South-West zone from the Nigerian entity.
The Professor of History is currently in Benin Republic to oversee the release of embattled Yoruba Nation campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, who has spent over four months in a prison in the Francophone West African nation.
Source: Galaxy Television
