Yoruba Nation agitator and leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua, Professor Banji Akintoye, has said that Yorubas will leave Nigeria but it wil not be in violence.
He said he did not believe in violence, nor does he preach it.
According to him, that is why it i surprises him that the Nigerian government is said to be after his life.
He said he fled to Benin Republic because of invasion and death threats he gets.
In an interview with BBC, Akintoye, a professor of History, said, “We just believe Nigeria is not a place where the Yoruba people should still be part of, Nigeria is declining and it will continue to decline because there is no order.
“I have never ordered young people to go-go and fight, disrupt the peace of the nation or any of sort. I have even written a book on the processes to take to achieve our revolution, there will be no fight, we will leave Nigeria peacefully and we will be good nations to others we are leaving behind and they will be good neighbours to us.”
“A lot of those in government position inform me of the plans, but none of them has ever told me there are plans to arrest me, I have done nothing wrong, why will they want to arrest me, I speak my mind as a Nigerian.
“My intelligence people who inform me of the plans by secret agents told me that they (government) know I cannot be arrested but they can cause my death.
“They can invade my house at night with guns and kill me. That was why some elders met and advised me to leave the country for now. That was why I left Nigeria. I left Nigeria over the death threat, not for arrest; there is nothing to arrest us about.”
