BEVERLY HILLS, April 25, (THEWILL) – The Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide and its women wing have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently heed the call for restructuring in order to resolve the problems currently facing the nation.
Addressing a press conference in Lagos, President of the youth council, Barrister Dotun Hassan said President Buhari must address the nation on the current insecurity.
Hassan said the 1999 constitution gives too much power to the centre, stressing that power must devolve to the states and local governments.
“The President needs to address the nation because a lot is happening. We should revert back to regionalism, true federalism like we had during the First Republic. I think the President needs to look at the report of the 2014 National Conference. The solution to all the challenges facing the nation are there. In the First Republic, the concept of regionalism led to healthy competition and great development among the regions in the field of agriculture. We should return to that era”, he said.
On the forthcoming 3rd World Omoluabi Day Festival and Awards ceremony being organised by the two bodies for May, 2021, Hassan apologised to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi , Ojaja 11 over some controversies trailing the proposed honorary title for Adamu Garba, saying the Ooni is not involved in the proposed honorary titles to be conferred at the festival.
He said, “ We hereby tender an open apology to His Imperial Majesty, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja 11, the Ooni of Ife over the wrong media report and misconceptions on the 3rd World Omoluabi Day Festivals and Awards 2021.”
“We the leadership of the apex Yoruba umbrella groups: the Yoruba Council of Youths Worldwide and Yoruba Council of Women Worldwide sincerely expressed our deepest apology to the royal stool, the ancient authority of The Arole Oodua and personally to His Imperial Majesty, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, of Ife for the image tarnishing, misrepresentations, aspersions and misconceptions going on in the social media over a proposed conferment of Award of Aare Atunluse(Nation Builder) Oodua to Alh. Adamu Garba 11.”
He further said that the Ooni is not connected in any way with the awarding of titles by the councils.
Also speaking at the conference, the Global Publicity Secretary for Yoruba Women Worldwide, Hilda Oduwole Busari, called on Nigerians to be their brother’s keepers and pray for peace always.
She said women and children suffered most during war and therefore, cautioned against inflammatory statements from any sections of the country that may push the country into war.
AYO ESAN, has been actively reporting and analyzing political events for different newspapers for over 18 years. He has also successfully covered national and state elections in Nigeria since the inception of this democracy in 1999.
