By Omolade Adegbuyi
The newly appointed leader of the British Conservative Party Olufunto Olukemi Badeoch should use her new position to influence British foreign policy that helps sustain Nigeria as a country in perpetual state of conflict.
In a statement on Tuesday, signed Apapo O’odua Koya, (AOKOYA) officials, Col Abimbola Sowumi (rtd) and Ahmed Akorede congratulated Olufunto Olukemi Badenoch for emerging as one of the most influential people in the world.
AOKOYA expresses gladness at the emergence of Olufunto Olukemi Badenoch praising her for courage, resilience and determination. The group urged her to see her new status as a messiah with a burden to lift the shoulders of oppressed people in Nigeria and open up the tunnel to free Nigerians from the cruel grip of their corrupt leaders. ‘We wish her an extraordinary success with the hope she will light the flame of freedom from servitude across the world.’
The Yoruba self-determination group said her height was a product of hardwork, diligence, family upbringing, training and the qualitative Yoruba and Itsekiri moral values. The group said the Conservative Party now being led by Olufunto Olukemi Kemi was established in 1834 and had administered Britain as a benefactor of an economically stunted Nigeria.
It is important to note that since 1834, only three women have led the Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher, Theresa May, Liz Truss and Olufunto Olukemi Badenoch. The group said while her leadership has brought joy to millions of reasonable Yoruba people, it has also been met with anxiety: The question is what will she live and die for, slavery or freedom of her people?
‘History now beckons on you, Olufunto Olukemi Badenoch if you would make any impact in creating a paradigm shift of the Conservative Party to embrace utilitarian values in her bilateral relations with Nigeria,’ the group said.
AOKOYA said Britain’s choice of truth and uprightness on the simmering crisis in Nigeria can prevent a looming war occasioned by poverty, corruption, over-centralisation of power and the historic injustice faced by marginalised Nigerian ethnic groups.
‘Britain has historic relationship with Nigeria. Asquith was the British Prime Minister in 1914 while George V was the King when Nigeria was forcefully joined together. Nigeria has not found peace since then and the merger has taken millions of human souls.’
The Yoruba self-determination group said the Conservatives and the Liberals worked together to create a fake and delusional country called Nigeria in 1914.
AOKOYA said the Conservative Party and Liberal Unionist Party had ruled Britain at the height of its fame of British Empire when indigenous territories in Africa were seized by force of arms.
It noted that prior 1914, the Yoruba and ethnic nations in Nigeria, had ran their own affairs for more than 1000 years, not without friction, but also with remarkable feat achieved in art, culture, science, health and in the realm of philosophy. The dispute of war were resolved by the people on their own terms.
The group said the Conservative Party opposes a United Ireland as well as Scottish and Welsh independence and has been opposed to devolution of power in Britain. It said the garrison policy has been internationalised by Britain to the detriment of the suffering people of Nigeria.
‘This is the party Olufunto Olukemi Badenoch has the privilege to lead. Your people, the Yoruba Nation do not expect her to change a philosophy that predated the creation of Nigeria, but that she should live up to good conscience on the life-long tribulations, pain and anguish that face her birthplace, Nigeria.’
AOKOYA said ‘All we ask for is for the Conservative Party, under her leadership, to realise that the objective conditions in Nigeria are different from the UK and that the continuous support of the Nigerian ruinous ruling Fulani elite by the British ruling class, will only throw Nigeria, the birthplace of Olufunto Olukemi Badenoch into war and unprecedented human misery,’ the group said, adding that Nigeria already fought a civil war that consumed over 1million people.
AOKOYA warned that a second war is almost imminent and that the Conservative Party, including Olufunto Olukemi Badenoch will have her hands stained with the blood of innocent people, unless she recognises the responsibility history has imposed on her like Esther in the Holy Bible
AOKOYA said Yoruba Nation will never forget Dr Femi Adegoke, the father of Olukemi Badenoch who fought for the freedom of her people as the Chairman, Voice of Reason and his death was as a result of the many battles she fought for Yoruba self-determination.
‘Her father died a honourable death in the tortuous struggle for Yoruba self determination. He put everything, his blood, his money, his soul. Yoruba Nation will never forget Dr Femi Adegoke, the father of Olukemi Badenoch who fought for the freedom of her people as the Chairman, Voice of Reason and his death was as a result of the battles she fought for Yoruba self-determination.
The group said Nigeria is already facing asymmetric war seen in the form of terrorism led by Fulani and Boko Haram, violent attacks on women and children and the complete destruction of farmlands which is promoting malnutrition and starvation across the land.
The group said ‘at the root of the problem is centralisation of power, muzzling of the rights of indigenous people in the most savage manner and the violent suppression and repression of ethnic self-determination. Nigeria is also one of the most corrupt countries in the world and the filthiest place for global criminals and crooks to exploit for dirty money.
‘It should be noted that these crimes committed by Nigerian leaders are not without the support or veiled prompting of the British Government.’
AOKOYA said according to two European anti-corruption researchers on corruption, Christian Erickson and Lionel Faull ‘the United Kingdom receives about £90billion illicit funds from Nigeria, Africa and the third world every year while 87,000 illicit assets in the UK are owned by anonymous companies in tax havens with the value of secretly owned properties in the UK between 56 to 100 billion pounds. 40 percent of these properties are in the city of London.’
AOKOYA said though the UK has one of the most effective anti-corruption laws, but its financial institutions continue to provide logistics for Nigerian corrupt officials.
‘We cannot blame the thief without blaming the person that benefits from the stolen items. We call on Kemi Badenoch as the leader of the Conservative Party to use her influence to uphold the dignity of mankind by drawing the attention of her new found country to the cruel suffocation of citizens in her place of birth fuelled constantly by the foreign policy of Britain and by the historic policies of the party she now leads,’.
