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| Oduduwa, the Yoruba progenitor |
Did you know that it was only in Yoruba land that no case of "abandoned property" occurred? Unlike what happened in Port Harcourt and other parts of Nigeria during the civil war, the Yoruba kept the properties of Igbo people intact and returned them with proceeds of rents to their owners at the end of the war.
Did you know that it was only the Yorubas that
stood by Ojukwu in his early days in exile despite being a treasonable felony
to do so.
Did you know that no Igbo leader (not even one) had the guts to visit Ojukwu in exile within the first seven years. Only Yoruba like Wole Soyinka, Tai Solarin and others were brave enough to visit and spend time with him in Abidjan.
Did you know that out of all his contemporaries it was only the so-called Zik of Africa that ran abroad during the political turbulence of the late 60s.
Did you know that if Abiola was to be Igbo in the case of June 12th, they would not have gotten Obasanjo.
Did you know that despite the heroic welcome given to the late Ikemba upon his return from exile, the same Igbo people rejected him from becoming a senator less than a year later?
Yorubas are not cowards.
We are compassionate, deep thinkers who don't do things precipitously and we see way beyond tomorrow and now. We don't fight wars with the usual weapons when we can easily win with our brains. We don't make senseless noise just to attract needless attention or sympathy. We are warriors who use great ideas, intellect and strategies to fight wars. We can decide to lose a battle just to win a war. We are the most sophisticated microcosm of this entity called Nigeria. We are the "glue" that binds the Nigerian nation together.
We are Yoruba, Ómo To Ni Ran, Òmo Lua Bi.
We are the descendants of the great ODUDUWA.
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