Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has lambasted Ilana Omo Oodua leader, Prof. Banji Akintoye.

A statement issued by the Special Assistant to Governor on Special Duties and Strategy, Dr. Doyin Odebowale said;

“Let it be reiterated again. There will be no agitation for secession in any part of Ondo State. Prof. Akintoye should submit himself to the people if he is so desirous of representing them.”

“It is presumptuous, denigrating and condescendingly spiteful for a group of hustlers, living largely in anonymity but struggling for relevance, to keep proclaiming and legislating on issues which affect the destiny of a whole people, without the faintest suggestion of paying even scant regard to their feelings or extending due courtesy to the real representatives of the people whose opinions they discount as unimportant.”

“The people are discerning. They know the impostors. They have not forgotten the activities of the suborned agitators, the presumed penitent activists.”

“The Ondo people, and indeed Yoruba are the easiest to lead but the most difficult to deceive. With them sophistry and demagoguery have their limits.”