Nnamdi Kanu’s group, Yoruba groups meet, call for dissolution of Nigeria

Position of Yoruba, Igbo and Nigerian Ethnic minorities at a meeting held
in the United States

Irohinoodua presents to you joint position taken by Nnamdi Kanu, Akintoye, Yoruba, Igbo, Middle Belt and Ethnic Minorities at a meeting held in the United States on Wednesday

The groups call for dissolution of Nigeria.

Part of the letter reads, “We welcome the world media to the inaugural press conference of the Coalition for De￾Amalgamation and Security (CODES). An alliance of indigenous civil forces and ethnic
nationalities peacefully agitating to de-amalgamate Nigeria in order to end the pervading circle
of violence and humanitarian crisis in Nigeria. CODES is championed by the two largest
Southern nationalities, the Odùduwà (Yorùbá in the West) and the Biafra (Igbo in the East),
whose peoples have endured systemic corruption, terrorism, displacement, and political
exclusion under the present arrangement.
Nigeria today survives not on truth, justice, or consent, but on systemic denial and
institutionalized falsehood. The state persistently misrepresents realities on the ground,
misleading its own citizens and the international community while concealing mass atrocities,
unchecked terrorism, and a growing humanitarian disaster. This culture of deception has replaced
accountability and rendered the Nigerian state incapable of protecting lives or commanding
moral legitimacy.
Therefore, the Odùduwà (Yorùbá) and Biafran (Igbo) nations, together representing the largest
concentration of Judeo-Christian communities in Africa, with vibrant indigenous institutions and
a globally influential diaspora, hereby announce a historic alliance for the peaceful de￾amalgamation of Nigeria. This De-Amalgamation Congress is open to all indigenous nations
trapped within the Nigerian state. It is a non-violent, lawful, and internationally recognized
exercise of self-determination, born not of necessity and survival. Necessitated by decades of
systemic injustice, insecurity, and the state’s persistent failure to protect its peoples.
Our collaboration reflects not extremism, but exhaustion with lies and insecurity, and a lawful
insistence on dignity, safety, and political consent. Our demand for self-determination is
legitimate, peaceful, and just. It is grounded in international law, including the UN Charter, the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ Rights. The Yoruba/Igbo partnership represents a historic choice to replace coercion
with consent and instability with sustainable peace. Faced with state-tolerated violence,
terrorism, and the constant threat to impose sharia nationwide, we affirm before the world that
only a peaceful separation through self-determination is the only guarantee of security, justice, and survival for its long-suffering peoples.

“The current crisis in Nigeria, while it has its roots in colonial amalgamation structures, from the
British colonial indirect rule via the caliphate, to post-colonial centralization, it is fueled and sustained by high-level stolen state resources looted through systemic corruption by caliphate
aligned forces. Nigeria has preserved a corrupt powerful structure that concentrates authority in the caliphate in the north and marginalized plural identities thus weakening federal balance. The 1914 amalgamation, imposed on us without consent was a colonial convenience, not a social contract. Independence did not dismantle this injustice; it inherited and entrenched it. A state
founded without consent cannot indefinitely survive against consent.

“Historical Roots of the Crisis: The Sokoto Jihad and the Birth of an Unequal State.
The present Nigerian crisis cannot be understood without confronting the 19th-century Sokoto
Jihad/Fulani terrorism (1804–1810) led by Usman dan Fodio, which created a caliphate state
built by force and corruption, a political legacy that continues to shape power relations in Nigeria
today. Today’s Fulani terrorism across Nigeria widely seen as a modern echo of the 1804 jihad’s
legacy of territorial expansion and terrorism where:

• Islamic terrorism in its most barbaric form is framed as religious reform.
• Indigenous Hausa rulers were overthrown, populations murdered, displaced, or
  subjugated, and this legacy continues today.
• Vast territories, including parts of today’s Middle Belt, continues to be violently
  appropriated.
• Slavery, Islamic jizya extraction, sharia and religious hierarchy are institutionalized.
  Under the political banner of “Arewa” the caliphate maintains a very sophisticated control
  system where indigenous Northern identities and privileges are subverted to maintain the
  caliphate political domination of the region. Since amalgamation, Northern Nigeria: Hausa,
  Nupe, Kanuri, and others have suffered colonial distortion of identity, governance, post￾independence elite capture, deep poverty, ecological collapse, structural illiteracy, and chronic
  insecurity that has made their region the epicenter of Islamic terrorism and mass displacement.
  Within this breakdown, communities in parts of the Middle Belt and North accuse armed Fulani
  militants/terrorists of mass killings and displacement of Christian populations, seizing ancestral
  lands, burning and destruction of farmlands, imposing illegal taxes, and enforcing sharia law in a
  constitutionally secular state amid perceived state inaction. As the Nigerian state repeatedly fails
  to protect lives, restore land, enforce the rule of law, or provide accountable governance,
  insecurity hardens into a crisis of legitimacy, and fear replaces citizenship. In this context, self￾determination is advanced as a practical necessity: a locally accountable political order is seen
  as the only credible guarantee of security, justice, and durable peace where centralized authority
  has persistently failed.

“Terror, Expansion, and the Middle Belt Trauma.
The Middle Belt nations: Tiv, Idoma, Berom, Jukun, Eggon, Bachama, and others, with a great
Christan population, have endured a long ordeal rooted in their forced subordination to caliphate￾era structures, colonial indirect rule, and a post-colonial Nigerian state that has repeatedly failed
to protect them. Historically treated as buffer populations, they have faced land dispossession,
cultural suppression, and political marginalization, which in recent decades has escalated into
persistent violence marked by village raids, mass displacement, mass killings, farm destruction,
church burning, rape, and the erosion of ancestral ownership, often amid allegations of impunity
and uneven state response. Caught between identities, denied effective self-rule, and left exposed
in a security vacuum, Middle Belt communities increasingly experience Nigeria not as a neutral
guarantor but as an absent or biased authority. In this continuum of conquest, neglect, and
insecurity, self-determination is articulated as the only credible path to peace and security,
one that restores local control over land, law, and protection, and replaces perpetual vulnerability
with governance rooted in consent and survival. Under dan Fodio’s successors, including Sultan
Attahiru and Muhammad Bello, the most violent terrorists of the caliphate, the caliphate
expanded southward:

• Non-Muslim and non-Fulani communities were raided, murdered, taxed, and enslaved in
  the North and parts of middle-Belt.
• Entire societies lost land, autonomy, and population.
• The Middle Belt became a buffer zone of perpetual violence, a condition that persists into
  the present day.
  The insecurity ravaging the Middle Belt today is not accidental; it is the continuation of
  unresolved historical conquest.

1. The Forced Fracturing of Yorùbá Sovereignty: Ilorin and the Afonja Betrayal
   The installation of a Fulani emirate in Ilorin marked a decisive rupture in Yoruba history,
   representing the first permanent loss of Yoruba land to an external caliphate system and setting in
   motion a long trajectory of political dispossession that Nigeria has never corrected. What began
   as a frontier crisis during the collapse of the Oyo Empire was transformed into enduring
   domination when Ilorin was absorbed into the Sokoto Caliphate and later cemented by British
   colonial rule, which deliberately subordinated Yoruba historical claims to the convenience of
   indirect rule through emirate of Ilorin. This foundational injustice carried into post-colonial
   Nigeria, where centralized power, manipulated federalism, and repeated exclusions, most
   traumatically the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election, reinforced the perception that Yoruba
   political agency would only be tolerated, never respected. Combined with ongoing security
   failures, land conflicts, demographic pressures, cultural erosion, and a state that appears unable
   or unwilling to protect indigenous autonomy, many Yoruba interpret their experience as a
   continuous pattern of conquest without war and marginalization without remedy. In this context,
   the demand for Yoruba self-determination is born of historical memory and survival: Ilorin
   stands as a warning that sovereignty once lost is rarely restored, and Nigeria’s structure has
   repeatedly confirmed that lesson rather than healed it. The Ilorin emirate stands as a stark symbol
   of how the caliphate undermined Yorùbá territorial integrity.

“Afonja’s alliance with Fulani clerics against the Alaafin of Oyo resulted in betrayal. Ilorin
was absorbed into the Sokoto Caliphate.

• Yorùbá sovereignty was disrupted in that part of Yorubaland.
  This was not diplomacy, it was subjugation through force, the consequences of which remain
  unresolved today.

1. The Igbo nightmare: Post-Independence Collapse and the Biafran Genocide.
   From colonial amalgamation to the present, the Igbo experience in Nigeria has been marked by
   systemic insecurity rather than equal citizenship. British rule dismantled Igbo political systems
   and forced them into an artificial state that soon proved hostile, culminating in the 1966 pogroms
   in which tens of thousands of Igbos were killed without state protection. The Biafran declaration
   that followed was a survival response, yet it was met with a devastating scorched earth military
   aggression that weaponized starvation and left millions of Christian Igbos dead, a trauma never
   formally acknowledged or repaired. Post-war policies entrenched exclusion through economic
   dispossession, political marginalization, and deliberate underdevelopment of the South-East,
   while contemporary Nigeria continues this pattern via underrepresentation, militarized repression
   of dissent, and the criminalization of Igbo self-expression. In this unbroken historical chain,
   Nigeria has repeatedly failed its most basic duty to guarantee Igbo safety and dignity; therefore,
   the call for self-determination is a sober, lawful argument that only a self-governing framework
   freely chosen by the people can offer a credible and lasting guarantee of security, justice, and
   stability.
2. Colonial Engineering of Fulani Dominance: British Indirect Rule Tactics.
   At independence, Nigeria inherited a state structurally tilted toward caliphate-derived power, an
   imbalance that has never been corrected. The British colonial administration:

• Preserved and empowered caliphate institutions.
• Ruled Northern Nigeria through Fulani emirs.
• Dismantled or weakened southern indigenous governance.
• The British continues to extend post-colonial influence in Nigeria through the caliphate.
  6 Contemporary Terror and State Failure.
  The attention of the whole world has recently been riveted on Nigeria as a result of the invasion
  of its civil spaces by Islamic terrorists operating from three strategic directions, viz:
• The Fulani Herdsmen/Miyetti Allah who are a hybrid of the Fulani at home in Nigeria
  and their imported cousins from the West and Central African sub regions;
• The Boko Haram (real name: Jama’at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da’wa wa al-Jihad (JAS),
  meaning “Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawah and Jihad,” ). The “Boko Haram”
  name translates roughly to “Western education is forbidden” and The ISWAP (Islamic State West African Province) which is a loose combination of Al
  Qaeda, Al Shabab, and the remnants of ISIS who have a burning desire to recreate the
  ISIS idea with headquarters in West Africa and the Sahel.
  Across large swathes of Nigeria, communities have been violently uprooted from their ancestral
  lands. Villages, farmlands, churches, and livelihoods are destroyed yet perpetrators are rarely
  prosecuted. Victims are rarely resettled. Justice is systematically deferred. Even more disturbing,
  state-sponsored programs purporting to rehabilitate perpetrators have proceeded without
  transparency, consent of victims, or credible accountability mechanisms, while the displaced
  remain dispossessed. This inversion of justice, which comforts the aggressors and neglects the
  victims, has severely shattered public trust.
  Nigeria today faces an existential security crisis:
• Boko Haram, ISWAP, Fulani militias, and armed herder networks operate with alarming
  impunity.
• Entire communities in the North West, North East, North Central/Middle Belt, South
  East, the Niger Delta and South West are continually attacked.
  Eyewitness testimonies, video evidence, and local investigations consistently report:
• attackers identifying as Fulani militants,
• security forces arriving late, or not at all,
• military helicopters dropping supplies to Fulani terrorists in the forest.
• Fulani terrorists displaying their kidnappers and ransoms on social media.
• victims left without justice.
• Nigeria army burning ancestral homes in the South East
• Nigeria security forces openly colluding with the Fulani terrorists.
  The Fulani caliphate has turned terrorism into a lucrative business franchise in Nigeria. Human
  security has become very expensive in Nigeria. The Nigerian state has failed its primary duty:
  the protection of lives and properties. Fulanis from outside Nigeria have used terrorism with state
  protection to steal ancestral lands and remap Nigerian territories, undermining state authority by
  imposing sharia and tax on unprotected communities.

1. Selective Justice and Political Persecution.
   Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Chief Sunday Igboho embody the persistent call for self-determination,
   yet Nigeria wastes resources persecuting them while enabling Fulani terrorists who threaten
   lives, land and sovereignty, proving that only self-determination can guarantee the security and
   dignity the state refuses to uphold. While violent actors roam free.

“Peaceful self-determination advocates such as Chief Sunday Igboho and Mazi Nnamdi
Kanu have been pursued and persecuted with extraordinary state resources.

• Mazi Nnamdi Kanu remains detained despite court orders while,
• Chief Sunday Igboho remains wanted by the state.
• Thousands of Biafran and Odùduwà youths are reportedly held in military facilities
  across Nigeria without trial for defending their villages from Fulani terror.
  This selective application of law has destroyed confidence in the Nigerian state.

1. Operation Safe Corridor and the Recycling of Violence.
   An Afghan-style state capture is in the works in Nigeria. Extremist Fulani Calipahte-aligned
   interests unashamedly continue to hollow out national institutions from within rather than
   overthrowing them outright. This capture spans the armed forces, the central bank, judiciary, and
   the political system. Programs such as Operation Safe Corridor, while framed as a
   deradicalization and rehabilitation initiative, has demonstrated that Nigeria lacks the institutional
   capacity, oversight mechanisms, and societal trust required to rehabilitate hardened murderous
   jihadists. Yet former terrorists are released into traumatized communities, some are given army
   uniforms and sent to the South East to hunt indigenous freedom agitators, while their victims
   remain abandoned in underfunded and overcrowded Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps,
   without justice, restitution, or security. So-called “rehabilitation” programs have:

• Returned unrepentant terrorists to traumatized communities without consent.
• Failed to provide justice for victims.
• Deepened fear of an Afghan-style collapse, where extremists are normalized within state
  structures.

1. Hypocrisy at the Highest Level: Victims Abandoned, Image Polished.
   The Nigerian masses especially millions of Judeo-Christians and other vulnerable population are
   eternally grateful to President Donald Trump and the great people of America for their
   courageous support of persecuted Judeo-Christian people of Nigeria. Despite US intervention,
   the Fulani terrorists have continued to terrorize Nigerians in the North, middle belt and the
   South. Christians are still targeted, abductions in churches, killings and kidnappings continue to
   be perpetrated by these Fulani extremists. Credible reports indicate that the Nigerian government
   has recently retained high-cost lobbying and public-relations services in Washington, allegedly
   running into millions of dollars, for the purpose of countering international scrutiny, particularly
   on allegations of mass atrocities and religious persecution. Whether the precise figures are nine
   million dollars or otherwise, the moral contradiction is unmistakable. While internally displaced
   persons, mostly Judeo-Christians and other vulnerable communities, languish in makeshift
   camps, without food, medicine, or security, while survivors sleep under plastic sheets dependent.

“on charity, while widows, orphans, and the elderly remain abandoned by the state, the
government finds resources to polish its image abroad, rather than heal its people at home. This
is not governance. It is moral bankruptcy.
We must sound a dire note of warning to the whole world that should the Islamic terrorists be
allowed, either by omission or commission, neglect or nonchalance, to have ascendancy and
control over the total geographic space of present day Nigeria, the horror, atrocities and genocide
perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Levant will be a child’s play
when compared with the horrendous agenda of these demonic hordes. THE WORLD MUST
RISE TO STOP IT or be prepared to accommodate a humanitarian catastrophe and mass
migration that could swamp the whole of Africa and many parts of the world. We must remember
that Nigeria’s population is a quarter of Africa!

10. Media Silence and International Indifference.
    For decades, the Nigerian state has refused to name its crisis honestly. What communities
    experience as systematic terror, displacement, and religious targeting, the Nigerian media
    rebrands as: “Communal clashes” Hardened Fulani terrorists are rebranded as “Bandits”, wanton
    Fulani terror on vulnerable Christian communities rebranded as “Farmer-herder disputes”. This
    deliberate euphemism is not accidental; it is state policy engineered to protect the caliphate.
    By denying the ideological, religious, and organized character of the violence, the Nigeria’s
    mainstream media has largely:

• Downplayed mass killings in rural and minority communities.
• Criminalized victims who organize for self-defense or self-determination.
• Echoed official narratives while ignoring eyewitness evidence.
• Caused silence to become complicity.
• Shielded the state and the caliphate from accountability,
• Silenced victims and
• Protected Caliphate terror chief enablers and spokesmen like Sheikh Ahmed Gumi.
  A government that cannot speak truth about violence cannot end it.

10. Peaceful Self-Determination: The Only Viable Path
    Nigeria is on the brink of a catastrophic civil war driven by perceived attempts at forced
    Islamization, unchecked Fulani caliphate linked terrorism, and the collapse of state protection,
    with communities increasingly convinced that survival, not politics, is at stake. In a country of
    over 230 million people, mostly young and economically vulnerable, such a war would detonate
    a humanitarian and migration crisis of global proportions, destabilizing West Africa and beyond.
    Peaceful self-determination is the only immediate, non-violent escape route: • it defuses zero-sum domination,

• restores consent,
• strips extremists of grievance fuel, and
• replaces looming mass bloodshed with lawful political choice.
  A great crisis is looming in Nigeria, the window for prevention is rapidly closing. UN Charter
  (Article 1) affirms the right of peoples to self-determination. ICCPR and ICESCR recognize
  political self-choice. African Charter affirms peoples’ rights to existence and autonomy under
  democratic practice. In Canada (Quebec, Manitoba, and Alberta), the United Kingdom (Scotland,
  Wales), and other mature democracies: Referendum advocacy is lawful. Political identity is not
  criminalized. Dialogue is protected, not punished. Nigeria’s refusal to allow peaceful self￾determination places it outside democratic civilization, not within it.
  Nigeria is no longer held together by consent. Where a state: cannot guarantee security, cannot
  apply justice equally, and cannot command the trust of its peoples, self-determination becomes
  a necessity, not a threat.

10. Why De-Amalgamation Is Now Imperative
    Amid relentless state-backed caliphate expansion and terrorism, de-amalgamation of Nigeria
    emerges as a pragmatic necessity for survival: decades of selective state protection, impunity for
    armed groups, and erosion of constitutional secularism have proven that centralized authority can
    no longer guarantee safety or justice. Nigeria’s crisis is no longer merely political; it is
    existential. Every attempt to preserve unity by force has increased violence, deepened mistrust,
    and expanded humanitarian crisis.
    Self-determination is not secessionist extremism. It is a conflict-prevention mechanism when a
    state has irreparably failed in its primary duty. Self-determination, granting autonomous
    governance to historically distinct nations offer the only credible path to restore security, protect
    communities, and preserve cultural and political sovereignty within a lawful and peaceful
    framework.
    We therefore call for:

• The recognition of the state of Biafra (Igbo) and Oduduwa (Yoruba) nations.
• The immediate release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and all detainees held solely for self￾determination advocacy.
• Immediate cessation of the hunt for Chief Sunday Igboho.
• An international investigation into mass killings and state complicity.
• A UN-recognized referendum process for all indigenous nations who seek it.
• Protection for vulnerable Christian and indigenous communities across Nigeria.
• Immediate end to sharia law and disarming of the Fulani and other terrorists.

“The Promise of New Nations
A free Yoruba and Biafra sovereign nations would represent:

• Consent-based governance.
• Accountability to citizens.
• Protection of religious and cultural pluralism.
  Their diasporas already demonstrate extraordinary achievements in: Medicine, Technology, Law,
  Entrepreneurship, and Academia. What they lack is not capacity, but freedom.
  Conclusion
  Long before the artificial creation of Nigeria in 1914, Biafra and Odùduwà nations existed as
  distinct, organized civilizations with defined territories, governance systems, economies, and
  international trade networks, meeting every classical and modern criterion of nationhood. The
  peoples of Biafra, anchored by Igbo republican institutions and closely linked coastal polities,
  developed sophisticated systems of self-governance, commerce, craftsmanship, and diplomacy,
  sustaining one of Africa’s most dynamic mercantile cultures, while Odùduwà/Yorùbá civilization
  built enduring city-states such as Ile-Ife, Oyo, Ijebu, and Ibadan, with advanced political
  administration, military organization, law, and culture. These nations were not “tribes” but
  functioning polities forcibly subsumed into a colonial construct designed for British imperial
  convenience, not indigenous stability.
  Today, both Odùduwà and Biafra possess all objective prerequisites for viability: large, educated,
  entrepreneurial populations; abundant human and mineral resources, strategic geography with
  access to ports and trade corridors; strong internal cohesion; deep industrial, agricultural, and
  technological potential; and one of the most economically powerful and globally connected
  diasporas in Africa. Their peoples consistently outperform national averages in innovation,
  remittances, and private-sector productivity despite systemic exclusion and insecurity. The
  argument is therefore not speculative but empirical:
• these nations thrived before Nigeria,
• sustain Nigeria today through disproportionate economic contribution, and would thrive
  even more as self-governing entities capable of guaranteeing security, protecting
  minorities, cooperating with neighbors, and contributing to regional and global stability.
  The Biafra–Odùduwà alliance is not a declaration of war. It is a declaration of truth, dignity, and
  peaceful intent. Forced unity has failed. Silence has failed. Repression has failed. Self￾determination is the only remaining path to lasting peace, stability, and regional security.

“The only solution that can guarantee the safety and sustainable security of the constituent nations
within Nigeria is a complete and total dissolution of the country and separation into individual
ethnic nations like the Oduduwa and Biafra nations, among others. This will make it totally
impossible for the jihadists to penetrate defined borders and confront organized armies ready and
prepared to defend their territories and eliminate alien forces.”