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To all social media activists who refer to Akintoye as the only yorubas' leader, but are promoting what he didn't ask them to do: the regional government.

To all social media activists who refer to Akintoye as the only yorubas' leader, but are promoting what he didn't ask them to do: the regional government.

Methodically you are making very big mistakes. You are undermining the motivation to the Yoruba nation of our sisters and brothers by inoculating doubt in their mind.
You are attempting to force others to showcase hidden strategies. Also serious is that you are reducing the bargaining power of the very Yoruba governors that you think you are helping.

What Yoruba want Is not a regional government but a Yoruba nation. When you go to negotiate, if you ask for 6, your interlocutor could say: <<Ok guy, my maximum effort is 5>>. But if you ask 10, he could agree for 7 or 8 or 9.
Now, you also argue that a civilian government can hardly disaggregate the actual country, but a military could. Have you forgotten that this same military cancelled the western government of Awo? Why do you want us to come back to what we had almost 60 years ago? In a shape analysis, you are sustaining the same thing Afenifere wants: AMALGAMATION.  By not only opting for a ''no progress choice'', but more, accepting to return to what any military will decide tomorrow morning to cancel? You admit this yourself. As they already did to us in '66 by cancelling Awo's government!!

Why not courageously stand for what our leader baba Akintoye, representing the majority of yorubas, is asking? A Yoruba nation where no military could come to do what he dreams. Activists who adhere to a leader's vision have to respect: the DISCIPLINE of the movement. They must stand resolutely behind the leader and the movement and promote his mission and statements all the time until new order.
The individual quality of the activist adhering to a movement is not to be found in his ability to invent themes, but rather in how he succeeds in getting the message of the movement across, raising awareness among audiences (young people, adults and elders, women and men,...) and relaying information from ground. Freedom of analysis must be circumscribed within the movement's frame of reference.We could mention here one or more executives of the movement who are responsible for training activists.  Knowing the ins and outs of what we are analyzing, of our questions, requires good preparation behind the scene before externalizing it.

AMALGAMATION.

During colonization, the French used a direct rule system with central authorities. But when it came to independence, in regions like Yoruba nation (a coastal region) associated with northern regions (sahalian regions), local authorities opposed amalgamation. So Senegal separated from Mali, Ivory-Coast separated from Burkina.

The British practiced the indirect rule system. That means they have preserved our traditions and given authority to local leaders. From there, we can argue that amalgamation was a choice of local authorities. Our pioneers wanted amalgamation. Most are accusing the British and Lugard for having amalgamated Yoruba region with other parts.  But is Adebanjo a british or Lugard? Are those activists supporting the regional government, also British or Lugard?  

Pa adebanjo is there to prove it. Up to tomorrow, he believes as iron, arguing that amalgamation is the only way for yorubas. And some young people, yoruba activists, are supporting this. They want a regional government. According to some, it's a strategy! An ancient strategy that failed more than 50 years ago.
But, damn! Should Yorubas remain second all life? Who destroyed the regional government? Who subtly transferred most of the power to the north? What do the yorubas in turn propose? A return to what others have destroyed?

MOVEMENT DISCIPLINE.

For success, a movement needs internal discipline.  By respecting roles and positions, prerogatives, and more in the movement. Social media activists that adhere to a leader in a certain way must follow, diffuse and support the movement' s topics. They need to have a reference person or office for the media in the movement that guides them, programmatically, on hot topics of the movement, but also in respect to the actuality. That will help them schedule and modularise their activities on the media, and to decide their contents and direct or indirect invitees  and the questions they would like to make or they will allow.