CITIZENS COMPASS– THE leader and Chairman, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide,Prof Banji Akintoye, has withdrawn his resignation letter from the leadership of the group and returned to office.
Akintoye disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, entitled, “My humble response to the request that I should withdraw my letter of resignation,” accepted to withdraw the letter.
It reads, “Three weeks ago, I wrote to inform Ilana Omo Oduduwa that I was resigning from my leadership position in the organisation. I made it clear that my resignation was due only to the need for me at my advanced age to trim off my responsibilities in Ilana to devote my energies to pressing challenges in the higher spheres of our Yoruba self-determination struggle.
“Since then, I have received, from all sections of Ilana, messages or letters rejecting my resignation and urging me to continue to make the sacrifice of leading Ilana. In the past week, I have been visited for the same purpose by leading persons representing the Elders Advisory Council, the Ilana Secretariat, and the two formerly differing sections of Ilana.
As I now return, I expect cooperation, mutual respect, brotherliness and disciplined conduct from all our members at home and in the Diaspora. As a disciplined self-determination organisation crucial to the realisation of our collective resolve to exit the contraption called Nigeria, there is an immediate need to harmonise and unify all the tendencies in IOOW.
“I hereby use this opportunity to announce the dissolution of all IOOW factions largely brought about by infiltration of our rank and file by adversaries within and without,” said Akintoye.
The withdrawal of the resignation letter came barely three days after the immediate leader and Chairman, Wale Adeniran.
