We Are Yoruba, We Want To Come Back Home. The people of Okunland in the western part of Kogi State have called on the Ooni of Ife to help them beg President Bola Tinubu to bring them back to the Southwestern region of the country to be with their Yoruba brothers and sisters.

We Are Yoruba, We Want To Come Back Home. 

The people of Okunland in the western part of Kogi State have called on the Ooni of Ife to help them beg President Bola Tinubu to bring them back to the Southwestern region of the country to be with their Yoruba brothers and sisters.  

Okunland encompasses six Local Government Areas (LGAs): 

i. Kabba-Bunu, 

ii. Ijumu, 

iii. Yagba East, 

iv. Yagba West, 

v. Mopa-Muro, and 

vi. parts of Lokoja.

According to their paramount ruler and the Chairman of the Okun Area Traditional Council Oba Dr. Solomon Dele Owoniyi who visited the Ooni in his Ife Palace, 

"We are renewing our sworn oath of 100% allegiance to you, our father, the Ooni of Ife, who is Arole of Oddua. 

We never agreed to be in Northcentral. 

Please, help us return home and save us from these chains of slavery. 

We are tired of being 2nd-class Yorubas"- Òkun Council of Obas begs Ooniirisa Ojaja II