By 
Abiodun OBA
A Yoruba self-determination group, Yoruba Koya Liberation Movement (YKLM), has reminded people in leadership positions that everything that has a beginning surely has an end.
The group told President Muhammadu Buhari and others that no oppressor has ever triumphed against the people.
The group also has the same words for officers of the Nigerian Government behind the current travail of Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho in the Republic of Benin.
Yoruba Koya, in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Communications, Oluwafemi Oluwajuyitan, urged Nigerian leaders putting political pressure on Benin Republic to jail Ighoho to remember that nothing last forever.
“Events unfolding in recent times has made it imperative to remind those who currently wield power to tread softly and remember that everything with a start will surely have an end.
“Recent events only reminds one that in the face of suppression of truth and oppression of the masses, the oppressors have always consistently lost at the end.
“One cannot help but remember the brutish rule and reign of the dark-goggled General Abacha and how he ruled with iron fist. We remember how individuals who stood for the truth and the declaration of June 12 election were hounded by state-sponsored hitmen. We remember how the dictator ended in ignominy,” the group said.
According to the group, the present administration, being a democratically elected government, had surpassed previous military juntas in the bare-knuckled use of brute force to silence every voice of dissent.
It said more worrisome is the rate of nepotism and barely veiled attempt to lord an ethnic group over others.
“The dual law being applied by the state is also a cause for concern as bandits, terrorists and kidnappers in certain parts of country are treated to sumptuous dinner with state actors while agitators for self-determination of their people are hounded and treated as common criminals.
“The gestapo invasion of Chief Sunday Igboho’s house, the killing and abduction of his associates and his eventual arrests in Benin Republic at the request of this government are testament of this government’s effort at ensuring that their lawlessness remain unchecked.
“We as a Yoruba self-determination group sees it’s time that this government and its actors of impunity are reminded that nothing lasts forever.
“Nigerians are in countdown to the end of this administration even as calls are made to the International Criminal Court to keep the dossier of reports sent to them as they will become useful in no distant future”, the statement, said.
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