Igbomina Youths Appeal to Governor Abdulrazaq Over Land Acquisition for Ilorin Smart City

Date: 2025-02-17

The youths of Igbomina descent in the Kwara South district of Kwara State, under the umbrella of the Igbomina Youth Assembly, have urged Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to reconsider the decision to acquire Igbomina land for the Ilorin Smart City project.

Addressing journalists in Ilorin, the group's chairman, Olugbenga Friday Ajibola, explained that the appeal was made in the interest of maintaining peace and harmony within the community.

While expressing support for the project itself, the youth assembly requested that the 19,301 hectares earmarked in Ifelodun Local Government Area for inclusion in the Ilorin Smart City be excluded from the initiative. They emphasized their desire to ensure the project does not infringe upon the ancestral lands of the Igbomina people.

Members of the youth group, who said that they are not against the project, added that the 19,301 hectares, marked out in the Ifelodun local government area to be part of the Ilorin Smart City, be exempted from the project.

“To the government and our amiable governor of the state, Mallam Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, we the entire youth of Igbominaland (home and abroad) crave your understanding on this issue. We believe you are a peace-loving governor and father to all citizens and residents of the state, and no father will wish or take any step that could lead to anarchy or disharmony under his watch.

“Projects such as Ilorin Smart City on Igbominaland is capable of creating disharmony among the citizens of the state. We, therefore, call on His Excellency to please, as a father to all in the state, to call whosoever or government agency responsible for this to order.

“In clear term, while we are not opposing the project in its entirety, we are requesting that the 19,301 hectares marked out in Ifelodun Local Government to be part of the Ilorin Smart City be exempted from the project.

“If there is still life, there is hope” for Igbomina people; it is just a matter of time. A time will come when the development of other senatorial districts of the state will be of paramount importance to the government of Kwara state. We rather wait till then than concede our heritage to other communities in the name of developmental project,” Ajibola said.

Ajibola described the Igbomina Youth Assembly as the unifying body for the community-based youth organisation in rural, semi-urban and urban areas of Igbominaland with an estimated population of 65,500 nominal members covering geographical areas of the South and the Central senatorial districts of Kwara state and by extension Osun state.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Nigerian Medical Association     Oyun     Bluenile Associates     Issa Baba     Kwara State Governor     Kisira     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Jide Ashonibare     Yaru     Ilorin East     Idowu Aremu     Fatimat Saliu     Balogun-Ojomu     Buhari     Ishaq Abdulkarim     Abatemi-Usman     Damilola Yusuf     Abdulkadir Orire     Kwara Apc     A.O. Belgore     Okoolowo     Aliyu Muhammed     Onilu     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     TETFUND     Khairat Gwadabe     Al-Hikmah Radio     Muhammed Abdullahi     Zainab Abass     Jalala     Alikinla     Simeon Ajibola     Bola Magaji     UITH     Amada Jidda     Adama Isa     Mohammed Yisa     Baba-Isale     Ahman Pategi University     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Jani Ibrahim     IF-K     Ayo Adeyemi     Bature Bello     Toyin Falola     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Okala Baba     Muhammed Danjuma     ER-KANG     Idowu Laro     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Police Commissioner     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Oyedepo     Medview Airlines     Kwha.gov.ng     Rafiu Ibrahim     April 11     Barakat Community Secondary School     Olohungbebe     Kulende     NIRSAL     Jimba Babatunde     Durbar     Ramadan     Innocent Okoye     Orisun Igbomina     Asa LGEA School     NULGE     Ahmad Belgore     Hassan A. Saliu     Iyaloja-General     Abdulwaheed Musa     ANCOPPS     Tunji Ajanaku     Iyabo Dupe Adekeye    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

PAACO-PCL Consortium     Akume     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Oke-Ero     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Jalala     Bola Tinubu     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Ajikobi     Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Kisra     V.O. Abioye     Theophilus Oyebiyi     TESCOM     Galadima     Apado     Sulyman Tejidini     Afolasade Opeyemi Kemi     Ademola Kiyesola     Mansur Alfanla     Lola Ashiru     ANCOPPS     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Ayodele Olaosebikan     IHS Towers     Galadiman Ngeri     Simon Sayomi     Balikis Jawondo     Mukhtar Shagaya     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Tsaragi     Ogidi-Oloje     Alloy Chukwuemeka     Lithium Deposit     Maryam Nurudeen     LEAH Charity Foundation     Col. Adedipe     Ile Arugbo     Isau     Otunba Taiwo Joseph     Amuda Musbau     Aminu Ado Bayero     Coronavirus     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Mahee Abdulkadir     Mogaji Aare     JSSCE     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Aliyu U. Tilde     Olatomiwa Williams     Oloriegbe     Pakata Development Association     Abdulazeez Uthman     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Shuaibu Yaman     Tunde Akanbi     Bankole Omishore     Yahaya Dumoye     Siraj Oyewale     Akanbi-Oke     Oya State     Saka Onimago     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Habeeb Saidu     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Kwara Apc     Oluronke Adeyemi     Shoprite     PPS     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     Elese Of Igbaja     Isiaka Gold