Yoruba leader, Prof. Banji Akintoye, has lauded the Southwest Governors  for adopting a single Anthem.
The governors, had on Monday, in Lagos adopted a common anthem,
In a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan by Dr. Tunde Amusat, Akintoye also congratulated all Yoruba sons and daughters for the feat.
He said by the act, the  governors had  won the hearts of all Yoruba people everywhere.
The leader said: ‘’On behalf of the many millions of Yoruba people in our Yoruba Self-determination Struggle, constituting the overwhelming majority of Yoruba men and women in Yoruba land in Nigeria and in the Yoruba Diaspora in nearly all countries across the world, I congratulate and thank the State Governors of the six Yoruba States of the Nigerian Southwest for the brave, patriotic and courageous step they took in their meeting in Lagos yesterday, June 10, 2024, by adopting and proudly singing together the Yoruba National Anthem ISE WA FUN ILE WA.
‘’By this act, you our State Governors have won the hearts of all Yoruba people everywhere. You have justified our decision that we shall not engage in criticisms of our State Governors, but will rather expend out energies on the noble task of liberating our dear Yoruba people from the hideous conditions of Nigeria and establishing our own separate Yoruba country where progress, prosperity, security, pride and happiness shall reign for all our people.
‘’In our self-determination struggle, we have always confidently asserted that our men and women who are involved in Nigerian governance intrinsically have much better to give than they are giving in Nigeria, and that when we come to our own separate Yoruba country, all our public officials will rise up and serve our people as dedicated and incorruptible public officials.
‘’When our Governors jointly adopted and sang our Yoruba National Anthem yesterday they were telling us and the whole world that they are indeed Yoruba in every way, that they are true. products of the civilization-building Yoruba Nation, and that, in our own separate Yoruba country, they will easily throw off the despicable garb of Nigeria and become true Yoruba citizens, true Yoruba public servants and true Yoruba leaders’’.
The history professor said the people of the region understood why the governors might have denounced  the Yoruba self-determination struggle.
‘’You don’t need to feel guilty for that. Our separate sovereign Yoruba Nation is surely coming. It will soon come to liberate the love for our people in the hearts of all of us. It will soon come to liberate our creative and enterprising energies and thereby make our country one of the leading countries in the world. It will soon come to make us Yoruba people again the loving, laughing, illuminated family that the Almighty God made us to be’’, he added.