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The position of the coalition was disclosed by the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Ige Abiodun Gani Adams.
Aare Adams made the call in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Kehinde Aderemi, on Thursday.
The competition, on Tuesday, had in attendance the Aare Onakakanfo of Yoruba, Iba Gani Abiodun Ige Adams.
The Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatunbosun, revealed this on Thursday.
Aare Adams said the group has, since its inception in 1994, paid its dues in ensuring the progress of Nigeria’s democracy.
The General Secretary of the New Era, Oyename Adebayo, had in a statement said Adams cannot speak for the group.
The Yoruba socio-cultural group gave the charge in a communique issued at the end of its first meeting in the year
The suspects are Alfa Yunusa Atikoko, and Wasiu Ajikanle.
The group sounded the warning in a statement issued on Monday by its Publicity Secretary, Yinka Oguntimehin.
It was gathered that Ibrahim reportedly took her housemaid, who her husband, Kazeem Ayemojuba, an Oodua People’s Congress Commander, impregnated to a community chemist to procure an abortion after it was discovered she was pregnant.
Oba Ogunwusi emerged from his seven days seclusion in an all-white apparel to receive people from home and the Diaspora
The trio who were arrested, charged to court and subsequently detained were released on Tuesday by an Iyaganku Magistrate’s Court.
Reacting in a statement made available to journalists in Lagos, the Lagos state OPC chieftain picked holes in the statements credited to CNG, through its spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, who he described as a featherweight.
Coordinator of OPC in Oyo State, Chief Rotimi Olumo, made the call in Ibadan on Wednesday.
The three members of the group: Awodele Adedigba, Dauda Kazeem and Hassan Ramon, were on Wednesday arraigned before an Oyo State Chief Magistrates Court sitting at Iyaganku, Ibadan on a six-count charge, including conspiracy, arson and murder.
The identities of the perpetrators of the crime could not be immediately ascertained, but police operatives, men of Oodua Peoples Congress and Hunters Group of Nigeria were said to have been deployed in the bush in the area.
Ajulo, who quoted section 12 of Criminal Procedure Act, Section 28(d) of Criminal Procedure Code as well as the Supreme Court Judgment in the case of Nweke V. The State (1965) 1 ALL NLR 114, said the trio has committed no crime. He said a certain section of the Nigerian criminal laws permits citizens arrest of a suspected criminal even without a warrant.
Makinde, who stated this on Monday in Ibadan, appealed to residents of the state to remain calm and to refrain from ethnic profiling.
According to the Founder of the Oodua People’s Congress, the four men were hacked to death at about 2am on Monday (today) by the men who had over time kidnapped, killed and collected more than N800 million in ransom from their victims