COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE APAPO OMO YAGBA AT THE APAPO YAGBA SUMMIT TAGED “UNITY SUMMIT” 2025. HELD AT THE COMMUNITY TOWN HALL, MOPA, ON MONDAY 21ST, APRIL 2025
PREAMBLES
AOY 2025 THEME: Unity in diversity: Building a brighter future for Yagbaland
The APAPO OMO YAGBA is a sociocultural organization that was formed to champion the well-being of the people of Yagbaland which consist of Yagba West Local Government Area, Yagba East Local Government Area and Mopamuro Local Government Area. The Organization is saddled with the responsibility to among others, strengthen the bonds of unity among the Yagba people.
The 2025 Yagba Summit was conveyed as a child of necessity and as an avenue for the stakeholders to meet, brainstorm and seek solutions to various challenges confronting us as a people.
After extensive discussions, presentations and deliberations, the following was resolved;
The Summit Resolved that the Unity of Yagba Nation is non-negotiable giving it’s attendant importance to our development.
The Summit agreed that we should continue to preach Unity because it is said that “United that we stand, divided we fall” and that it is only in unity we can find strength to overcome our various challenges.
The summit agreed that the terrible state of Federal Roads in Yagba land is no longer acceptable and that all elected and appointed political office holders in conjunction with Yagba Sons and daughters with capacity should immediately interface with relevant agencies of government to ensure that our roads are fixed. Without good road, our economic fortunes may suffer serious setback.
The summit resolved that since the exploration of our mineral resources has posed as a security challenge to Yagbaland, the strengthening of our security system has become imminent.
On the infrastructural development lapses, the summit also called on the political office holders, civil servant, business moguls and relevant personalities to intensify lobby for the establishment of Federal presence in Yagba land like universities, polytechnics and establishment of branches of Federal agencies on Yagbaland.
On Youth Empowerment, the summit recognized the importance of Youths, hence under utilization of their potentials through unemployment and under employment is no more acceptable. Hence, our Youths must be adequately engaged through job or employment procurement in both Federal civil service and Agencies and at the state level. It was however resolved that all efforts should be done to ensure that our youths are exposed to and supported, and to be encouraged by our elected and appointed politicians to invest on Youth empowerment initiatives.
Infrastructure is another important issue discussed, experts agreed that without efficient infrastructure, development may be an illusion, thus it is imperative that our people invest heavily on infrastructure.
Qualitative Education, quality health care delivery, good roads connecting communities and reliable power supply should be given much priority as this will enhance better life for our people.
It was also further agreed that the Royal fathers should interface with the Governor to provide more funds to the local councils to be able to handle the security issues in their various local government
The summit further appealed to the our Local Government Council Chairmen in Yagba Land to synergize their efforts, compare notes and work with the conventional security agencies to fight insecurity.
It was further resolved that, Apapo Omo YAGBA should give supports to our local hunters and other security agents for effectiveness and efficiency.
It is also important to have a separate account for security trust funds and put a strategy in place to make the collection and spending of such funds transparent. The committee strategy will include getting more people that are not in AOY platform to key in, especially those commercial drivers and farmers that are mostly hit by the activities of these criminals.
AOY should organize a regular town hall meeting, where our political office holders from Local Government, State and Federal will be engaged. This will go a long way to get them connected to the electorate for feedback and most of the important issues can be discussed on how to make them more proactive to give us the best representation.
A lobbyist committee should be constituted to identify most of our people in both public and private places and see how best we can take advantage of their positions to help in the development of Yagba and to create employment opportunities for our youth.
Our Royal fathers should try as much as possible to reach out to their children both home and abroad to encourage them to come and invest at home. And also assure them of the safety of such investment as we have a lot of billionaires in Yagba that don’t have single investment in our land with all these opportunities in our land most especially solid minerals. Also it won’t be out of place if a special prayer season is organized periodically to pray for development of our land.
ENGR. AYODELE OSASONA – Chairman AOY Unity Summit 2025 , Organizing Committee
HON. PRINCE PHILIP OREBIYI
Secretary AOY Unity Summit 2025
