On 23 July 1888, Queen Victoria concluded a non-cession treaty with Alaafin Adeyemi of the Yorubaland. The treaty formalised friendship and preferential trade between the peoples of the two sovereign states, which the parties intended to last for ever. The treaty has been dormant since 1890, the year it was ratified, but is still alive today. To make the treaty now operational, the Yoruba community in the UK has formed a political party, the Yoruba Party. However, the treaty cannot be revived because of the act of Amalgamation of 1914, in which Britain unlawfully incorporated the Yorubaland into Nigeria. It is necessary that Parliament repudiates that act of Amalgamation. Parliament has a moral obligation to do so because Britain did not consult the Yoruba people or obtain their consent for the Amalgamation. Also, Britain at that time did not have jurisdiction over the Yorubaland and therefore had no legal right to incorporate the Yorubaland into Nigeria. Annulment of the 1914 act of Amalgamation is within the powers of Parliament. The incorporating jurisdiction of the amalgamation lies in Britain. To correct the injustice that Britain perpetrated on the Yoruba people in 1914, the Yoruba Party shall sponsor a legislation: the Restoration of Sovereignty to the Yorubaland Act.

Trade benefits to Britain of the Yorubaland Act

Britain is desperate for overseas markets. A sovereign Yorubaland would provide new markets.

Britain and the Yorubaland in their 1888 Treaty tied trade to the development of the Yorubaland. The parties envisaged and understood that development of the Yorubaland was necessary for Britain to reap trade benefits. That treaty vision holds true today and would be revived by the Yorubaland Act. The coast of the Yorubaland is an underdeveloped marine economy that presents enormous market potential for Britain. The coast is 500km long and the sea is deep. The Yoruba Party estimates that the volume of trade to Britain from that source alone could yield up to £15 billion a year with a capital outlay of £1 billion spread over 5 years. This capital outlay is much cheaper than the cost of the Rwanda Asylum policy where each asylum seeker sent to Rwanda will cost  £2 million with no trade benefits whatsoever to Britain. Rwanda was not even a colony of Britain.

Immigration benefits to Britain of the Yorubaland Act

Britain is desperate to curtail immigration. Development of the Yorubaland will curtail immigration.

Development of the marine economy on the coast of the Yorubaland would involve a wide range of economic sectors including but not limited to medicine, engineering, technology, tourism, town planning, renewable energy, maritime transportation, security, infrastructure development, and so on. Self-evidently, thousands and thousands of local professional and non-professional workers would be required for the enormous task of creating the marine economy. It follows that fewer and fewer people, if any at all, would be available to emigrate to Britain from the Yorubaland. In other words, the Yorubaland Act has the real potential of curtailing immigration to Britain. 

Vote for the Yoruba Party to restore sovereignty to the Yorubaland, create new overseas markets for Britain and curtail immigration.
 

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