Akinyemi's book has generated controversy because it claims that Igbo people once invaded Ile-Ife in modern-day Osun State.
If the government does not remove them from schools within 14 days, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have instructed all indigenous people of Southeastern Nigeria, including IPOB members, to burn every copy of Sola Akinyemi's book, "Fundamentals of Civic Education for Basic 8."
The author of the book referred to a few historical personalities as "courageous people" on page 38.
In the list of heroes and heroines in the book, the author included Moremi of Ife, Efunroye Tinubu, Bayajida, Amina of Zaria, and Jaja of Opobo. She also listed some historical acts they carried out at various points in their lives.
Akinyemi remarked that Moremi Ajasoro of Ile-Ife was crucial in the defeat of the "Igbos who always came to capture her people as slaves" on the same page.
He stated that Moremi of Ife, or Moremi Ajasoro as he was most often known, was from Offa. She was a 12th-century figure. She was wed to Ife's (then Oyo's) King Oranmiyan.
"In her day, her neighborhood faced a significant issue. The Igbo invasions, which were always intended to seize her people as slaves, were the issue. She made the decision to try at all costs to resolve this issue out of worry. She consented to being captured by the enemy, and their monarch married her as a result of her attractiveness.
"While she was there, she stole all of their secrets, ran away, and returned to Ile-Ife, where she gave her people the knowledge they required to beat the adversaries. The adversaries were ultimately vanquished, and she was reinstated to her husband King Oranmiyan of Ife (Oyo).
Reacting to the content of the book, IPOB through it's Media and public secretary, Emma Powerful said in a statement issued on Tuesday:
The book is"evil and distorted history book", "All schools in the Alaigbo (South East) should reject that book and must not allow it to be sold to school children."
The book contains false labelling of Southeastern people as invaders and troublemakers.
"The current Minister of Education, a tribalist, and the Yoruba author are masterminding an ethnic hatred against Ndigbo by distorting history in the Civic Education subject.
"For the Nigerian Ministry of Education to approve such ethnic hate-based textbooks that describe Ndi Igbo as invaders and troublemakers is very disappointing and unfortunate.
"In the history of Nigeria, there is no record that Ndigbo has invaded nor attempted to conquer any other tribe, now or in the past. Ndigbo has never had a history of invading other tribes.
"But because of hatred against the Igbo tribe, the Ministry of Education under the leadership of Yoruba cabals have introduced a book in primary school describing Ndigbo as troublemakers and invaders. This is not only wicked but also to brainwash non-Igbo children to hate Ndigbo.
"We demand the removal of such distorted history books from Nigerian schools. We equally demand that the Ministry of Education and the author of the book organize a public debate and lecture Nigerians and the world on this false history of Igbo's invasion of Ife kingdom.
"Moreso, we demand that educators, the State Ministry of Education, headmasters and headmistresses, and proprietors of Igbo extraction lead a petition to demand the removal of this ethnic hate-based book from the education curriculum.
"In the event that the government of Nigeria and her education ministry refuse to remove the book from all their schools, then Ndigbo would abolish such an evil book from schools in the Eastern Region.
"At the expiration of 14 days from the release of this press statement, if the government does not withdraw the treacherous book titled "Fundamentals of Civic Education for Basic 8 (JSS 2) authored by traitor "Sola Akinyemi", we order Ndigbo both young and old, big and small to locate the books in our region, the Eastern Region and burn them.
"Again, every IPOB member must help search for this evil and distorted history book and burn every copy found. All schools in the Alaigbo should reject that book and must not allow it to be sold to school children. Igbo parents everywhere in Nigeria must not buy such books that seek us against other tribes.
"In fact, we call on Ndigbo to reject every book that is authored by Sola Akinyemi. All his books should be burned anywhere they are found in the East."
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