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  • Igboho: Gani Adams wants arsonists arrested

    Igboho: Gani Adams wants arsonists arrested

    The Aareonakakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, has asked the police to arrest of arsonists responsible for the fire at one of the houses of Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho.

    This is as the Oyo State Police Command said it was trailing the hoodlums who committed the act.

    The one-story building, situated in Ibadan, the state capital, was gutted by fire around 3am on Tuesday, damaging property that Igboho put at N50m.

    Igboho has been trending lately for issuing notice to quit to killer herdsmen in Oyo State.

    Meanwhile, the police said it received reports that hoodlums loaded in a bus and taxi were responsible for the arson.

    The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, in a statement said the arsonists reportedly shot into the air as they set fire to the house.

    The police statement reads partly, “The mini sitting room got burnt in the process.

    “Immediately the DPO Sanyo got wind of the incident, he contacted fire service while he also went to the scene. The fire was eventually put out. Investigation has commenced into the incident while the police is on the trail of the hoodlums.”

    In the same vein, the Oyo State Fire and Safety Services in a statement by the agency’s Director of Operations, Mr Adeleke Ismail, said the fire incident affected a set of sofa, a Plasma Television, an air conditioner and other items at the waiting room of the building.

    “Information made available to our agency indicated that the fire was as a result of arson, as an individual, who described himself as Mr. Wale and claimed to be an occupant of the building, informed our crew that there were sporadic gunshots in the area, after which fire broke out in the affected house,” the statement said.

    But Aare Gani Adams, in a statement on Tuesday, said failure to investigate the fire outbreak at Igboho’s house could heat up the polity.

    Adams, who condemned those behind the fire incident, said “the fire outbreak is an attempt to frustrate the young man.”

    He said, “It is unfortunate that some powerful individuals in the South-West are not happy with what is happening in the region.

    “The ugly incident speaks volumes of the spate of insecurity across the country. The government is in the best position to investigate the circumstances surrounding the ugly incident so that they will not overheat the polity.”

    He also commended the South-West governors for raising their voices against night and under-aged grazing across the region.

     

  • Igboho denies alleged deal with Tinubu, says Ojudu needs to take a mental health test

    Igboho denies alleged deal with Tinubu, says Ojudu needs to take a mental health test

    Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, has said he had no deal with national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu as alleged by Babafemi Ojudu, who is the Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President Muhammadu Buhari.

    Ojudu, in a now-deleted piece published on his Facebook page on Monday, had alleged that opposition politicians contracted Igboho to disrupt the 2009 Rerun Governorship Election in Ekiti State. Ojudu had claimed he and another top politician met with Igboho to shelve the plan and the latter agreed to stay off the election.

    However, speaking with journalists during a briefing at his residence in Ibadan on Tuesday following a fire incident at one his buildings in the Soka area of the state, Igboho said he had no dealing with Ojudu, adding that all the President’s aide said were lies.

    He said, “I have been hearing reports about a man called Femi Ojudu. I don’t know this man. He said the late Chief Adedibu contracted me in 2009 and we all know that Adedibu died in 2008. I think the man should be undergo a mental test because the late Chief Adedibu did not train me for any job and I was not close to the late Adedidu.

    “I have a relationship with my father, Senator Rasheed Ladoja and I have never betrayed him in the years I was his follower.

    “I don’t know Femi Ojodu and I didn’t have any business with him. All what he said are lies.”

    Igboho said no politician bankrolled him to issue and enforce a vacation order to the Fulani herdsmen accused of perpetrating crimes ranging from kidnappings, killings, rape to invasion of farmlands with their cattle in Igangan, Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State.

    Igboho, who said he was moved by the sufferings of the people of the town, lamented that politicians have began to politicise his intervention.

    Continuing, the activist said, “Politicians are now politicising the herdsmen issue to tarnish my image and make me weak.

    “Any politician who knows he paid me money to do all that I am doing should come out openly before the whole world. I was not bankrolled by anyone. My priority is for peace to reign in the land of my forefathers.”

    The activist also said it was disappointing that some Yoruba indigenes have started supporting the Fulani herdsmen to launch attacks against him but said “until all the Fulani herdsmen vacate the lands of our ancestors, that is when we won’t have issues”.

    “No politician paid me for all I am doing. The Fulani herdsmen have been killing, kidnapping and raping the people (of Igangan) but no government came to their rescue until my intervention. I owe the people a duty because I hail from the town, I even have the tribal mark of the people,” he added.

  • Gunshots fired by arsonists who burnt Igboho’s residence – Police

    Gunshots fired by arsonists who burnt Igboho’s residence – Police

    The Oyo State Police Command has said it received a report that the hoodlums who burnt the residence of popular Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, otherwise known as Sunday Igboho, loaded themselves in a bus and shot into the air several times.

    The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr Olugbenga Fadeyi, said this in a statement on Tuesday.

    Fadeyi noted that the police were told that the arsonists shot around the residence located in the Soka area of Ibadan, Oyo State, several times as they put fire to the house.

    He said the police had begun an investigation into the incident.

    The house was said to have been burnt at around 3 am on Tuesday after the power supply to the area was cut off.

    The police statement read, “At about 0620 hrs of today 26/01/2021, a report was received at the Santo Police Station that some unidentified hoodlums came to Sunday Igboho’s house at Soka area of Ibadan in a Hummer bus and Micra (taxi) firing sporadically, and set the house ablaze.

    “The mini sitting room got burnt in the process while the value of other properties has yet to be estimated.

    “Immediately the DPO Sanyo got wind of the incident, he contacted fire service while he also went to the scene for on the spot assessment.

    “The fire was eventually put out. An investigation has commenced into the incident while the police are on the trail of the hoodlums.”

  • Trending video: Igboho praises Obasanjo, Soyinka, other prominent Yoruba leaders for backing call for herders exit in Yorubaland

    Trending video: Igboho praises Obasanjo, Soyinka, other prominent Yoruba leaders for backing call for herders exit in Yorubaland

    Yoruba rights Activist, Sunday Adeyemo is popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said he is not intimidated by the threat of arrest.

    Igboho had asked herdsmen in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo to leave within seven days following reports of the killing of some indigenes.

    He had blamed herders and Fulanis, especially the Seriki Fulani, Saliu Kadri, for rising insecurity in the area.

    In a viral video, which surfaced Sunday afternoon, Igboho who spoke in Yoruba language expressed appreciation to prominent Yoruba leaders, especially traditional leaders for speaking up at this critical moment.

    Among the leader he mentioned include, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo; nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka; Alaafin of Oyo, Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III; Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi,; Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu; former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode; Aare Ona Kakanfo, Otunba Gani Adams, Dele Momodu, among others.

    Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo; nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka; Alaafin of Oyo; Ooni of Ife,; Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu;

    “They (herders) cannot chase us away from our land. Our eyes are opened, unless they want to kill us.”

    He admonished his supporters not to insult or ridicule Yoruba elders.

    “Don’t ridicule or abuse our leaders in the southwest, I swear with the gods of our land, they are also angry with the current situation and they are now speaking up.

    “You can see the way all the Yorubas and other prominent southwest leaders rose up in unison to say that you must not arrest Igboho.

    “It is quite sad that we are being maltreated, killed and our sisters/daughters get raped by killer herdsmen, we can’t go to farm or stream to carry out different activities. Enough is enough.”

  • Nnamdi Kanu sends strong warning to Oyo Police Commissioner, threatens to attack her family

    Nnamdi Kanu sends strong warning to Oyo Police Commissioner, threatens to attack her family

    Leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has sent strong warnings to the new Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Ngozi Onadeko, to be cautious in handling the matter involving an activist, Sunday Adeyemo alias Sunday Igboho, or her family will be attacked.

    Mrs Onadeko has been ordered by the Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Adamu to arrest Igboho who gave an eviction notice to herdsmen in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo state.

    The incident has threatened inter-tribal conflict in some parts of the country.

    In a Facebook post, Kanu urged the police commissioner to resign, else her family would face the might of IPOB.

    He said, “A warning to Mrs Ngozi Onadeko, the new Igbo Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command. You are an Igbo woman, so I expect you to be reasonable enough to know that Fulani IGP posted you to Oyo to superintend the arrest or possible killing of Yoruba youths in order to foment enmity between the East and the West at this critical juncture in the history of the liberation of all indigenous peoples across Nigeria, including you and your family.

    “I will advice you to resign honourably from your position as a certain Yoruba CP did in Abia State when he declined to order men under his command to open fire on IPOB protesters.

    “I am warning you not to do anything likely to jeopardise the safety or well-being of Sunday Ighoho otherwise you and your family will have the might of IPOB to contend with. The silly game you people always play in that #Zoo will no longer wash with us.

    “Suddenly Fulani have realised that appointing an Igbo woman as Police Commissioner is a good thing because they want to use you. Nothing should happen to Ighoho.”

  • Arresting Igboho will escalate tension, Fayose warns IGP, Makinde

    Arresting Igboho will escalate tension, Fayose warns IGP, Makinde

    Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has cautioned against any attempt to arrest Sunday Adeyemo, a youth activist popularly known as Sunday Igboho.

    He told Oyo governor Seyi Makinde and Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, that arresting Igboho would escalate tension in the South-West region.

    Recall that the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhumadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, during an interview with BBC Hausa, said IGP Adamu, had ordered the arrest of Igboho for giving Fulani in Oyo State an ultimatum to exit the state.

    Shehu also claimed that the IGP had ordered the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Ngozi Onadeko, to immediately transfer Igboho to Abuja after his arrest.

    Makinde had also directed Onadeko to arrest “persons found guilty of stoking ethnic tension”.

    However, Fayose wondered why Igboho would be arrested, saying northern governors had a dialogue with terrorists.

    He tweeted, “Gov Seyi Makinde should rather use dialogue and persuasion instead of escalating tension in his own State by calling for the arrest of Sunday Adeyemo or anyone at this time.

    “If FG and some governors could ‘dialogue’ with Boko Haram terrorists, Gov Makinde calling all stakeholders to a round-table discussion will not be a misplaced action.

    “Any attempt to arrest anyone will cause a further threat to the already fragile peace in the West and the country as a whole. Above all, any unchecked escalation may lead to a state of emergency.”

  • Sunday Igboho shuns Makinde, insists on herdsmen’s exit from Oyo communities

    Sunday Igboho shuns Makinde, insists on herdsmen’s exit from Oyo communities

    Chief Sunday Adeyemo, an agitator for Oodua Republic, better known as Sunday Igboho, on Friday visited Igangan, a town in the Ibarapa North Local Government area of Oyo State, insisting that Fulani people must leave Yorubaland.

    Recall Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has warned against actions that could incite peace in the state, saying that no individual or group has the right to initiate forceful eviction of the Fulanis from Oyo State.

    Igboho had last week visited a Fulani settlement in Igangan, where he gave them a seven-day ultimatum to leave the area.

    He accused the Fulani community in the area of masterminding abductions, killings, and other criminal activities in the area.

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    But on Friday, Igboho did not fight the Fulani residents of the state as speculated on social media, but he insisted that Fulani people should leave the state, and the entire Yorubaland if kidnapping continues.

    He said, “Fulani cannot take over our land from us. We own our land and we won’t allow anybody to take it from us. Some people are intimidating us but we won’t succumb to their threat. For the Fulani living here, we are not fighting them, if they can live with us peacefully. Our fear is about Fulani taking over our land, kidnapping and killing our people.

    “We will evict them from our land if they insist on kidnapping our people. I am assuring Yoruba people, especially the residents of Oyo State that there is no cause for alarm. What we started today does not only have to do with Oyo State; we are going to evict Fulani people in the entire Yorubaland.”