Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday
Igboho has dared Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde to arrest him for ordering
Fulani herdsmen to leave Ibarapa.
Igboho had last Friday issued seven-day ultimatum to Fulani
herdsmen in Igangan, Ibarapa North LG to leave the area over incessant killings
of Yoruba people.
Makinde had countered him in a broadcast, saying everyone
has the right to live anywhere in Oyo State.
Igboho, on Friday, after the expiration of the ultimatum
addressed thousands of supporters in Igangan and again ordered Fulani herdsmen
to leave.
But Makinde, on Friday asked the new Commissioner of Police
in Oyo, CP Ngozi Onadeko, to arrest and treat those igniting ethnic tension in
the state as criminals.
Makinde said that attempt to fuel security tension under any
guise that would threaten the corporate vision of Nigeria would not be
tolerated by his administration.
He said that his government was not against any ethic group,
but was determined to flushing out criminal elements anywhere in the state.
He stressed that the Hausa/Fulani ethnic group residing in
the state was not his government’s target, but hoodlums, bandits, irrespective
of their tribes and religion.
But Igboho replied Makinde, daring him to arrest him, saying
he would not believe his threat until he sent soldiers and police to arrest
him.
“You can bring all Fulanis to Yorubaland, if you like, you
unfortunate ones. It will not be well with you. You are threatening me in my
fatherland with Fulanis. You will not prosper.
“Is it the Fulani’s that make the laws of the land? Have you
forgotten when you were ‘bankrolling’ me when you wanted to become Governor and
all I did for you all during the elections, and now you dare threaten me?
“Well, I don’t believe that you are serious with your
threats yet, until you bring all the soldiers and policemen to arrest me in my
house, before I know you are serious. You are all fools.”
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GSM need to be diplomatic on this issue. The leadership and people of Igangan have a voice and governor need to understand their plight. Arrest of Ighoho may cause more mayhem as no evidence that the Fulani's are not actually abhorring or sympathetic with the criminal elements from their ethnic group
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