The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Aare Gani Adams, on
Tuesday, says the Yoruba people are wont to destroy their warriors with their
own hands.
Adams said some Yoruba politicians are now using popular
Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, well known as Sunday Igboho, to malign
him and destroy all that he had built in the last 28 years by calling him “a
coward”.
“On the braveness of Sunday Igboho, some wicked politicians
in Yorubaland have stepped in to use him to destroy their enemies and to even
call them names. How can somebody call Iba Gani Adams that has been in the
trenches for the past 28 years a coward? the chieftain said on Arise TV’s The
Morning Show
Recall that Igboho issued and enforced 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.
Speaking on Tuesday, Adams said Igboho has the genuine
interest of the Yoruba people at heart but some politicians have infiltrated
the struggle to “malign me and dent my image”.
He said, “I started this struggle at the age of 23 years
when OPU (Oodua Peoples Union) has not been on ground. We started OPU in 1994
and I risked everything for Yorubaland. I have been to jail for three times.
The total of my detention was 17 and a half months. I lost everything I had in
this life. I started from the scratch in 2008 and I didn’t surrender because my
people have to be liberated.
“How can somebody now come out – Sunday Igboho –and use his
braveness of one day to destroy somebody who has been in the struggle for 28
years. There is a more than meets the eye.
“Yoruba always destroy their warrior at the end of the day.
About 78 per cent of those that fought for the people, they destroyed them. We
know what happened to Abiola. A lot of the people who asked him to declare
himself as a president ran away from him when he was arrested. It was just a
few people in NADECO that stood by MKO Abiola.”
Adams said the Yoruba nation has to be well-coordinated in
its liberation struggle.
“Why should you say
I’m a coward by now? I have five children and the whole of my family (members)
are still living with Nigerian passports. I am a convener of Oodua Progressives
Union.
“Ten years ago, my people in Europe told me to get European
Passport; they wanted to do it for me within two years. I told them they will
use it against me in the struggle of Nigeria and they will say I can’t fight
for them again. So, I rejected it and I and my family (members) are still
living with Nigerian passports and still living in the country.”
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