Etim Effiong
Activist, Sunday Adeyemo, alias Sunday Igboho, has described the actions of Yoruba leaders as disappointing as he experienced a thorn in the hands of the leaders in his pursuit to curb criminal herdsmen activities in Yoruba land.
Speaking on Wednesday at a virtual meeting titled: “Townhall with Yoruba in Diaspora,” Igboho stated that the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi upset the Yoruba by visiting President Muhammadu Buhari over the herdsmen crisis.
Igboho has been asking the Yoruba to remove killer herdsmen from their midst, noting that the leaders were reluctant to do so.
After his meeting with the president, the Ooni had urged the activist not to take laws into his hands.
“When Ooni met with Buhari over the herdsmen issue, Ooni should have told Buhari the truth but he did not. When Ooni returned, he started tackling me to leave the remaining task to the government to finish. You can imagine that kind of talk.
“Alaafin of Oyo has asked me to meet him over the matter. Alaafin should have been the one invited to meet Buhari but since the Ooni was invited, he should be bold to tell the president the whole truth and make the demands of the Yoruba people known to him.
“The Ooni disappointed himself. Some politicians are behind Ooni’s latest move. He invited me to his palace, but I refused to go.
“I would have gone if he had represented us well, but he did not. I will not honour any monarch who does not cooperate with me. Enough is enough, the Fulani have done enough,” he said.
In a scathing remark, he labelled a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu; and Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde as “Fulani slaves.”
He said: “Yoruba people need not fear Fulani herdsmen anymore. The leaders should show themselves as up to the task. We should deliver ourselves from the enslavement of the Fulani people.
“Tinubu and his people are Fulani slaves, they do not have anything good to offer. All the politicians do not have anything to offer Yoruba people. They are all Fulani slaves, they can’t talk.”