The camp of Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho has debunked the claim that the Yoruba Nation agitator is ready to drop the struggle for an Oodua Nation.
Reacting to Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed
Akanbi’s offer to intervene in the face-off between government and Chief Sunday
Igboho, Olayomi Koiki, his spoke person said there had been no contact between
the monarch and the agitator lately.
Also, he insisted that Igboho has also not dropped his
agitation for a Yoruba nation. He said any claim to the contrary is a lie.
Koiki,
said he was not aware of any contact lately between Oba Akanbi and Igboho. But
he admitted that Igboho visited the oba way back in 2018 to reciprocate a
similar one by the traditional ruler to the activist.
He said it was on that occasion at the
Oluwo’s palace that the photograph of Igboho prostrating for the oba, now
trending on social media, was taken.
Meanwhile, Oba Akanbi said: “It is only Igboho that
can speak for himself now. Nobody can speak for him. If he wants to continue
fighting the way he has been fighting, let him go ahead.
If he wants his normal life back, let him
go for peace. It is either he goes for peace or continues with ‘catch me if you
can,’ with the DSS. The option is there for Igboho, but I won’t advise him to
talk or say a word until peace is made. To return his life back to normal is my
desire. Anybody that wants to lead the agitation can go ahead. It is Igboho
that has something to protect. He has a life. He is our son, we won’t allow
something bad to happen to him. He has a name.
“Sunday
Igboho does not deal with some of those people who say they are speaking for
him. Why didn’t you ask them when they spoke with Igboho? It is unfortunate
that the majority of them are pushing him. They will just continue to push him
until they kill him. To the extent that the DSS could claim responsibility that
they attacked his house. They (DSS), said: ‘We went to Igboho’s house and we
killed two people. I think they just want to push him into trouble. Even before
the current agitations, he was not poor. He was only misinformed and he has
realised this. Did you hear anything from his mouth? Did you hear his voice
disputing what I said?
“Government is beyond what they are
seeing, what they are saying. Let them come out with where Igboho said this or
that. Let them produce Igboho’s recording. I would advise Igboho not to say
anything against the government. He should have his life to protect. He should
keep quiet till we solve the present problem. Those people pushing him cannot
do anything for him, rather when he gets into trouble, they will all run away
and leave him to solve his problems. They have pushed him into trouble. He has
a house, and he can’t go there. His wife is in trouble. His people are in a
problem. His family members are in trouble. He is now running like a fugitive.
He has been declared wanted. His passport has been seized.
“Those people pushing him, why can’t they
come to the street and continue from where he stopped? Those who are speaking
for him right now are not his closest aides. Some of them speaking for him are
using him to make money. I told him that some of the people making noise were
just pushing him. He did certain things that were beyond him, especially the
idea of going to open the border. No government would allow that. Some of them
are trying to justify their action by comparing Igboho with the bandits in the
North. Do the bandits have a house? Do they have a name?
“Igboho has a house; he has exotic cars in
his compound. He had been made a long time ago. Some of these people pushing
him just want to make money. We will speak to the government to forgive him.
This same government honoured MKO Abiola. Those who did bad things to Abiola
did not honour him. Abiola was not on good terms with Buhari, yet it was the
same Buhari that honoured him.
The Igbo elders may not speak about Nnamdi
Kanu and plead on his behalf and assure the government that they would tell him
to stop some of the things he is doing.
“But we as Yoruba elders would not allow things to get
worse. What we are doing right now is to find a way of getting him out of the
trouble.
“He has a house, he can’t live in it. He has a car, he
can’t ride it. His German passport has been seized. If the Igbo do not talk
about the activities of Kanu, we would talk about our own before they start
killing people in Yorubaland. Would you say how unknown gunmen have been
killing people in the South East is good? Is that what we want in Yorubaland?
“We will draw his attention to it that
‘young man, where he is going is not good. I think the media hype entered
Igboho’s head and those who are making money from the Diaspora are not telling
him the truth.”
