Yoruba freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho has asked all Fulani people to leave the South-West, vowing to smoke them out from all the forests in the region very soon.
Igboho stated this in his fresh eviction notice to Fulanis in an interview anchored by his spokesman, Mr Oluyomi Koiki. In the video of the interview, which has gone viral, the activist said that he does not give an order without monitoring it to ensure its compliance.
Igboho, who spoke Yoruba, said that the agitation for Yoruba nation is non-negotiable, adding that no Jupiter can stop the emergence of a Yoruba republic.
“How can six million people be commanding about 250 million of other Nigerians. Marriage is not by force. We can’t live with you again. The Yoruba nation is a vehicle of salvation and I want all Yoruba to board the vehicle and have their seats,” he said.
Reiterating that the agitation for the Yoruba nation has got to a point of no return, he said: “How can we go back when we are almost in our destination. Those who have not joined us should do so now because there’s no election come 2023. Yoruba will go.”
He called on Yoruba youths not to insult their elders traditional rulers.
He said, “Please, don’t insult our elders again. I don’t want anyone to cast aspersions to our traditional rulers that they have collected money. No, don’t do that. Even, if they were given money, it’s part of the commonwealth that was stolen.
“Don’t fight the police or any security agents. Let’s do our rally peacefully. Tell President Buhari, if he doesn’t understand Yoruba, tell him in the English Language that we don’t want bandits in our zone again. Work has begun already and as from Monday, I will begin combing all forests in Yoruba land.”
“I want all Fulani on Yoruba land to leave. I, myself will monitor compliance with the eviction notice. I don’t issue an order without ensuring compliance. From Monday, we don’t want to hear of any kidnapping in Yorubaland again. I will show them the stuff Yoruba people are made of.”
“We will tell them there is a clear distinction between Yoruba and Fulani. All these weapons they are brandishing, we will collect them with ease. We will blow ‘wind’ into all the forests in Yoruba land. If we don’t prove to these people who we are now, they will be encroaching on our lands when we achieve our Yoruba nation.”
He said he had not collected any money from anyone, daring anyone who claimed to have given him money on the agitation to come forward and say it out now.
“If you know you have given me money that I should shelve Yoruba nation struggle, come out and say it now. No amount of money can stop me from going ahead with this struggle. You can’t kill me. Kill who? Throw a bomb at me? If you throw a bomb, I, too, will send thunder,” he said.
On his alleged kidnap, Igboho said, “No one can kidnap me. I know you Yoruba people love me. I’m not missing. We are almost there. All those who go out with me to rallies, you are safe. No policeman can arrest you. We are asking for our rights. No one can intimidate us in our fatherland. No governor can say we must not have a rally in his state.
“We are in Yoruba land. It will be okay if Britain or the United Nations come to our aid to help us actualize it, if not we will never back down. It’s possible some political hangers-on will align with politicians because of the benefits they get from them, don’t mind them; they are too minute to stop us.”
