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The pan Yoruba organisation, Afenifere, has declared that the campaigns of the Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, was in response to the terrorist activities of Fulani herdsmen in the country and that it was cruel that, “the Federal Government which was unable to defend itself of terrorism against Igboho and for which it was handed N20billion in aggravated damages, would turn around that Igboho received less than N200million to sponsor terrorism since 2013 when Igboho had never been heard of and when Major General Muhammad Buhari, as former Military Head of State then was campaigning for the Sharia as a law of general application in Nigeria”
The declaration of the foremost Yoruba socio-cultural organization , was reacting to the claim of Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice on on Friday, that Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, has links with major sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria.
In a statement, the Secretary-General of Afenifere, Sola Ebiseni, maintined that Malami’s claim that the Sunday Igboho has 43 accounts in different banks into which some financiers of Igboho have consistently deposited funds . showed that the Federal Government of Nigeria was hell-bent on destroying Igboho.
The group rather recalled how President Muhammadu Buhari, before 2015 was the one who displayed extremism by calling for the application of Sharia law in Nigeria.
The statement reads in part: “The Federal Government with its Attorney-General will not stop amusing themselves with illogical reasoning on the nationality question. It’s expected that the AGF would be guided by the standard of a reasonable man, which is a central test in legal inquiry, before addressing the public.
“This time around, the team set up by him, at a time he is hell-bent on nailing Igboho, has satisfied his emotional expectations, but in a most unreasonable and tenuous manner, by suggesting that Sunday Igboho, a Yoruba nation campaigner, would be on the same sponsorship with Boko Haram.
“Only someone with pathological hatred for Igboho and insult to the Yoruba nation will find a common bed for Yoruba nation agitation and Boko Haram, which is known to act in tandem with the Fulani herdsmen whose terrorist acts were responsible for Igboho’s campaigns.
“It’s of amusing cruelty that the Federal Government which was unable to defend itself of terrorism against Igboho and for which it was handed N20billion in aggravated damages, would turn around that Igboho received less than N200million to sponsor terrorism since 2013 when Igboho had never been heard of and when Major General Muhammad Buhari, as former Military Head of State then was campaigning for the Sharia as a law of general application in Nigeria.
“The Federal Government and its security agencies should better pay the damages awarded against them, apologize to Igboho and his household for the acts of terrorism committed against the peaceful campaigner.
“The Federal Government may continue to play the ostrich, the whole world knows those who enacted, engineered, and continue to promote terrorism in Nigeria.”
