Yoruba group condemns attack on Igboho’s home

Yoruba diaspora socio-cultural organization, Yoruba Global Council, has condemned the ‘violent attack’ on the Ibadan residence of Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho on Thursday morning, describing the attack as “provocative, barbaric and a deliberate act to suppress the growing agitation for a Yoruba nation.”

In a statement issued by its spokesperson, Professor Lere Amusan, on Friday, the group said with the Directorate of State Services confirming it organised the attack under the guise of seeking stockpiled arms, it may not be out of order to conclude that, considering the desperation with which the attack was staged, Sunday Igboho could as well have been killed if found during the operation.

YGC said, “It is baffling that herders who are known to be custodians of illegal arms, even with Miyetti Allah its leadership, known to government, are not accused of stockpiling arms, rather, it is the peaceful Igboho government considers too dangerous and deserves such unwarranted ,violent sting operation where lives were lost.”

The group said it is obvious that the primary mission of government with the Thursday attack, in tandem with the greedy politicians in the South West, is to suppress the growing agitation for the sovereignty of the Yoruba states from the existing country Nigeria.

It said the attack on Igboho has exposed the fact that Nigeria is miles away from acceptable democratic norms, even as it warned on what it said could be the consequences of the attack on the fragile peace in the country.

While reaffirming its support for the agitation for a Yoruba nation, the YGC stressed that Igboho should not be seen as a threat by any sincere, progressive and democratic system.

It added that the world has become so civilised that it is needless to spill blood before agitating nations are granted sovereignty.

The YGC charged all Yoruba sons and daughters to come together to demonstrate transparent unity that will send the ultimate signal, “that securing Yoruba nation sovereignty is not negotiable.”