Popular Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has stormed Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State.
According to The Punch, residents said Igboho came to the town and was received hundreds of youths at the Igangan Town Hall.
Addressing the youths and other supporters, the activist said, “What is happening will not be limited to this place, we will drive out Fulani from entire Yorubaland. They want to be killing us. We will not accept this.”
One of the residents, Tajudeen Oke, said that Igboho insisted that Seriki must leave the town.
This, according to Igboho, was due to the fact that many people fingered Seriki to be behind the insecurity in the area.
Before the arrival of Igboho, some youths have been reported to have made bonfire on the streets.
There had been an earlier report that there was growing tension in Igangan and other parts of the Ibarapa area of Oyo State on Friday morning at the quit notice issued to herdsmen in the area expires on Friday.
This is as a result of the frustration by the incessant killings, kidnappings, and destruction of farms allegedly carried out by herdsmen in Ibarapaland. The activist on last Friday stormed the Fulani settlements in Igangan Ibarapa North Local Government Area and asked them to leave within seven days.
He accused the Fulani community in the area of masterminding abductions, killings, and other criminal activities in the area.
However, the Oyo State Police Command had warned residents of the state against engaging in any act of lawlessness and violence in the state.
The new state Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, gave the warning in a statement issued on Thursday by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mr. Olugbenga Fadeyi.
The police disclosed that four police were injured when Igboho visited the place and the Fulani were alleged to have waylaid farmers returning from their farms the same Friday night and four of them were hacked.
Makinde on Wednesday in a state broadcast condemned the ultimatum given to the Fulani to leave while warning those behind the threat to restrain or be ready to face the wrath of the law.
