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SUNDAY IGBOHO: The making of a freedom fighter
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By Clifford Ndujihe, Political Editor
UNTIL Friday, January 15, 2021, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, was arguably an unknown entity outside the South-West zone of Nigeria. Even in the South-West, his popularity was not widespread.
However, all that changed on January 15. No thanks to the recurring herdsmen menace in many parts of the country especially the South-West, Middle-Belt, South-South, and South-East that has left sad and teary tales on the lips of victims.
On that historic January 15, Sunday Igboho and his supporters took the battle to end the ‘Fulani’ herdsmen crisis on their shoulders, thus adding their names to the January 15 stories.
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If you agree with scientists who say nature abhors vacuum, you will appreciate the emergence of Sunday “Igboho” Adeyemo in the cause of halting the assault, raping, maiming, kidnapping and killing of indigenes of South-West Nigeria by elements believed to be of Fulani extraction.
Those who wondered how Iba Gani Adams became a candidate, and was installed Ààre Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland by Alaafin of Oyó, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, will likely wonder how Sunday Igboho is emerging as the answer to the vacancy of state action against the marauders.
In a recent Op-ed, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), describes Sunday Igboho as a political enforcer, which some say is an undisguised and unnecessary euphemism for a political thug.