Sunday Igboho Storms Igangan After Gunmen Attack On Community

A Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has visited Igangan town in Oyo State.

Igangan, which is a town in Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, came under a brutal attack from gunmen suspected to be herdsmen.

In the early morning attack on Sunday, some persons were shot dead while buildings including the palace of the monarch of the town, a petrol station and several vehicles were torched.

Igboho’s spokesman, Yomi Koiki, had said on Sunday that his boss would not go and fight in the town while saying it was the responsibility of the governor to protect his people.

But in a video posted on Koiki’s page on Facebook, THE WHISTLER saw some motorcyclists hailing Igboho who was driven in a white Toyota Hilux into the town on Monday evening.

As the residents hailed him, he was seen acknowledging cheers from them from the vehicle where he was .

Residents told our correspondent that Igboho just went round the town to see the level of destruction for himself and went back immediately.

A resident, Taiwo Adigun, told our correspondent that Igboho went round and the people were happy that he came to sympathise with them.

Adigun said, ” Igboho came yesterday, we did not even expect him to come. Some okada riders who saw him rode after his convoy and hailed him.

“We still need him to help us in any way possible to prevent a reocurence of such attack.”

Igboho had visited the town in January and issued a seven-day-ultimatum to Seriki Abdukadir Salihu.

He went back to the town despite the threat from Governor Seyi Makinde on the expiration of the ultimatum and was received by a large number of angryyouths.

After his visit, the settlement of the Seriki was razed by irate youths.