Yoruba Criminals Supporting Killer Herdsmen In South West For Money – Gani Adams

The Aare Ona-Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Ganiu Adams, has revealed that some Yoruba criminal elements were conniving with herdsmen to perpetrate kidnapping for ransom, armed robbery and other crimes in the South West.

Chief Adams, who spoke on Arise TV’s The Morning Show on Tuesday,  disclosed that the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) which he leads, had arrested many Yoruba people working with herdsmen.

“We discovered that our people are working with these herdsmen,they give them information on who to kidnap or attack.

“When we arrested some herdsmen who kidnap for ransom along the Ilesha-Akure road, we also arrested some of their Yoruba accomplices. You will discover that about 27 percent of the criminals are our own people working with them,” he stated.

The OPC leader also spoke about his relationship with the Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, saying he had no problem with him but that politicians have hijacked the “Yoruba liberation struggle.”

He said: “I said we have been highly infiltrated. That comes to what happened this morning when we woke up, we realized that Sunday Igboho’s house had been burnt. Who are the people that burnt Sunday Igboho’s house in Ibadan? Not in the forest. So, the issue of the braveness of Sunday Igboho, some wicked politicians in Yorubaland are trying to use it to destroy their political enemies.

“How can somebody (insult) Iba Gani Adams that has been in the trenches for the past 28 years. I started this struggle at the age of 23 years and OPC was not on ground then. We started OPC in 1994 and I risked everything for Yorubaland. My total years in detention was 17 and half months. I lost everything I had in this life.

“How can somebody now coming out, when we have another brave person in Yoruba land, Sunday Igboho, to come out and use his bravery of one day to destroy somebody who has been in the struggle for 28 years. The Yoruba people always destroy their warriors at the end of the day. In history, about 78 percent of their warriors were destroyed…”

He also revealed that the events leading to the attack on the house of the leader of Fulani in Igangan community of Oyo State was motivated by partisan politics.

“We study what is behind all these scenario, we gathered intelligence about what happened between Wednesday and Saturday and we concluded that those people who want  2023 have infiltrated the struggle. And those people who want to be in power by all means have infiltrated it.

“It’s now becoming a two-party affair on the issue of Yoruba liberation struggle. That is why I said two days ago that the Yoruba nation has to be well coordinated,’ he warned.