Eviction of Fulani herdsmen notice: Give Tinubu administration more time, YCE pleads with Igboho

The Yoruba Council of Elders, or YCE, has begged Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, the agitator for the Yoruba Nation, to wait to issue eviction notices to Fulani herders in the zone until the six states in the South West have seen the results of the newly established Ministry of Livestock.

The elders’ argument rested on Sunday Igboho’s recent appeal to drive some of the Fulani herders’ criminal elements from the six Yoruba states.

By means of their Secretary General Chief Oladipo Oyewole, the elders communicated with Vanguard.
He said, “The YCE is fully aware of Sunday Igboho’s active position on his call for the entire Southwest to be freed from the grasp of Fulani jihadists and Fulani hegemony.”

“But the Constitution of Nigeria protects the interests of all Nigerians in the land. Be that as it is, the YCE would want to give PBAT’s administration a chance to normalise this national issue of the recently established Ministry of Livestock Development and powers vested in the Ministry as pronounced by the Presidency.”

“We feel that Igboho and indeed all self-determination groups and agitators should wait to see its effectiveness before executing forceful eviction and ejection of Fulanis from Yoruba soil”.
“Therefore we, as children of Oduduwa, must be weary of not losing our integrity of acting with the common sense upon which we base our actions.

Bola Tinubu is the President of the Federal Republic. So, YCE will not want to do anything to breed trouble for his administration without seeing a grave cause”.

“That administration has put machinery in place to address this problem. We must await the direction the machinery of Government will take. If indeed it does not protect the interest of Yorubaland then we all will seek a solution to a common problem and seek ways for a common solution.”

“Sunday Igboho means well but he must wait to see the implementation of the new directive.”
“As for security of lives and property, let the Governors (who are the No. 1 Security Officers) beef up their security apparatus to ensure safety. It is indeed their responsibility to do so, ” YCE concluded.