An elder statesman, Prince Tunji Adeoye, has condemned the comment of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu over the gruesome murder of Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of Pa Reuben Fasoranti.
The elder statesman Adeoye, in a statement released on behalf of Rescue Mission Group (RMG) of Oyo State, through its spokesman, Marufh Bello, said the statement by Tinubu was unbecoming of a true son of Yoruba.
A national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, had earlier wondered, when he visited the father of the deceased in Akure, how on earth could one ascribe the killing of Olakunrin to Fulani herdsmen, asking “where are cows” at the scene of the murder?
“Of course, cows do not have to be at the scene of the murder before it is concluded that the killing must have been carried out by the Fulani herdsmen going by the ever increasing records of atrocities being committed in the south west by these members of a section of our country,” Prince Adeoye said.
Speaking further, Prince Adeoye maintained that without being tribal or political regarding the killing of Funke Olakunrin, there was every reason to link the death to the audacious Fulani herdsmen who had infiltrated the south west considering the incessant terrors foisted on our people and the dead silence of President Muhammadu Buhari who had refused to make any serious statement or take any step to stop the nefarious activities of the Fulanis.
Prince Adeoye said that Senator Bola Ahmed should first think as a Yoruba man before “any other consideration whether political or nationalistic,” stressing that he should not sacrifice his home for any personal ambition.
The statement further reads: “Going by memory lane, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu was one of the firebrands in the days of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO). But his exploits, gestures and utterances of late do not point to him as a man with a genuine cause in the days of the struggle and shortly after the enthronement of democratic governance, of which he is a beneficiary till date.
“Considering the above, among others, and particularly his outburst like that of a desperado on the death of Funke Olakunrin, Bola Tinubu lacks the basic credential to portray himself as the leader of the Yoruba race.”
