The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, has ordered the arrest of Sunday Adeyemo alias Sunday Igboho, over an eviction ultimatum at the expiration of which he threatened to lead others to kill Fulani in Oyo State.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, confirmed this in an interview with BBC Hausa service.
Shehu, according to Solacenews.com, said on BBC Hausa service that the IGP told him on the phone that order had been given to the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Ngozi Onadeko, to arrest Igboho immediately and transfer him to Abuja.
Igboho, in a face-to-face encounter with Sariki Fulani in Oyo, had told him to “seriously” deliver his message of eviction order within seven days to all Fulani in the state, particularly in Ibarapa Local Government Area, attributing the spate of banditry and killings in the state to them.
The ethnic activist was in Igangan in the Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State on Friday when he and his supporters reportedly stormed the Fulani settlement in the town to eject the Seriki Fulani, Salihu Abdukadir, and some other herdsmen in fulfilment of his threat.
Sunday Igboho had last week issued a seven-day quit notice to the Seriki and his associates threatening that his return would be war, if they did not leave.
Also, governor Seyi Makinde had ordered the Commissioner of Police to treat anyone fuelling ethnic tension to destabilize Oyo State as criminals.
The governor, in an earlier report published in The DEFENDER, told Igboho that he would not allow him and anyone else to hide under the guise of protecting Yoruba interests to cause tension in his state.
