The Emir of Ilorin, Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari
Thursday said he prevented clash between
Yoruba and Fulani about two months ago. The emir who spoke this at the at the annual
national delegate conference of the Ilorin
Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU)
at Fufu in Ilorin South Local Government Area
said the war could have started off from his
domain before it was averted. He disclosed that the clash between the Yoruba
people and the Fulani herdsmen at Alapa area
in Asa local government in the Ilorin Emirate
was to trigger off the war before his
intervention. The clash which was said to begin with a fight
between a Fulani cattle rearer and a Yoruba
man in the Alapa area had reportedly
degenerated into a more dangerous violence in
which many people lost their lives in the area. The emir said that some people alleged that
after the death of a Yoruba man in the Fulani/
Yoruba man clash, members of the Oodua
Peoples Congress (OPC), a Yorruba militant
group were mobilised to attack the Fulani
people in the area the following day. He said that it was further alleged that after the
OPC members killed many of the Fulani
herdsmen, their wives and children they carried
away their cattle and disposed them off in
Ibadan. The monarch disclosed that this allegation
made a group of militants from the far north of
the country to mobilise themselves and
prepared to come to Ilorin to avenge the
killings of their Fulani kinsmen. He said that when he heard of this plan he
quickly intervened by explaining to the people
that the progenitor of the head of Ilorin Emirate
is from the Sokoto sultanate and that both the
Fulani and Yoruba people in the emirate are a
one people cohabitating without discrimination. Sulu-Gambari disclosed that what he said
discouraged the people to go ahead with their
vengeance mission and thanked God that his
intervention worked saying the reprisal attack
would have aggravated security problem of the
country. He said that the remaining Fulani herdsmen
who have been displaced after their huts were
burnt were put in a camp where he
volunteered N1m for their feeding alongside
the assistance the Kwara state government rendered.
thenationonlineng.net/new/i-prevented-clah-between-yoruba-and-fulanis-says-emir/

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explicit770: The emir said that some people alleged that
after the death of a Yoruba man in the Fulani/
Yoruba man clash, members of the Oodua
Peoples Congress (OPC), a Yorruba militant
group were mobilised to attack the Fulani
people in the area the following day. He said that it was further alleged that after the
OPC members killed many of the Fulani
herdsmen, their wives and children they carried
away their cattle and disposed them off in
Ibadan. The monarch disclosed that this allegation
made a group of militants from the far north of
the country to mobilise themselves and
prepared to come to Ilorin to avenge the
killings of their Fulani kinsmen.
thenationonlineng.net/new/i-prevented-clah-between-yoruba-and-fulanis-says-emir/

You should not have intervened. You will know there is a difference between Brain and Box

I am an OPC member. I hope you all know now. I do have an agenda. Ibos must leave Yoruba land.

Be Warned!

Ibo-Killer:
I am an OPC member. I hope you all know now. I do have an agenda. Ibos must leave Yoruba land.

Be Warned!

I pray you understand on time the consequence of your ignorance.