Since the beginning of this year, Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has gained national prominence, after taking a hardline approach to the age-long Fulani Herdsmen crisis, in the South-western part of Nigeria. This crude approach to the melee, coupled with his history as a warlord has turned him to the messiah of the people. Igboho has been providing premium contents for the media platforms, with the unfiltered interviews that are granted in abundance. Everybody seems to have access to him, and he has a way of making statements that might shock electricity itself. This is good for business!

But at the end of the day, what will his efforts amount to? I am sorry to say that it will all be in futility at the end of the day. Very soon, the media platforms giving him audience will make a report about him, and there will be disappointing responses from their audience. From that point, the reporters know it is time to move on and look for something else to milk. This is the hard reality in the media.

Igboho may have good intentions, especially if we are to close our eyes to his political history. I don't blame those doubting him. Politics in Nigeria is more of 'the more you look, the less you see'. The players of the game are desperately out for the fulfilment of their self-interests.

Igboho has been making giant strides, and he has able to spark certain conversations even some governors are scared of raising, to avoid getting the big stick from the Federal Government. But this problem will never go away overnight. In Nigeria, when an issue is enmeshed in politics, it could be hard to find a solution. Sometimes, a way-out never comes. Look that the issue of Boko Haram terrorism, for example, it has been with us for over a decade. Arrests and prosecutions are being made here and there, and we don't know their sponsors. The story of the advent of Boko Haram depends on who you ask. Both members of the major parties, APC and PDP have different accounts that favour them, and the political brickbat never ends.

The Boko Haram insurgency has grown into a massive business enterprise, with the service chiefs alleged to be players in the market. Every year, huge amounts of money are allocated to the prosecution of the war, and a large chunk ends up in private pockets. The junior soldiers pay the supreme price with their lives at the war fronts. The spokesman of a South African private military company, once boasted that the security operatives in Nigeria, can end the prolonged war, but politics has derailed the battle.

The same political interference has affected the herders-farmers clashes. Buhari has his narrative, which he has been telling the international community, not minding if they believe him or not. He believes the fall-out of Libyan crisis involving the ouster and death of Muammar Gaddafi led to the proliferation of small and light arms in Nigeria, which are now being wielded by some criminal elements. According to him, a conventional herdsman only holds a stick and cutlass for cutting foliage, to feed his cattle. Probably due to his Fulani root, he only sees the herders as the oppressed and the farmers in their host communities as oppressors who are not interested in a unified Nigeria.

The host communities also have a political angle to the quagmire. They believe there is an insidious Fulani agenda aimed at conquering their territories surreptitiously. All manners of crimes ranging from murder, robbery, destruction of properties, rape, physical assault and any evil you can ever think of, have been linked to the herdsmen. The failure of the president to declare them terrorists like he termed IPOB, has been misconstrued as support for their actions.

As people continue to lose their properties and lives in the South-west to the marauding herders, the ruling elites in Yorubaland have been loudly quiet, and this isn't unusual. We have been here before.

When Igboho appeared to be pushing too hard, the Southwest governors gave the angry people a political gift, by banning open grazing and telling the herders to register with the state. Since the announcement was made, open grazing has continued like nothing ever happen. Nothing has changed. The governors are avoiding the issue for political reasons. There is an understanding that the South-western part of Nigeria might produce the next president in 2023 by an unwritten agreement.

Frontline Yoruba politicians like the governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu are reportedly jostling for the number one position. They need to be in the good books of the north to achieve that dream. If you speak against the Fulani Herdsmen, you will lose any present or future goodwill of the north which has the political numbers. Some of these governors are also boys of Tinubu. Any action taken by them could jeopardize his political chances in 2023.

All these accounts for why there is no real strong political figure backing Igboho. They all act like he doesn't exist, and he seems to be getting frustrated. He has now resorted to calling them out. Igboho can't do much on his own. Already, some northerners believe Igboho is part of the grand plan of some faceless politicians to maliciously win power in the next presidential election, using tribalism and disunity. Only God knows the real truth!

In the town of Ayete, Ibarapaland, another renegade identified as Iskilu Wakili, a Fulani, has reportedly set up no-cross zones and he also fancies an open confrontation with Igboho. Igboho is aware of Wakili's existence and he is ready for a showdown as long as Governor Seyi Makinde sanctions it. These are clear features of a failed state, where the government can't maintain the monopoly of the use of force.

The long term solution to the challenge is ranching, but it appears the discussions on it have died. The herders need to be educated against their archaic method of grazing and migration, with strict penalties attached to defaulters not ready to resist change. The present administration is not interested in this route, but shortcuts. Indeed, there are no shortcuts. Any shortcut will also suspend the problem temporarily and never solve it.

On how the Igboho saga will end, the carrot and stick approach might be adopted. It is either Igboho is bought by the Federal Government with an irresistible offer to make him stay silent, and sheath his swords, or he is labelled a criminal and arrested.

I strongly suspect that with the turn of events, ethnic crises might erupt as intolerance is already brewing up. The Federal Government will pretend to arrest the chaos by going after the arrowheads, and Igboho falls.

Nothing is impossible in Nigeria. If you think the heavens will fall if Igboho is arrested, remember the 20th of October, 2020. Nigerian soldiers opened fire on defenceless EndSARS protesters at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos State. Many were injured, others died and many still missing. The mystery behind the bloody event is yet to be unravelled to date.

By Osayimwen Osahon George

Source: https://villagetowncrier..com/2021/02/how-sunday-igboho-chapter-will-be.html

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The Boko Haram insurgency has grown into a massive business enterprise, with the service chiefs alleged to be players in the market. Every year, huge amounts of money are allocated to the prosecution of the war, and a large chunk ends up in private pockets. The junior soldiers pay the supreme price with their lives at the war fronts.

The long term solution to the challenge is ranching, but it appears the discussions on it have died. The herders need to be educated against their archaic method of grazing and migration, with strict penalties attached to defaulters not ready to resist change. The present administration is not interested in this route, but shortcuts. Indeed, there are no shortcuts. Any shortcut will also suspend the problem temporarily and never solve it.

But at the end of the day, what will his efforts amount to? I am sorry to say that it will all be in futility at the end of the day. Very soon, the media platforms giving him audience will make a report about him, and there will be disappointing responses from their audience. From that point, the reporters know it is time to move on and look for something else to milk. This is the hard reality in the media.

Nothing more to add.

God bless the writer

Sad truth. Heaven won't fall if both Sunday Igboho or Nnamdi Kanu are killed today. There may be protests and violent reactions here and there but after few months, it will fizzle out like every rightful protest before it. Some of the cowardly citizenry (whom these guys are risking their lives to protect) would blame and mock them in death with "I told you so" commentaries. Others would protest online, create trending hashtags and end it there. Some of the cowardly youths who are mostly stupid, would make comic memes and cringy distasteful nonsense they call comedy videos to mock them in the name of humour. In all of these, the smart Fulani quietly make their advances claiming land, and augmenting it with banditry, kidnapping, robbery, assassinations, rustling and racketeering. Their subjugation of Gobir (Sokoto) and other parts of the Hausa-north were carefully planned and done in small but effective steps till the Hausas got under their subjugation. Presently, they are doing same with Dogon Farmers in Mali, The Mossis in Burkina Faso and making gains in the political confusion of Central African Republic.

Not in support of the expansionist and criminal elements of the Fulanis like the clown who made a comment above mine but there are positive points that can be made out of the incursions into the middle belt and southern territories perpetrated by landless, nomadic criminal elements of the Fulanis.

In the era of peace and comfort, weak men dominate the society from the leaders to the followers and when threat shows up next door, they are jolted into the shocking reality they were never prepared for.

The present menace created by these criminal elements exposed a few things:

1. The unreliability of politicians. Only a deluded fool will expect the Federal Government or the State Government to curb these menace. Over time, they have proven to be largely ineffective as politicians are about their survival, and interest. The poor locals are practically on their own on this one. Able bodied men should mobilize to protect themselves and take back what belongs to them.

2. Traditional ruling class filled with weaklings and spineless zombies. One can argue that the hostilities and rivalries that characterized precolonial societies in Nigeria raised courageous and battle-tested men. Traditional rulers were selected from these men. The relative comfort of today contributes to men that lack courage, integrity, political jobbers, career criminals occupying traditional leadership positions. When the Fulani threat showed up, most can stand for their people for the fear of the president who has the expansionist mentality of his Fulani ancestors. He is contributing his own "quota" in this expansionist ideology by acting deaf to the cries of those brutalized by these criminals, and engaging in other distractive schemes that covertly support their agenda

Well, the writer deserves a right to have his or her opinion

However, I disagree at the insinuation that the Fulani herdsmen crises is somehow a well disguised political issue that needs a form of political solution. I think that notion is highly dismissive of the pain suffered by thousands of people across Nigeria in the hands of criminal elements amongst the fulani herdsmen.

Thus, silencing Igboho would not bring an end to the confrontation with Fulani herdsmen across South West or even Southern Nigeria in general, it won't stop a looming ethnic tension or a possible civil unrest that might lead to civil war.

It Will only delay the inevitable.

Buhari needs to come out with a solution that will solve the problem not look for ways to silence the voices of the activists Fighting for their people because the voices of these activists are the voices of the Masses.

If the government couldn't arrest the leaders of bandits in the north,instead gift them cash,vehicles, and motor bikes, they can't do shishi to Sunday Igboho.

If they bring their carrot he will collect and eat it just Like the bandits collect and eat but still intensify their unslaught ,and heaven did not fall. So will Igboho do same and heaven will not fall.

He has succeeded in clearing many of the criminal enclave of this Fulanis,even if he stops at this junction, he has written his name in the golden book of history.

Iamgrey5:
Well, the writer deserves a right to have his or her opinion

However, I disagree at the insinuation that the Fulani herdsmen crises is somehow a well disguised political issue that needs a form of political solution. I think that notion is highly dismissive of the pain suffered by thousands of people across Nigeria in the hands of criminals elements amongst the fulani herdsmen.

Thus, silencing Igboho would not bring an end to the confrontation with Fulani herdsmen across South West or even Southern Nigeria in general, it won't stop a looming ethnic tension or a possible civil unrest that might lead to civil war.

It Will only delay the inevitable.

Buhari needs to come out with a solution that will solve the problem not look for ways to silence the voices of the activists Fighting for their people because the voices of these activists are the voices of the Masses.

At bolded,

That's the hard truth some Nigerians dont want to hear.

Herdsmen problem can only be solved politically... If it's not political, FG must have done something about it long time, same as Southern governor.

There is no substantial political will yet from FG, Southern Governors

Is Atiku not concerned about the unnecessary killings abi why is Tinubu doing I don't care on the matter?

And the summary of all that was written is "give up and become a caliphate slave, hopefully, one day Nigeria will get better"

Slave mentality is a terminal disease

Skepticus:
Sad truth. Heaven won't fall if both Sunday Igboho or Nnamdi Kanu are killed today. There may be protests and violent reactions here and there but after few months, it will fizzle out like every rightful protest before it. Some of the cowardly citizenry (whom these guys are risking their lives to protect) would blame and mock them in death with "I told you so" commentaries. Others would protest online, create trending hashtags and end it there. Some of the cowardly youths who are mostly stupid, would make comic memes and cringy distasteful nonsense they call comedy videos to mock them in the name of humour. In all of these, the smart Fulani quietly make their advances claiming land, and augmenting it with banditry, kidnapping, robbery, assassinations, rustling and racketeering. Their subjugation of Gobir (Sokoto) and other parts of the Hausa-north were carefully planned and done in small but effective steps till the Hausas got under their subjugation. Presently, they are doing same with Dogon Farmers in Mali, The Mossis in Burkina Faso and making gains in the political confusion of Central African Republic.

Not in support of the expansionist and criminal elements of the Fulanis like the clown who made a comment above mine but there are positive points that can be made out of the incursions into the middle belt and southern territories perpetrated by landless, nomadic criminal elements of the Fulanis.

In the era of peace and comfort, weak men dominate the society from the leaders to the followers and when threat shows up next door, they are jolted into the shocking reality they were never prepared for.

The present menace created by these criminal elements exposed a few things:

1. The unreliability of politicians. Only a deluded fool will expect the Federal Government or the State Government to curb these menace. Over time, they have proven to be largely ineffective as politicians are about their survival, and interest. The poor locals are practically on their own on this one. Able bodied men should mobilize to protect themselves and take back what belongs to them.

2. Traditional ruling class filled with weaklings and spineless zombies. One can argue that the hostilities and rivalries that characterized precolonial societies in Nigeria raised courageous and battle-tested men. Traditional rulers were selected from these men. The relative comfort of today contributes to men that lack courage, integrity, political jobbers, career criminals occupying traditional leadership positions. When the Fulani threat showed up, most can stand for their people for the fear of the president who has the expansionist mentality of his Fulani ancestors. He is contributing his own "quota" in this expansionist ideology by acting deaf to the cries of those brutalized by these criminals, and engaging in other distractive schemes that covertly support their agenda

Please remove Nnamdi Kanụ from your nonsense.
He is in a league of his own.
Don't ever compare him to IGBOho

I didn't read the long epistle...

The niggers up there shouting political solution, what exactly do you guys mean? Explain please.

Buhari's body language towards the Nigerian nation since Ibb disgraced him out of office has been of bitterness against the state and it's citizens.

To get back at you, he enmeshed himself in religious and ethnic bigotry to spite any government in power except Abacha to further divide the people.

Alimajiri of like minds loved him like kilode. He loved them too as he never condemned the hoodlums that killed southern corpers and other innocent citizens in 2011.

As soon he won in 2015, his teeming alimajiri brethren even from outside the country shouted hallelujah.


The only solution I can proffer...

Since the north has large expanse of land, let them create ranches for all the animals, well equipped with modern day infrastructure.

Southerners who deal on cattles would go to North to buy the cows or order online.

Southerners ranch the cows or kill them and store for future sales.

Open grazing eradicated. Fulani embraces education and becomes civil hopefully. Peace returns.

This kind epistle for this morning

Igboho will one day be bundled to ICC to answer for his crimes against humanity

Skepticus:
Sad truth. [s]Heaven won't fall if both Sunday Igboho or Nnamdi Kanu are killed today[/s]. There may be protests and violent reactions here and there but after few months, it will fizzle out like every rightful protest before it. Some of the cowardly citizenry (whom these guys are risking their lives to protect) would blame and mock them in death with "I told you so" commentaries. Others would protest online, create trending hashtags and end it there. Some of the cowardly youths who are mostly stupid, would make comic memes and cringy distasteful nonsense they call comedy videos to mock them in the name of humour. In all of these, the smart Fulani quietly make their advances claiming land, and augmenting it with banditry, kidnapping, robbery, assassinations, rustling and racketeering. Their subjugation of Gobir (Sokoto) and other parts of the Hausa-north were carefully planned and done in small but effective steps till the Hausas got under their subjugation. Presently, they are doing same with Dogon Farmers in Mali, The Mossis in Burkina Faso and making gains in the political confusion of Central African Republic.

Not in support of the expansionist and criminal elements of the Fulanis like the clown who made a comment above mine but there are positive points that can be made out of the incursions into the middle belt and southern territories perpetrated by landless, nomadic criminal elements of the Fulanis.

In the era of peace and comfort, weak men dominate the society from the leaders to the followers and when threat shows up next door, they are jolted into the shocking reality they were never prepared for.

The present menace created by these criminal elements exposed a few things:

1. The unreliability of politicians. Only a deluded fool will expect the Federal Government or the State Government to curb these menace. Over time, they have proven to be largely ineffective as politicians are about their survival, and interest. The poor locals are practically on their own on this one. Able bodied men should mobilize to protect themselves and take back what belongs to them.

2. Traditional ruling class filled with weaklings and spineless zombies. One can argue that the hostilities and rivalries that characterized precolonial societies in Nigeria raised courageous and battle-tested men. Traditional rulers were selected from these men. The relative comfort of today contributes to men that lack courage, integrity, political jobbers, career criminals occupying traditional leadership positions. When the Fulani threat showed up, most can stand for their people for the fear of the president who has the expansionist mentality of his Fulani ancestors. He is contributing his own "quota" in this expansionist ideology by acting deaf to the cries of those brutalized by these criminals, and engaging in other distractive schemes that covertly support their agenda

You've just wasted these minutes of your life to write rubbish

..... and they Yoruba people keep mentioning IGBOHO in same sentence with KANU

THEY CANT DO WITHOUT MEASURING AND COMPETING

IGBOS ARE THE YARDSTICK OF YORUBA PEOPLE

..... THE ENVY CONTINUES

J O S E.

Them don start to pray bad prayers already yoruba people sef

I wonder if Wakili the fulani warlord and his type would read all this rubbish while they lay your mother down, hopefully your political solution would work before the 4th herder cums,

A people are ravaging west africa, you are looking for political solutions, you see those Edo women that have been chased out of their farms? If only they knew their children were cowards, shout out to ESN