Igboho: People are working behind the scenes, says Sanwo-Olu

Victoria Edeme

24 July 2021

The Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has stated that people are ” working behind the scenes” concerning the arrest and trial of Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.

The governor made this known while addressing the Press at the Polling Unit 019 Ward 08, Ikoyi II, where he cast his vote during the Local Government/Council Areas election on Saturday.

PUNCH Online was live at the venue and our correspondent on ground asked the governor about the presumed silence of South West governors on the arrest of Igboho.

In response, the governor explained that “people” are working behind the scenes, stating that the case doesn’t have to be a public conversation.

“These are very difficult times for all of us. I can assure you that people are working behind the scenes.

“At occasions like this, it’s not by how many Press people you call.

“I’m aware that a lot of people have responses that they are doing quietly and privately and it doesn’t have to be a public conversation.”

The PUNCH earlier reported that the 48-year-old activist was arrested on Monday, July 19, 2021, by the International Criminal Police Organisation at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, Republic of Benin.

Igboho was arrested with his Germany-based wife, Ropo, at the airport while they reportedly tried to catch a flight to Germany around 8 pm on Monday.

Five days after the arrest and planned extradition of Yoruba Nation agitator, the six governors in the South-West geopolitical zone of Nigeria have kept mum over the matter.

The governors are Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Gboyega Oyetola (Osun), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Dapo Abiodun (Ogun), and Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos).

Efforts to get the comments of Akeredolu, who is the Chairman of South-West Governors’ Forum, proved abortive as the Ondo State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo, neither took several calls to his line nor replied a text message sent to his line by our correspondent.

BigDick70inch:
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Jostoman:
Yes we know that Nigeria government are working silently to get back to Nigeria by fire by force but God will disappoint them because igboho is not a criminal, FG government silent about the issue really shows that they are really working behind the scene.

SWDude:
Sanwo-Olu could say this just to act like he cares. He did something similar during #EndSARS. We are watching.

OneTemplate:


Sanwo Olu does not have to say zilch. He could simply remain silent because speaking up only brings him in conflict with the FG.

Speaking up to say there are efforts being put together for Igboho means Sanwo Olu cares more about the wellbeing of Igboho than about getting in anyone's bad books for defying Buhari, Malami and the ruling Fulani cabal.

Every just, fair and equitable Yoruba I know is fed up of the open nepotism, ethnocentric mien and insensitive double standards of the Government currently in charge of Nigeria.

Most people who would have been inclined to be silent previously are now understanding that evil thrives when good men do nothing.


It is an insult to all well-meaning Nigerians for Northerners like EL Rufai to justify and make excuses for the unchecked proliferation of Northern banditry, mass kidnapping, national insecurity and rampant terrorism while seeing nothing wrong with how the FG focuses all attention on Igboho and Kanu alone.

To the best of my knowledge,no Northerner has openly challenged Buhari to be a fair, just and equitable President to all Nigerians and deliver solutions, like State Policing and restructuring, unequivocal backing for ban of open grazing etal.

I.e potential solutions that will ensure the agitation of the likes of Igboho will disappear once the problems causing insecurity, mayhem, loss of lives and loss of livelihoods are resolved.

Southern leaders will resort to self-help a lot more in the face of the obvious and fatally costly discrimination and open bias being displayed by the Buhari government.