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If you see through this write up you will see that this is a subliminal attempt to paint Sunday as an ex thug and murderer.

Basically, it's a brilliant attempt to dilute and destroy the perception that Sunday is a freedom fighter.

Personally, it matters little what Sunday did or did not do in his past, what matters is that Buhari's Boys are slaughtering Yoruba people every week and he has stood up against it.

That is what matters most

Ojodu is a man I respect immensely but what he wrote up there is a betrayal of the many Yoruba people that have been killed by the marauding criminal herders.

In totality his write up is a betrayal of his people and amounts to balderdash.

It’s common to hear that yorubas are serial betrayers but I didn’t think they’ll betray themselves so early against a common enemy.

This Babafemi Ojudu is working for who? Your guess is as good as mine. Nigerians are just so dense. Particularly the Yorubas. Forget the messenger and let's focus on the message. Is it right that Fulani herdsmen, marauders or whatever you want to call them will turn to kidnapping of both young and old and raping of women in Yoruba land? A whole 15 women raped in Yoruba land by herdsmen. If someone like Tinubu that claims to love Yoruba so much has been silent. Even Osinbajo has been quiet, then what are we talking about? If it was one of his children that was raped or killed would he be quiet?

When they pay MC Oluomo and Sunday to scatter elections and empower them, they don't remember then. It's only when these people turn to thorns in their flesh that they start written editorials up and down.

Tinubu is the lord and savior. Perhaps all Yorubas should bow down and worship him.

Anyway, enough said.

Very illuminating...there are some good things about Tinubu afterall

Freestainworld:
This story is not complete because they didn't tell us how much Tinubu paid Igboho during the whole saga, you can't tell me he did all that for free, Tinubu just became the highest bidder that night, the reason Sunday Igboho backed down.

A part of this piece said, tinubu gave ighoho 'a golden handshake', I guess you don't know what that means.

sammirano:
Story. Them don start

OJUDU is one of the campaign manager for Tinubu in 2023, so am not Surprise.

festacman:
Certain things are better kept in closet and revealed in memoirs down the line of time. There is only one Jagaban, no doubt!

However, I guess Femi Ojudu went this far to prove that though Sunday Igboho can be resolute and fearless in pursuit of his objectives, he can also succumb to voice of reason and 'action of reason', so to speak. Good to know. I hope stakeholders are listening.

And please no persecuting Sunday Igboho after this whole wahala because his status is now more than a thug but that of BALOGUN GENERAL of Yorubaland.

Stunning how time and events unbalance equation and change scheme of things so fast!

Hes even the real Aare Ona Kakanfo

The one there is mtcheeew

Freestainworld:
This story is not complete because they didn't tell us how much Tinubu paid Igboho during the whole saga, you can't tell me he did all that for free, Tinubu just became the highest bidder that night, the reason Sunday Igboho backed down.

The writer was careful enough to delineate tinubu and ACN from all form of electoral malpractice.

OlawaleBammie:
Hes even the real Aare Ona Kakanfo

The one there is mtcheeew

Gani Adams won't be happy with you.

festacman:
Gani Adams won't be happy with you.

Abeg make he go sidan jare, who his happiness EPP??

Freestainworld:
This story is not complete because they didn't tell us how much Tinubu paid Igboho during the whole saga, you can't tell me he did all that for free, Tinubu just became the highest bidder that night, the reason Sunday Igboho backed down.

You missed the "Golden handshake" part or you're too young to understand that?

Freestainworld:
This story is not complete because they didn't tell us how much Tinubu paid Igboho during the whole saga, you can't tell me he did all that for free, Tinubu just became the highest bidder that night, the reason Sunday Igboho backed down.

He was settled. But he was only offered money after he agreed not to hurt people. It was good diplomacy.

Freestainworld:
This story is not complete because they didn't tell us how much Tinubu paid Igboho during the whole saga, you can't tell me he did all that for free, Tinubu just became the highest bidder that night, the reason Sunday Igboho backed down.

Common man!!! You don't expect him to say a transaction took place with Tinubu and the warlord because the other party will take it up and it is even criminal to admit you paid political thug in an election.

This shouldn't have been released ...now we know it's Tinubu that made Igboho a rich man and now we also know Tinubu is behind him at the moment ...

The Femi Ojodu we know is second in command to Lai. In those year, nobody know Sunday Igboho, not even people from igangan. They should perish with their lies.

Everybody have history of yesterday/yesteryear. We are all growing up in our chosen human endeavors.

Sunday Igboho has metamorphosed into being the face of Yoruba struggles against territorial invaders who are making lives unbearable on our fatherland.

Whatever is the agenda of this write up, our view of Sunday Igboho remains as freedom fighter.

nosiebaba:
Tinubu don do shit sha

Smiles ... Depends on what u call shit, if it's good shit or bad ...

nosiebaba:
Tinubu don do shit sha

Smiles ... Depends on what u call shit, if it's good shit or bad shittt ...

LiesSlayer007:
Baba Adedibu na werey ooo Baba wey tell Ladoja weda he fity comot him cloth fight for market,Ladoja say lailai,Baba tell ladoja say he neva ready for politics

Is like na cartels de rule naija oo

LiesSlayer007:
Baba Adedibu na werey ooo Baba wey tell Ladoja weda he fity comot him cloth fight for market,Ladoja say lailai,Baba tell ladoja say he neva ready for politics

Is like na cartels de rule naija oo

seunmsg:
WTF!!!
Baba Adedibu na mad man I swear

That’s exactly what baba will say and I’m even reading it in his voice.

Babafemi Ojudu who wrote this is a snitch and can’t be trusted.

If Igboho asked and agreed with him to keep the encounter a SECRET...why tell the tales?

This is not right. An agreement should be an agreement. This is why some people take blood oath.

Babafemi Ojudu should not have narrated this encounter with Sunday Igboho. If I was Igboho, I would never trust or have anything to do with this man again. He is a betrayer.

If you read in-between the lines, you can see how how Tunubu rigged election norting more. That is why he went thugs and Agberu to remain in southwest.

gotnel:
Everybody have history of yesterday/yesteryear. We are all growing up in our chosen human endeavors.

Sunday Igboho has metamorphosed into being the face of Yoruba struggles against territorial invaders who are making lives unbearable on our fatherland.

Whatever is the agenda of this write up, our view of Sunday Igboho remains as freedom fighter.

Agreed...despite how this man tried to paint Sunday Igboho as a thug and uneducated. Igboho has earned my respect.

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. It was in 2009. The Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin ordered a rerun in a number of polling units in the election between Segun Oni of PDP and Dr Kayode Fayemi of ACN.

Oni had in the main election and the election petition tribunal that followed been declared winner of the gubernatorial contest. Our party , ACN contested this , hence the declaration of a rerun.

The election which came three months after the Appeal Court judgement was like war. The PDP ruling at the Federal level did not want to lose Ekiti while the opposition ACN led and financed by Bola Ahmed Tinubu wanted to take Ekiti by all means.

A few days to the election,we got an intelligence report that the PDP big wigs had perfected a plan to unleash thugs recruited from across Yoruba land on Ekiti. The plan was to kill and maim as many as possible, snatch ballot boxes and win by any means possible.

Tinubu summoned me to Lagos and said Femi,"I have conducted a scientific opinion poll. You people can win this election. The only snag however is they are deploying state security as well as thugs against you. State security men we can handle ( and he did creatively handled them ) but how do you handle thugs?"

I then suggested we dissuade them by engagement and inducements. After all they are in the business only for the money and not for ideological reasons.

We reached out to both Ade Basket in Akure and Fada Geri in Ondo. Both were dreaded in political circles. We had a series of meetings with them and were able squeeze an agreement with them that they will not make themselves available to PDP for hire. I got them to even sign documents for me that they were going to stay off Ekiti elections.

The biggest headache for us then was Sunday Igboho who we learnt has been hired and paid by a Senator from Osun to come and cause mayhem in Ekiti. Tinubu instructed we must get him at all cost.

Six days to the election we began our search for him. Eventually we met someone who had his number. I put a call through to him and he agreed to meet with me in Ibadan. We scheduled an appointment and had a meeting at a small hotel not far from Premier Hotel.

Tinubu , I told him , has sent me to him that he will like to have a meeting with him. He said he will love to meet him as he has heard a lot of good things about him too. The problem he said is he is PDP and not ACN. I said that precisely is the reason why he wanted to meet with him. He asked if I could keep this a secret, I said why not . Papa Adedibu , and our Osun Senator , he said must not learn about his meeting Tinubu. I told him there is no way they will know except it leaks from his side.

He agreed to a meeting on Thursday preceding the election. I reported back to Tinubu who then relocated from his base in Lagos to Sunview Hotel in Akure. Igboho drove down alone at about 10.00 pm. I and Tinubu had a dialogue with him.

“Igboho,”!Tinubu said, “ I have heard a lot about your bravery . The Ekiti people have suffered too long under the rule of PDP. They are looking for change. I learnt you have been hired to make this impossible. I have invited you to plead with you to allow the poll to be conducted peacefully. If after that the PDP wins fine. If the ACN wins, all well and good”.

Tinubu went on and on lecturing him on the beauty of democracy and unencumbered electoral process. By the time Tinubu finished with him, he became sober and contrite. “ Baba”, he said, “ I have heard you and I am pleased with what you have said. Whatever you want me to do I will do even though I have collected money from the other side” .

This was the extent Tinubu went to secure Ekiti for his party, ACN. Most of this the candidate, Fayemi , himself was not even aware of.

Tinubu then beckoned me to follow him to the bedroom of the suit he occupied in the hotel. “ Femi this guy appear sincere. It does appear we have dissuaded him.“

“Thank you Baba” Igboho said with a smile across his face as soon as he received a golden handshake for agreeing to not kill in Ekiti as they had planned.

He then said that he will be in Ekiti on the eve of the election but when it is 2.00 am I should put a call through to him. He will put his phone on speaker and I should tell him I am a police AIG and that the police has discovered his presence in Ekiti and will be raiding in 30 minutes time. With that call he will tell his minders he can no longer stay. He will pack his boys and their lethal weapons and leave town.

Tinubu ordered food and drink for him. He will touch neither. He however overtime became comfortable in our midst and regaled us with several anecdotes from his career as a political enforcer. One particular anecdote stayed locked up in my memory till today because it was so funny.

According to Igboho he went through the tutelage of Chief Adedibu, the strong man of Ibadan politics. He said he was one of his most reliable and trusted thugs. At a point in their relationship, Adedibu , he said began to suspect he was getting too powerful and independent. Adedibu , he narrated, then invited him to a meeting and told him he will like him to run for the chairmanship of a local government.

He said he knew this was an attempt by Adedibu to bench him and he therefore told Adedibu that he was not educated , not able to speak English and could therefore not be chairman of a local government.

Adedibu , he said , looked at him and barked an order STAND UP! He stood up. “SIT DOWN!” He sat down. Adedibu then said “and you claim not to be educated. Whatever is left we shall add it unto you”.

A week before the election, we had reserved and paid for all the rooms in all the hotels in Ekiti. The money ran into several millions. Tinubu, as usual, paid for this. The strategy was to ensure no thug or any undesirable element had a place to stay in the state. Security men and INEC officials had to appeal to me, sometimes through Tinubu, to release some rooms to them to stay. With this we knew who was staying where. And we closely monitored them and their activities.

When Igboho and his band of 50 thugs arrived Ado Ekiti that Friday we were able to monitor them till they were taken to be accommodated over night in government house due to lack of hotel accommodation in the state.

This was the situation when at 2:00 am I did exactly what Igboho instructed me to do and he and his men fled town. Two hours after leaving I got a call from him. They did head count and found out two of their men were missing. They found out the two had gone to town in search of women. Igboho pleaded with me to help retrieve them and get them out of town following morning.

At about 5.00 am that morning I picked them up in front of the Fire Station at Fajuyi Park , took them to my house and by 6.00 am got a driver to take them out of town.
We had the re-run elections. It wasn’t entirely peaceful. But thuggery and violence was largely reduced.

This was my encounter with Sunday Adeyemo alias Sunday Igboho , lately crowned a hero in Yoruba land , by the reign of terror by herders and bandits.

He has that occasional conscience you can appeal to. Let those who can rein in the herders do so and make the forests and highways safe again. Let farmers be able to carry out their occupation without fear of kidnap , murder and rape. Let us find a modern and permanent solution to this issue of itinerant herding that pitches a group of Nigerians against the other. Let us not ethnicize criminality. A criminal is a criminal and a crime is a crime whether perpetrated by Fulani, Yoruba , Igbo, Ijaw , Junkun, Bachama or Ibariba.

We should do everything possible to stave off this crisis and stop beating the drums of war before it reaches a crescendo.

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Stewpid write up.

Zero relevance to fulani terrorism.

luvmijeje:
He has that occasional conscience you can appeal to. Let those who can rein in the herders do so and make the forests and highways safe again. Let farmers be able to carry out their occupation without fear of kidnap , murder and rape. Let us find a modern and permanent solution to this issue of itinerant herding that pitches a group of Nigerians against the other. Let us not ethnicize criminality. A criminal is a criminal and a crime is a crime whether perpetrated by Fulani, Yoruba , Igbo, Ijaw , Junkun, Bachama or Ibariba.

The bolded above is what blinded you into thinking this is not a Pr job and simultaneously a smear job. Let me disabuse your mind with three question.

Is the person who wrote the article not in the ruling party? Are they not part of the government turning blind eyes to what's going on? If the people who are in the ruling party don't have solution, is it you or me that will have solution?

Being in the government is completely different to being able to enforce ones point of view. How may people from the south have the power to influence security matters. It is entirely the yoruba way to show the mailed fist and to speak of rapprochement at the same time. The yoruba will always present you eith a way to change your mind gracefully and not appear defeated. Yorubas are first a political people before being a military people. They always make time their friend. While talks go on they are not sitting on their hands.

Read it against the backdrop I have provided and you will see the carrot and stick. Anyone who expects the yoruba to hurtle into violence without calculating cost and possibilities is either not yoruba or is a young blood yet to learn the ways of this ancient civilization.

lamentor78:
Have you ever seen a freedom fighter coming from an ex banker or ex CEO ,it must be someone on the street that understand the pain of people , so you guys should stop telling us Igboho is a political thug ,he is now more that that ....

Sadly, he is the only one who stood up when men were being counted. It's not when war is threatened that you begin to ask whether he was born out of wedlock.

gotnel:
Everybody have history of yesterday/yesteryear. We are all growing up in our chosen human endeavors.

Sunday Igboho has metamorphosed into being the face of Yoruba struggles against territorial invaders who are making lives unbearable on our fatherland.

Whatever is the agenda of this write up, our view of Sunday Igboho remains as freedom fighter.

Precisely!

These are Tinubu tactics using backdoor to further surrender Yoruba to Fulani.

is this ojodu a wise man?.has he not revealed more than necessary.has he not got himself into confessing he impersonated a police aig.

i dey tell you

seunmsg:
WTF!!!
Baba Adedibu na mad man I swear

densiks:
Ojodu is a man I respect immensely but what he wrote up there is a betrayal of the many Yoruba people that have been killed by the marauding criminal herders.

In totality his write up is a betrayal of his people and amounts to balderdash.

It’s common to hear that yorubas are serial betrayers but I didn’t think they’ll betray themselves so early against a common enemy.

It's pathetic, very pathetic bro. You see iota of reason yorubas lack homogeneity ... When it comes to native intelligence, give it to the north, reason they classify others as infidels...not for anything but the kind of bonds that exist between them. Can anyone beat the kind of secret relationship amongst their bandit,boko boys, politicians and their religious imams, they almost same cos they complement each other... ojudu is one of the old fool...